Republican Gov. Sam Brownback Claims Fiscal Success Due To Democrat's Tax Hike

Would you buy a used car from this guy? 
Just askin'.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback answered questions from reporters last month after signing a bill changing how state Court of Appeals judges are selected at the Statehouse in Topeka. Under the new law, the governor will appoint the judges, subject to Senate confirmation.

Alan: "In March 2013, Brownback's Budget Director, Steve Anderson, offered his resignation after failing to identify a $2 billion error on a spreadsheet the governor had been using for several months in a presentation aimed at garnering support for his business-friendly fiscal policies. Brownback had used to spreadsheet to assert he was the first cost-cutting Kansas governor in 40 years, despite spending four hundred thousand dollars more in 2012 than the state had spent in 2010 under Democrat Mark Parkinson. Prior to working for the Brownback administration, Anderson worked for Americans For Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group founded by brothers David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch. The Koch brothers have been close political allies of Brownback's for nearly 20 years, and had the governor's approval to promote conservative challengers to Republican moderates already in office during the 2012 election cycle." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback

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Wrong address: Unexcused absences of candor and logic

April 6, 2013

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has been tapped to deliver the weekly Republican address today. Expanding on a popular theme, he will talk about how, while Washington remains a mess, GOP governors are straightening things out. 

Unfortunately, some of what Brownback says in his address (which was pre-recordedand embargoed until 5 a.m. Saturday) is exaggerated or misleading. 

Like this: “The year I became governor, the state began the fiscal year with just $876.05 in the bank — less than $1,000 and it projected a $500 million deficit. Two years later we had a $500 million ending balance — and did it without tax increases.” 

Not exactly. 

Kansas, like most states, was in deep trouble when Brownback took office in 2011. What lifted Kansas out of its hole was a one-cent sales tax that Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson signed into law and which took effect in July 2010. Brownback has benefited from that tax increase his entire term. He also is lobbying the Legislature to keep it in place, even though part of it is supposed to expire this July.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/06/4164714/unexcused-absences-of-candor-and.html#storylink=cpy