Principal Issues:

We need to Revisit School Vouchers and Charter Schools.  Although the Kansas School System is still good, it is declining in quality. The competitive effect of offering Vouchers and strengthening Charter School laws can reverse this trend.

Support for Stem Cell Research.  Many lives can be saved or improved with this emerging science. Government should not obstruct this work but should support it financially.

Further restrict eminent domain.  The new law is still too weighted in favor of the deep pockets.  Provide an easy method for effected individuals to force a public vote on such decisions.  Also, the law should be made a part of the State Constitution so as to prevent future tinkering.

Additional Issues:

 Term Limits.  We have term limits on the Kansas Governors Office, and we have term limits on the Presidency of the United States.  36 States have term limits for their Governors, and an additional 18 States, including Missouri, term limit their State Legislators and Senators. It’s time for Kansas to join this growing group.

 "Republicans believe in certain things and Democrats believe in certain other things. But, once in office, they both believe in one thing above all else: incumbency.

Are career politicians bad for the country? Proponents of term limits think so, and 18 states have passed laws automatically forcing longtime legislators out of office – even if voters want to reelect them.

Congressional efforts to limit the terms of members of the House and Senate died out in early 1997, but limits for members of state assemblies are flourishing. In 1996, term limits required 52 state legislators to leave office. Last year, more than 200 were forced to retire from statehouses across the country. Fresh blood and fresh ideas can only come by way of term limits.

Right of Initiative Petition.   Kansas is one of the few States left that doesn’t allow the citizens to petition to put issues on the ballot for public vote.

 Initiative petitions are citizen-generated ballot questions which, if passed by majority vote, have the force of law, the same as if the state legislature passed them. To get on the ballot, you have to get a large number of signatures (hence the "petition" part) and follow other rules that are determined b each state.  

The positive aspect is that it comes directly from citizens, and is passed directly by majority vote. Hence "politicking" is kept to a minimum, since no politicians are involved. It's one of the most directly democratic means of passing laws (as opposed to the representative democracy of legislatures).

 Serious Campaign Finance Reform.   Our campaign finance laws still allow special interests to have far too much influence over who we elect as our political leaders.

 Clean Election laws (also called Clean Money or Voter-Owned Elections) is a system of public financing of political campaigns (a form of campaign finance reform). It is currently being advocated and implemented on the state level in several States. Some form of Clean Elections legislation has been adopted, mostly through ballot initiatives, in Maine, Arizona, North Carolina,  New Mexico, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Clean Election laws were passed by the Connecticut State legislature and signed by the Governor in 2005. Two municipalities, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and  Portland, Oregon have also passed Clean Election laws for municipal elections.