Kansas GOP Supermajority Withholds Four MILLION Bucks From Guv Kelly

Republicans in Kansas are playing hardball and demand capitulation from the Guv in exchange for freeing up finances . . . Check-it:

"The Kansas Senate’s budget committee wants to hold $4 million hostage from the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly until state agencies proved they eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion jobs and programs as well as ended use of gender-affirming pronouns in signature blocks of employee emails . . . Senators responsible for the budget agreed to leverage $4 million in state funding to speed demise of DEI programs and staff within state government. A hold on the money would be lifted when the Kelly administration certified DEI had been terminated and when employees in the executive branch and universities in the Kansas Board of Regents system stopped listing preferred gender pronouns in email correspondence."

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Kansas Senate budget ties $4 million to ending DEI, use of preferred pronouns in emails

Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, pressed for clarification of a Senate amendment to the House's budget bill freezing $4 million for the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly until she certified no executive branch agency retained diversity, equity and inclusion programs or staff and until the governor affirmed executive branch workers were no longer attaching preferred pronouns to emails.