(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Aug. 24, 2015)
Amid the wreckage of Demofest, the Kansas Democratic Party’s summer convention in Wichita, Kansas Democrats did get some interesting and usable news for their upcoming legislative campaigns.
Now, a lot went wrong at that Wichita gathering which kicked into gear just hours after Democratic Party State Chairman Larry Meeker resigned his office, and the party faithful learned that no official business could be conducted because of a mess-up in officially notifying Democrat State Committee members of the convention they all knew about and attended.
But the good news for Democrats from the meeting was the release of a poll that showed Gov. Sam Brownback’s iconic elimination of Kansas income taxes on earnings of limited liability corporations and other small businesses including farm corporations is not popular.
Many suspected that the tax elimination, especially because it didn’t appear to spur an economic skyrocket in the state, isn’t popular.