Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat, voted against the bill.
“What we did today represents an unnecessary delay of safety regulations,” Carmichael said Thursday. “We can only hope and pray that no other child is killed or injured between now and the first of January.”
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His candidacy was condemned by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a national group that advocates for immigrant rights.
“Kobach is an Architect of Hate and he’s relied on hate and fear to financially profit as he advanced and defended policies aimed at severely restricting immigration in the United States. He is simply not fit to be governor of Kansas — or hold any public office,” the group said in a statement.
Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat who has been a vocal critic of Kobach, accused him of running “on a platform of hate.”
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Some lawmakers also worried the Legislature will continue to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars from the Kansas Department of Transportation to cover other areas of the state budget.
“We can’t keep doing it this way,” said Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat.
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“State employees have not had a meaningful raise in a decade, and it’s time for state employees to get their raises just like anyone else,” said Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat who voted ‘no’ on the bill. “Meanwhile, we’ve increased their contributions for their health insurance and other fringe benefits so, in essence, state employees are being paid less today than they were nine and 10 years ago.”
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Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, voiced concern about delaying the law but said he would “reluctantly” support Whitmer’s amendment. Carmichael was critical of the Department of Labor’s request to delay the new requirements and recounted a series of incidents in which children were injured on carnival rides.
The initial bill passed with nearly unanimous bipartisan support in April and was spurred by the death of Republican Rep. Scott Schwab’s son, Caleb, wo died last summer at Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kan.
“It is perhaps unfair to subject someone to criminal penalty this quickly, but it’s also unfair to our children to delay the rest of this law for another year,” Carmichael said. “I’ll cross my fingers that from July 1 to the end of carnival season no child is injured, hurt or killed because our Department of Labor couldn’t get the regulation in place in time.”
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Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, has been a fierce critic of Kobach’s work in Kansas. He said Thursday that he wasn’t surprised by Kobach’s decision to run for governor.
“I’m also not at all surprised that he is running, in part at least, on a platform of hate,” he said. “That he wants to ‘stamp out, stamp out’ people who are immigrants in this country. He has some fantasy that there are sanctuary cities, apparently in Kansas.
“He lives in the same delusional world that our governor has lived in for the past six years, and it’s time to have a governor who bases decisions on real facts, not fake news.”
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Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat, voted against the bill.
“What we did today represents an unnecessary delay of safety regulations,” Carmichael said. “We can only hope and pray that no other child is killed or injured between now and the first of January.”
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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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Rep. John Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat, noted that the state faced a similar situation in June 2015, but lawmakers passed a bill declaring more than 24,000 employees “essential” to head off furloughs.
“We find ourselves once again on the precipice, and we find legislators coerced by circumstance,” Carmichael said. “If we had been working the budget, if we had been working a real tax plan starting at Day 1 … we wouldn’t find ourselves in this last-minute potential disaster.”
He said frustration, mounting with now the second-longest legislative session in state history, would deepen if furloughs are made.
“If this was a business, the stockholders would fire the board of directors and the CEO,” Carmichael said.
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Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, said the state faced a similar situation in June 2015, when lawmakers passed a bill: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article23266023.html to declare more than 24,000 employees essential to head off furloughs.
“We find ourselves once again on the precipice, and we find legislators coerced by circumstance,” Carmichael said. “If we had been working the budget, if we had been working a real tax plan starting at Day 1 … we wouldn’t find ourselves in this last-minute potential disaster.”
He said frustration about the second-longest legislative session in state history would deepen if furloughs were made.
“If this was a business, the stockholders would fire the board of directors and the CEO,” Carmichael said.
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