Debating Crossing Party Lines

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Letter published in Newsweek:

Debating Crossing Party Lines

Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of the late President Dwight Eisenhower, says "it's a buyer's market" for the votes of reasonable Republicans disaffected with their party ("Generational Tensions," May 14). Eisenhower challenges Democrats: "Make my day." In her grandfather's home state of Kansas, Democrats have cut more than $1 billion in wasteful spending, reinvesting in public education, without resorting to tax increases. They are promoting domestic energy security through development of renewable fuels and supporting our National Guard members and their families with a "Military Bill of Rights." Carrying that record into the 2006 elections, Kansas Democrats inspired a respected district attorney to leave the Republican Party and run for attorney general as a Democrat; Paul Morrison won handily, defeating a divisive Republican incumbent. And I was re-elected to a second term as governor—with Mark Parkinson, a former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, as my running mate. In Kansas, voter registration favors Republicans nearly 2 to 1. Yet Democrats are attracting Republican votes with a pragmatic style of leadership focused on the right priorities. So, to President Eisenhower's granddaughter, and other Republicans losing patience with their party's drift, I say: "Welcome to a Democratic Party of responsible government and real results."
Kathleen Sebelius
Governor of Kansas
Topeka, Kans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18754287/site/newsweek/ (and scroll down)

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. We are SO lucky to have this wonderful woman as our governor!!

Some of us are also hoping she will run for Roberts' Senate seat.

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2. I know. She was so great after the tornado hit

perhaps that book about "what is wrong with Kansas" needs some re-write.

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3. That book applies more to MO than to KS

KS has always been red. MO was blue, now it has changed.