Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, called this incident an “exemplification of why it is that amateurs should not be carrying guns.”
Read the full story at http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article128885479.html
Month: January 2017
From the Hutchinson News: Proposed bill would require Kansas students to use bathrooms of their birth gender
Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat and an attorney, said local school boards have been making decisions on restroom use and should be allowed to continue. Under the bill, the attorney general, potentially hundreds of miles away, would be intervening in local situations, he said.
Carmichael also raised concern over the financial impact, saying the bill contains no offsetting funds for the additional work that would be generated for the attorney general’s office.
“It would impose a financial burden on the attorney general’s office to investigate and prosecute those complaints,” Carmichael said.
Read the full story at http://www.hutchnews.com/b96dc43b-bffa-5d65-9ac5-e159c121c80f.html
From the Wichita Eagle: Kansas lawmaker leaves loaded weapon in committee room at Capitol
Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, called this incident an “exemplification of why it is that amateurs should not be carrying guns.”
Read the full story at http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article128885479.html
From the Kansas City Star: Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders
Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, who has introduced a bill to strip Kobach of his prosecutorial power, said Kobach has dramatically overstated the frequency of voter fraud during his tenure as Kansas’ secretary of state.
Read the full story at http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article128687579.html
From the Kansas City Star: Kansas’ Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump to investigate voter fraud
Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, who has introduced a bill to strip Kobach of his prosecutorial power, said Kobach has dramatically overstated the frequency of voter fraud during his tenure as secretary of state.
“He has claimed that voter fraud is rampant in this state, but he has little evidence to support that allegation,” Carmichael said. “He has brought charges now against, I believe, nine individuals, all of whom are United States citizens, most of whom are Republicans and the vast majority of them are white. And his office is now spending approximately a quarter of a million dollars a year prosecuting nine people and defending voting rights lawsuits.”
Read the full story at http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article128754474.html
From KSN: President Trump calling for voter fraud investigation has some Kansans asking questions
“Despite the claims of the Secretary of State (Kris Kobach) proven cases of voter fraud in Kansas are very limited. I have worked in voter election law for 15 to 20 years in this state, and I have looked hard to catch people who are cheating, and to find people who are cheating. People from both parties, citizens, non-citizens,” says Kansas Rep. John Carmichael, D – Wichita. “It is an infinitesimal number of people. In fact, the Secretary of State, when he testified in 2014, had identified 19 cases of double voting, and to date he has now filed prosecution in nine cases. Each of those prosecutions has been against United States citizens, none of whom have been immigrants.”
Read the full story at http://ksn.com/2017/01/25/president-trump-calling-for-voter-fraud-investigation-has-some-kansans-asking-questions/
From the Wichita Eagle: Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders
Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, who has introduced a bill to strip Kobach of his prosecutorial power, said Kobach has dramatically overstated the frequency of voter fraud during his tenure as Kansas’ secretary of state.
Read the full story at http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article128687579.html
From Kansas Public Radio: Bill Seeks to Return Election Crime Prosecution to Local Authorities
Democratic Representative John Carmichael, of Wichita, is seeking to return responsibility for prosecuting election crimes to local prosecutors rather than the Kansas Secretary of State’s office. The Legislature approved a statute in 2015 giving prosecutorial powers to the Secretary of State’s office. Representative Carmichael says only about ten cases have been prosecuted.
Read the full story at http://kansaspublicradio.org/kpr-news/bill-seeks-return-election-crime-prosecution-local-authorities
From the Wichita Eagle: Wichita lawmaker wants to restore local oversight on campaign signs
Reversing course from two years ago, Rep. John Carmichael is proposing to repeal a law that stripped cities and counties of authority to regulate the placement of political signs.
Carmichael, D-Wichita, voted in favor of the law as part of House Bill 2183: http://kslegislature.org/li_2016/b2015_16/measures/hb2183/, a catch-all political campaign bill that passed late in the 2015 legislative session.
On Friday, he said he didn’t expect it to result in the “forests of signs along the major thoroughfares of Wichita” that sprouted during the 2016 elections.
Read the full story at http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article128120734.html
From the Lawrence Journal-World: Voting rights advocates seek to rein in Kansas election laws
State Rep. John Carmichael, a Democrat from Wichita, is sponsoring a bill to repeal the secretary of state’s prosecutorial power, noting Kobach has filed just nine prosecutions against people for double voting in the past year and a half. Six voters were convicted and fined between $500 and $5,500. None involved noncitizens voting illegally.
Carmichael says Kobach is using his prosecutorial power for “political purposes,” saying Kobach has made a name for himself by contending noncitizens are stealing elections.
Read the full story at http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/jan/21/voting-rights-advocates-seek-rein-kansas-election-/