Open Letter to Doug Mays

You're not smarter than Kansas parents Dear Speaker Mays and Representatives O'Neal and Decker, Those empty desks will remain that way ONLY if you choose that as your option.

The court is acting within the law, it's the legislature that is currently in violation of Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution.

We will not allow you to hold our children's education hostage so that you may advance your political careers.

You should be ashamed of yourselves for spending over $350,000 taxpayer dollars so that you can posture for the TV cameras.

Do you truly believe that Kansans are proud of these stall tactics that you have implemented in Topeka over the last week?

The fact is that you and your handful of followers came to Topeka unwilling to give one thin dime to our schools, and hell-bent on a Constitutional Amendment. Some had even requested the cost of a special election before the court handed down its ruling.

It's time you came to the realization that your members in the House voted on a Constitutional Amendment and it failed! Those votes came from elected officials representing the views of their constiteunts. STOP trying to avert the will of the citizens of this state and their elected officials by refusing to allow the House to vote up or down on the school finance plan passed by the Senate.

The voters of Kansas are much smarter than you give them credit for. Voters see through this charade and they will not take kindly to having their Representatives that they elected bullied and not allowed to perform their constitutional duty.

Quit tinkering with the Constitution and do the work you were sent to Special Session to complete.

FUND OUR SCHOOLS!