LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Democratic challenger Paul Davis has conceded the Kansas governor’s race to Republican incumbent Sam Brownback.
The Associated Press declared a winner in the race shortly after Davis’ concession Tuesday night.
The governor successfully pushed the GOP-dominated Legislature during his first term to slash personal income taxes to boost the state’s economy. The state cut its top rate by 26 percent and exempted the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes altogether.
Davis told supporters at a rally in his hometown in Lawrence that the state faces real challenges and people must work together. He said, “While we fell just short of the outcome that we wanted, I would do it all over again in a second.”
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I live in Texas, which is bad enough, and still look at Kansas and wonder, do you just love suffering?
Future generations will look back in amazement at polices that produced certain failure were rewarded time and time again with yet another shot at making things even worse.
I look forward to Kansas’ descent into failed-state status a third-world status… or rather the model of conservative governance.
Maybe the U.N. will send in relief workers.
This crystallized the evening for me. Brownback and the GOP were obviously successful in nationalizing yet another race using the Kenyan Muslim Usurper as the Bogeyman for the electorate that skewed older, whiter and rural.
Not gonna say ‘Good Luck Kansas’ because you’re about to get exactly what you deserve. Thomas Frank writing in Slate called it ‘tax breaks for corporations and billionaires, austerity for the rest of Kansans’.