You grown-up guys out there are going to remember the times when, on a coat-and-tie outing, your girlfriend ordered chicken at the restaurant and you had your first notion that the outing wasn’t going to cost you a car payment.
Well, this memory so far appears to be about where Gov. Sam Brownback is this legislative session, early in the adventure of course, but so far, some little things are going his way.
He presented the Legislature with a budget for the upcoming two fiscal years, and so far, he probably has been surprised that in House Appropriations Committee subcommittees, and their counterparts in the Senate, most of the budget trimming he has proposed for dozens of state agencies has been approved.
That’s millions of dollars of trims in spending—and where there weren’t cuts, there weren’t increases, either—that he has apparently won.