Sherman Smith
speaker
1,886 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Sherman Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 3.
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an abrupt notice for this hearing less than 24 hours and it dealt with gender markers on driver's licenses banning the ability for people to change those.
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Tell us what that hearing was about.
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That's okay.
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But you know, in the appeals court, when they looked at this case, they said, you know, there's, there's no harm that that law enforcement or anybody else has when somebody changes the gender marker on the driver's license.
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You know, they, not only did they wholly reject Chris Kobach's argument, they actually took the highly unusual step of telling the district court level judge who had sided with Kobach, that she was so wrong, she wasn't allowed to touch this case again.
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I talked to the House Minority Leader, Brandon Woodard, a Democrat from Lenexa.
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He said, it's a shame that we just have to keep passing laws because Chris Kobach can't win in court.
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And he also made the point of saying, despite having such short notice, they announced the hearing at 3.58 on Monday.
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By nine o'clock Tuesday morning, he had hundreds of pieces of testimony that opponents had emailed to him that he'd printed off
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His staff put it in a big wagon so they could wheel it to the administrative assistant for the committee.
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So the committee assistant told him, like, gosh, it's going to take days for me to scan all this and get it uploaded and into the system so people can see it.
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And Woodard said, well, tell the committee chair that she should probably consider that before she schedules a hearing next time.
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right exactly so you know the other thing that happens in the first week of the session is we have these rallies where hundreds of Kansans from all over the state come to the Statehouse they try to make their voices heard I cover I covered a couple of these there is a
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a labor rally where a union leader talked about recognizing that workers are the ones that have built the state, literally built the state house that they were in.
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The governor kind of made a joke about how she walked the picket lines with the United Auto Workers at one point.
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And then referencing something the president did this week at the Ford Motor Plant up in Dearborn, Michigan, she said, and I didn't give you the finger either.
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She got a lot of laughter from the crowd.
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The thing that they were most impressed with was when she talked about favoring a raising the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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The other big rally that happened, these were both Wednesday, was a human needs or human rights rally that brought in advocacy groups from a lot of different corners of the state.
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