Fellow Kansans;
Kansas Democrats and Republicans have a long and well-respected history of supporting one another across the aisle in a show of non-partisan state pride on the national stage, whenever the opportunity has arisen in years gone by. Our lawmakers and civic leaders have always been able to overcome the partisan bickering to get behind a fellow Kansan, from any party, when they are given the opportunity take a leadership role in a higher office.
But now, harsh divisions have split our state so deeply between parties and ideologies, that tradition of non-partisan Kansas pride in excellence has been abandoned.
In denying Steve Six his appointment to the Federal Courts, our hyper-partisan Republican Senators Moran and Roberts have instead chosen to usher in a sad era of divisiveness and disrespect, holding the bitter resentments of a noisy, poorly informed minority above the noble traditions of their proud Republican predecessors.
By rejecting Six, they have rejected a Kansas jurist who commands the respect and admiration of lawyers, civic leaders and lawmakers from all across the state, a man who has the endorsement and unqualified support of Republicans from many past administrations.
By rejecting this appointment, they are rejecting our state's long tradition of civilized respect.
Roberts and Moran need to do some soul-searching, their entrenched DC-insider, politics-all-the-time attitudes just don't reflect their Kansas values anymore.
We call on our Senators to reverse this failure and start treating Six like the fellow Kansan he is to them and to us all, instead of embarrassing our entire state by bending every debate so politically that our own excellent people are denied a place to serve us all for the better.
Signed;
McPherson County Kansas Democratic Party Officers
John Patterson, Chairman
Marla Patrick, Vice Chair
Randy Conyers, Secretary
Teresa Loffer, Treasurer
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