Local MAGA incumbent legislators Kellie Warren, Carl Turner, and Chris Croft - and groups that back them - are flooding our mailboxes. These legislators need Blue Valley voters to forget their votes for voucher-like schemes that divert our tax dollars to private, exclusive schools and only benefit select students. They want us to forget about their votes against Special Education funding, which is extremely important to Blue Valley students. They need to cover up ALL their votes against Gov. Kelly’s centrist agenda, including the reckless Brownback-like tax cuts they supported. They don’t want to talk about their support for radical national MAGA policies including DEFUNDING the Federal Department of Education - a department that helps protect and support Blue Valley’s large Special Ed population.
We’ve been documenting the bad votes of these MAGA legislators Warren, Turner, and Croft - along with fellow MAGA Rep. Sean Tarwater - since they were elected. Read highlights here: https://www.standupbluevalley.org/blog
Blue Valley voters must look past the lies and exaggerations in these mailers, and in the barrage of TV ads, social media and digital ads, texts, and literature dropped at doors. Voters should also ask: “Who - exactly - is paying for ALL this campaign stuff?”
Have Blue Valley’s MAGA legislators really “worked with Gov. Laura Kelly?” Of course not. They fought her every step of the way; they tried over and over and over to cut taxes drastically and irresponsibly, which would’ve wrecked the state budget and public schools’ funding with it. They complained about the constitutional requirement to fund public education, and even talked about getting rid of it.
How about “listening to voters?” Do these legislators hold or participate in regular forums that are open to the public and advertised to their constituents? They do not. They meet with private, hand-picked groups including Americans for Prosperity and Moms For Liberty, though.
Moderate Republican, Democratic, and Unaffiliated voters are exhausted after years of hearing these MAGA legislators disparage Blue Valley schools and educators, while voting to fund private schools with voucher-like programs. By every metric, Blue Valley Schools are outstanding. MAGA legislators including Warren, Turner, Croft, and Tarwater have had their chance, and they’ve failed. Their extreme, MAGA agenda doesn’t benefit Blue Valley, nor does it align with our community’s values. It’s time to toss those postcards and elect better legislators in Blue Valley.
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