New women's group aims to defeat Brownback, Kobach at the polls

[deminks]

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/04/5003097/newly-formed-group-urging-women.html

Drawing inspiration from the suffragette movement of the early 1900s, a group of women is encouraging women around the state to change the leadership in Topeka.

Women for Kansas, founded in Wichita, calls itself a grassroots effort that crosses political, racial, cultural and economic lines. Its goal is to stop what members say is the downward path of Kansas under the administration of Gov. Sam Brownback, then continue to encourage women to stay involved in issues important to them.

“Women’s voices seem to be getting lost in the discourse, especially in Kansas,” said Laura Dungan, one of the group’s core members. “I think we’re really going backward in many ways.”

The group is organizing a “Taking Back Kansas Convention” for the Labor Day weekend Aug. 29-31 at the Drury Plaza Broadview Hotel in Wichita. The event will include a public rally and a banquet. Speakers and celebrities are being lined up.

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Women for Kansas is unhappy about a host of issues under Brownback and the Kansas Legislature. Members cite budget cuts that have hurt seniors, new health care policies, adverse effects of Brownback’s tax policy on the middle class, concerns about funding for public schools as well as new policies that they say hurt teachers and what they perceive as attempts to endanger the checks-and-balances relationship between the courts and political leaders.

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Did you hear that, Koch bros? Grass roots. Real grass roots. Not astroturf. Real grass with roots.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Good. Those Kansas Republican guys are real Old Testament material.