Kansas Guv Kelly Accuses Republicans Of Low-Rent Political Theater

All right damn-it . . .

This is offensive if only because that phrase comes up A LOT on TKC!!! We're sending an invoice to the Guv's mansion . . . . We'll let you know if they pay up.  

For now . . . Here's the word . . . 

USDA has threatened to withhold more than $10.4 million in SNAP funding from Kansas for each fiscal quarter that officials refuse to turn over personal information, including the names, dates of birth, home addresses and Social Security numbers of applicants and recipients.

“Governor Kelly has decided to put Kansas’s most vulnerable residents’ SNAP benefits at risk with a petty, politically motivated show of resistance to the Trump administration,” reads the complaint filed by the Republican attorney general in Shawnee County District Court on Sept. 8.

In a statement last week, Kelly, a Democrat, accused Kobach and Speaker of the House Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, of engaging in “low-rent political theater” by holding a press conference about the lawsuit before her office had received a copy.

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Kansas governor won't send SNAP recipients' personal info to feds. She's getting sued

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