Sherman Smith

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1,886 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard yesterday

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · Kansas Reflector staff recap rowdy state fair debates · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, you know, uh uh Cindy Holster has really embraced a lot of populist uh ideas or or um voice-verified

you know, pushback on mainstream political stuff that helped her win in the the primary, get a lot of support for the primary. voice-verified

Um, one of those things has been her opposition, her newfound opposition, we'll say, to to data centers. voice-verified

And, you know, we're seeing this play out in communities all over the state where people are furious that these backroom deals are happening to bring in big businesses and they don't get a voice in it. voice-verified

They just voice-verified

It it happens and they can't do anything to stop it. voice-verified

And they're worried about, you know, whether these things will be noisy and eyesores, if they're gonna suck up all the water, if it's gonna take so much electricity that eventually it raises their electric bills. voice-verified

You know, there's a lot of real concerns about this, hardly any transparency around these things. voice-verified

And so, you know, I think she s tried to capitalize on this uh bipartisan opposition to data centers. voice-verified

Across the state. voice-verified

Ty Masterson's point is that there are communities where these hyperscale, very large data centers are going to come in and pay so much in property taxes that it could be part of the answer to lowering the property tax burdens, especially in some of these smaller communities. voice-verified

And he notes that a year ago the legislature passed this law that provides these big sales tax exemptions to these large data centers. voice-verified

in her projects. voice-verified

And he pointed out Cindy Holster voted in favor of that bill. voice-verified

You know, it's one of these examples, sort of like with the the Chief Stadium deal where she voted for the underlying bill that allows this to happen and now she's opposed to it because of the the populist momentum behind it. voice-verified

Yeah, very interesting uh conversation there. voice-verified

Ty Masterson has been a longtime supporter of of private school vouchers. voice-verified

Um he made the argument during the state fair debate that it's it's not fair to to uh put children in a position where the only option they have is a public school that is failing. voice-verified

And so he sees vouchers as the answer. voice-verified

He says, uh without that, uh and this is a direct voice-verified

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