This past weekend there was a healthcare reform rally held in Kansas. The rally was primarily organized by the writers of Forward Kansas. The rally was in response to Brenda Landwehr and Mary Pilcher Cook’s proposed legislation to opt Kansas out of any eventual public insurance option. That’s right, certain Kansas [...]
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This is just one of many more posts and pics to come from todays Healthcare Rally. A big thanks to Rep. Delia Garcia for the quick upload of pictures!
The Forward Kansas team is again holding another Healthcare for Kansans rally on December 5 in Wichita. As you’ll remember, FK held a successful rally in Shawnee, KS earlier last month on this very issue (see pictures of the November 7 rally here). We’ll again be hitting the streets, only this time in Wichita and [...]
Two months ago a young single mother, Elizabeth Smith, with her 2 year old son in tow, went to town hall meeting in Ottawa to hear from her member of Congress, Lynn Jenkins.
Elizabeth didn’t go there with a political agenda. She is a registered independent, but she had a serious question, why does she as [...]
Around this time last week many Kansas activists, including myself and many other Forward Kansas authors, were in the process of organizing a Healthcare Reform Rally to be held in Shawnee, KS.
Saturday was a testament to what young, motivated and passionate people can do. What started off as a few friends hanging out talking [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, those of us here at Forward Kansas have done our best to educate you on the rouge actions of some members of the Kansas Legislature. Kansas Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook recently introduced a Constitutional Amendment to pre-emptively opt Kansas out of federal Health Care Reform. And of course she brought [...]
Saturday was easily one of the best days I’ve had in recent years, politically speaking, with maybe the exception of November 04, 2008. So what happened that made this day such a success in my eyes? An unusual alignment of the stars? No. The arrival of my dream girl? Sadly, no. Saturday was historic for [...]
Today multiple groups came together in Shawnee, KS to show support for health care reform.
I am proud to say the event organized by real Kansas activist (many of which are Forward Kansas authors!), Kansas Young Democrats, Move On, and other great Kansans was a huge success.
We gathered about 100 people from all parts of Kansas [...]
While I’ve previously spoken about the the point of this Saturday’s march, the game recently became elevated to a higher level. At first it seemed like the first vote in the US House of Representatives would be held Saturday night, but all of that appears to have changed — according to the Associated Press:
Majority Leader [...]
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