Sherman Smith
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first heard Oct 2025
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A handful of legislators were upset because there's a parking lot that's
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the Department of Revenue leases over by the Cyrus Hotel in downtown Topeka.
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Um there is signage that says you're not supposed to park here during certain hours, but legislators who didn't want to be bothered to walk the two blocks from their free parking at the statehouse were parking over in this lot during hours where they're not supposed to.
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Towing company would just come around and as they would with anybody else tow their vehicles off.
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I think the you know this would cost $250 or something.
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Apparently the Department of Revenue was reimbursing legislators for their towing fees.
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They inserted into the budget a proviso to make it clear that uh state lawmakers can basically park wherever the hell they want uh if it's a lot that's leased or owned by the state.
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Um the other big thing to talk about, of course, in the the budget was uh there's a provision dealing with the student walkouts.
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Um
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That makes it so that uh students in schools, K-12 public schools, are not allowed to walk out and protest anymore.
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And if they are, there there's real punishment.
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They have to um come back for an extra day of of school at the end of the year.
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Schools are are fined, I think, uh the equivalent of a superintendent's annual salary.
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Um, it's just a way to really crack down on students, particularly because they were protesting.
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ICE activity earlier this year.
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So they were able to override that veto.
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Yeah, you know, the governor vetoed some like onerous voter voting restrictions.
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We talked about those earlier this year, um in our video form of of this conversation.
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Uh these were the some of the things that the Secretary of State's office wanted, but also things that Representative Pat Proctor, who runs the House Elections Committee and is running for Secretary of State, uh, he wanted to get through um
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There was a bill that she vetoed that would have banned in-state tuition for immigrants, something that's happened for uh the past two decades now.
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