Opinion Line (Oct. 2)

I work for the state of Kansas and haven’t received a raise in six years. The proposed 1-cent sales tax in Wichita would eat up every penny of the paltry $250 “bonus” I have yet to see. Sorry, but Sam Brownback leaves me no choice. I have to vote “no.”

In times past, when city leaders wanted you to vote for additional taxes, they threatened to close branch libraries if their efforts failed. Now if the new sales tax fails, they threaten to shut down public transportation. It seems they have no shame.

Remember the last time we made the mistake of electing a Democrat governor? It turned out to be the queen of Obamacare. No more mistakes. Vote Brownback.

Someone tell Brownback, Kris Kobach, Mike Pompeo and Pat Roberts that Obama, Harry Reid and Kathleen Sebelius are not running for office in Kansas. We need education, more living wage jobs. Kansas would have the money if we did not have to defend Kobach on every decision he makes.

If Sen. Pat Roberts doesn’t meet Nancy Kassebaum’s approval, that makes up my mind.

If a Kansas senator can rent a room with a recliner to establish residency for office, can I establish residency in New Jersey by renting a room with a recliner to avoid paying Kansas personal property tax? What’s the difference?

Is it just me, or does anyone else think “why doesn’t he get a haircut?” every time a Greg Orman commercial comes on? As a millionaire, he can surely afford one.

The November election is about stopping the Republicans from privatizing Social Security and Medicare. I predict that if they get the Senate majority, they will shift all those decades of taxpayer dollars into the hands of the wealthiest. Do not re-elect Pat Roberts.

Republicans must not let the weasels in Washington attempt to foist Mitt Romney on us, or Chris Christie, or other nonconservative milquetoasts as candidates for 2016. We must raise our voices and demand real conservatives.

We have spent a billion dollars so far on the ISIS air war. The chicken hawks say the airstrikes were ineffective. Imagine how effective a billion dollars would be to improve our crumbling infrastructure. I guess we’ll have to cross that rusty bridge when we get there.

Our president needed the ISIS crisis to divert attention from all the rest of the scandals he caused.

This story was originally published October 1, 2014 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Opinion Line (Oct. 2)."