From the Wichita Eagle: Lawmakers want Brownback to address budget gap in speech

Gov. Sam Brownback addresses a joint session of the Kansas House and Senate during the annual State of the State speech in 2016. Some lawmakers are calling on him to lay out his vision for fixing the budget gap in his 2017 speech. (Jan. 12, 2016) Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, predicted Brownback will skirt the issue in his speech.

“I don’t have any faith whatsoever that the governor will offer any meaningful reforms or changes,” he said. “The governor has a record of making appeals to folks’ emotions rather than dealing with reality in his State of the State addresses, and I have no reason to expect any less of him tomorrow.”

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