Sherman Smith
speaker
1,886 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 6d ago
Sherman Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh it's Republicans are gonna do whatever they want and they you know, they don't even care if the Democrats have a say at all.
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You know, the main thing here is that uh the governor and Democrats really wanted a significant pay raise for the executive branch employees, for state government workers.
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And they were looking for like a 3% pay raise.
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Uh the legislature, uh, because of a mechanism they put in place a couple of years ago, they were giving themselves, lawmakers were giving themselves a four percent pay raise.
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They also inserted a 10% pay pay.
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Pay raise for their staff, the people who work in the state house.
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Governor Laura Kelly sent a signal by vetoing the legislature's budget in its entirety, meaning the legislature as of July would not be able to operate at all, none of their staff would be paid at all.
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Obviously, not very realistic.
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Bill that actually gives state employees a pay raise and funds the legislature, how Republican leaders wanted to.
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But with some high drama in the House in particular and some twisting of arms, they were able to override this veto so that state employees get just 1% raise.
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Uh state employees, excuse me, the state legislators will get their 4%, their staff will get their 10%.
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You know, it's interesting.
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We heard a lot of speeches from people like uh Representative Blake Carpenter, a Republican from Derby, talking about how uh you know important it is for legislators to be well compensated so that we can get a better, broader range of candidates to run, which you know I think is a reasonable assertion.
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He also talked about how, and others did the how great and and important and valuable the work is.
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of the legislative staff and making sure all of this happened.
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They could point to people on the floor and say, you know, I'm so glad so-and-so over there is here doing this work late on a, you know, Thursday night or Friday night, whatever.
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Um
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They offered none of that appreciation for the state employees, the thousands of state employees who do also very important work at all these other agencies.
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So that was one of the big items in the budget.
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They also included in that overriding her line item veto of parking privileges for state legislators.
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