(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers May 19, 2014)
We’re not gonna know and nobody is gonna tell, but that little $5 million line item veto by Gov. Sam Brownback last week on the budget bill looks a little…well, let’s say, as politically good as it gets.
Doesn’t it?
Just a pen-flip on the last bill of the 2014 session prevented pulling $5 million of funding from the Kansas Endowment for Youth (KEY), which this election year has to be a good thing, doesn’t it? That money—from the tobacco settlement fund—had been earmarked by the Legislature for the Kansas Bioscience Authority so it could continue to invest in new and expanding technical companies in the state.