From the Wichita Eagle: Hutchinson legislator Patsy Terrell dies

Patsy Terrell embraces Jon Powell near the conclusion of the “Vote Yes for Fairness” watch party in 2012 in Hutchinson.Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, and others who had voted to override the veto went out to eat together and celebrate.

“She sat next to me,” Carmichael said. “We shared a basket of tacos. She was just so excited and exuberant that we had finally fixed the mess – or what she thought was the mess – that the governor had caused.

“That was one of the main things that Patsy wanted to do: straighten out the terrible tax mess,” he said. “We were all on top of the world. I would have never imagined that that was the last time I would see her.”

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