Kansas Senate Budget Seeks to Pry State Funding From ‘Wine and Cheese Crowd’ - Dodge City Daily Globe

Kansas Senate budget seeks to pry state funding from ‘wine and cheese crowd’ - Garden City Telegram

BY TIM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector Senate sends $26 billion spending bill to House on tight 21-19 vote TOPEKA — Wichita Sen. Joe Claeys won support for a $1 million public transportation project in Sedgwick County by yanking $500,000 from the state’s creative arts commission and deleting $500,000 from grants to public broadcasting. Claeys said the goal was to fill gaps in the transportation network that made it difficult for Kansans with disabili…

Kansas Senate budget seeks to pry state funding from ‘wine and cheese crowd’ - Dodge City Daily Globe

BY TIM CARPENTERKansas Reflector Senate sends $26 billion spending bill to House on tight 21-19 vote TOPEKA — Wichita Sen. Joe Claeys won support for a $1 million public transportation project in Sedgwick County by yanking $500,000 from the state’s creative arts commission and deleting $500,000 from grants to public broadcasting. Claeys said the goal was to fill gaps in the transportation network that made it difficult for Kansans with disabili…

Kansas lawmaker blasts ‘wine and cheese’ crowd. But wine and cheese are delicious and cheap!

Sen. Joe Claeys, R-Wichita, has highlighted the "wine-and-cheese crowd." But what's so bad about wine and cheese? (Photo by Clay Wirestone/Kansas Reflector)I wonder when Kansas Republican legislators last shopped for their own groceries. The question weighed on my mind after the Senate passed its budget Wednesday. Sen. Joe Claeys, R-Wichita, claimed that he had to cut funding for Kansas Arts Commission and public broadcasting to support a transp…