Where does Sen. Jerry Moran stand on issues that matter to Kansas? He just won’t say
Not answering
I went to the nonpartisan League of Women Voters’ Vote411.org website to review Sen. Jerry Moran’s stand on issues. He had chosen not to respond to the group’s questions. I have seen that Moran works for veterans, but he has done little for all the people of Kansas.
He voted against the infrastructure bill, refused to address climate change, refused to vote for access to broadband across Kansas, refused to vote for reduction of the cost of insulin , stood behind the Republican policy to take away a woman’s right to control her own body, appears to support the Republicans’ push to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits and now appears to support their move to increase the price of medications for people on Medicare. Moran appears concerned about our economy, but he offers no fixes other than giving the rich big tax breaks.
What does Moran plan to do? Does he support the Republican Party’s stand for more guns, reduction of people’s individual rights (voting and control of their bodies) and reduction of Social Security benefits and Medicare?
Where does Moran stand? Is he afraid to tell the people of Kansas?
- Karen Bradfield, Lenexa
Who we are
Your vote will count only if it gets counted. When you go to the polls this November, you need to take a photo ID as specified by a new Missouri law.
As many as 280,000 voters do not have valid state-issued photo IDs. The state will assist in obtaining one, but the process is not easy. The burden falls on those who face roadblocks just to show up to vote: people without transportation, the elderly, disabled and poor.
This legislative fix is for a non-problem stirred up by the lies of the losers of the 2020 election. It is an outright attempt to disenfranchise voters who tend to support the opposition.
There is hope of relief if a judge issues an injunction after reviewing lawsuits filed by the ACLU of Missouri and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition stating that the law is unconstitutional.
What can you do? Spread the word about the new law and offer help to those who need it to get the proper identification.
- Jane Cox, Ballwin, Missouri
Fight cancer
Kansas is one of just 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid, which would provide coverage to 150,000 residents and provide the state with hundreds of millions in federal funding. According to research by the American Cancer Society, states that have refused to increase eligibility for Medicaid have worse survival rates for most cancers in both early and late stages than states that have expanded Medicaid.
This election season, I want to hear what the candidates have to say on health care issues that affect Kansas and, specifically, cancer survivors and their families. Join my efforts by visiting cancervotes.org to learn about the impact elected officials can have on the fight against cancer.
Cancer touches everyone. About 1 in 3 Americans will get a cancer diagnosis at some point in their lives. As the election nears, I urge every Kansan to learn more about the issues that are critical to fighting cancer and find out where each candidate stands on those issues. We plan to hold the winners of the election, whoever they are, accountable for their commitments to fight cancer.
- Jim Miksch, Prairie Village
The real crime
Marc A. Thiessen again displayed a remarkable level of partisan hypocrisy in his Oct. 13 column, “Rise in crime is everywhere, and it’s freaking Americans out.” (9A) Bemoaning rising crime rates, particularly in upscale suburbia and focusing on increases in nationwide murder rates, he failed to mention that he and other so-called conservatives have done everything possible to increase the number of guns in the hands of the public — and that more guns in the hands of good guys (who are supposed to protect us from bad guys) is obviously not working.
Also interesting is that he cites FBI data to help make his case while he and his Donald Trump loyalist cohorts, who supposedly support law enforcement, castigate the FBI for retrieving documents from Mar-a-Lago and are conspicuously silent about assaults on Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021.
Yes, crime is a real concern. Efforts to make it a partisan issue will inevitably expose levels of hypocrisy that will offend thinking citizens. Then again, maybe that doesn’t bother Thiessen, since his goal seems to be the exhortation of those who aren’t interested in facts or logic but know what they want to believe.
- Robert Powell, Independence
