(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Nov. 23, 2015)
Nothing quite like getting the turkey ready for Thanksgiving—or maybe for Birkenstock sandal wearers figuring out how to massage kale leaves into something that looks like a bird—and thinking about those campaigns coming up for the Kansas House and Senate.
Yes, while you’re checking the cranberries, some of us Statehouse folk are wondering just how much—and whose—money will be spent to elect members of the Kansas House and Kansas Senate next fall.
While filings for the Legislature are trickling in—a lot of legislators wait until the session to file for re-election, when their mileage to Topeka is paid for by the Legislature—we’re figuring that someone will run for everything.