Kansas Senate budget ties $4 million to ending DEI, use of preferred pronouns in emails • Kansas Reflector

Kansas Senate budget ties $4 million to ending DEI, use of preferred pronouns in emails • Kansas Reflector

Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, pressed for clarification of a Senate amendment to the House's budget bill freezing $4 million for the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly until she certified no executive branch agency retained diversity, equity and inclusion programs or staff and until the governor affirmed executive branch workers were no longer attaching preferred pronouns to emails. (Kansas Reflector screen capture from Legislature's YouTube…

Waste of the Day: $10 Million for DEI Employees at Rutgers ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

The following article, Waste of the Day: $10 Million for DEI Employees at Rutgers, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Topline: Rutgers University, the flagship state school in New Jersey, spent $10 million on payroll for 136 employees in DEI roles in 2023, according to payroll records obtained by OpenTheBooks.com.  The dollar figure is a low-end estimate. It does not include several dozen more employees who are not listed as DEI wo…

Kansas GOP Supermajority Withholds Four MILLION Bucks From Guv Kelly

Republicans in Kansas are playing hardball and demand capitulation from the Guv in exchange for freeing up finances . . . Check-it: Read more at tonyskansascity.com

Kansas Senate budget ties $4 million to ending DEI, use of preferred pronouns in emails

The Kansas Senate’s budget committee wants to hold $4 million hostage from Gov. Laura Kelly until state agencies proved they eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion jobs and programs as well as ended use of pronouns in email signatures. Continue reading ...