Sherman Smith
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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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Yeah, they ended up uh booking both of them into jail, but uh ultimately they dropped the charges.
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Of course they did.
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know.
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Yeah, I you know, I remember thinking this in in real time as it was happening, like the
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The backlash from the legislators were just bringing so much more attention to this.
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If they had just ignored it and treated it like the silly little thing that it was, nobody would have showed up, nobody would have cared, you know, twelve people would have stomped on some ashes or something and left and everybody could have gone about their day.
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I mean this just went from a simple Facebook post of we're all gonna go do this to suddenly a major news story.
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Yeah.
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Okay,
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Yeah, it's a fascinating legal question as to who can actually represent the state, but it's really rooted in this very bitter partisan thing where uh you know Derek Schmidt was the previous attorney general for twelve years.
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We saw uh, you know, when Obama or Biden was in office as president, Derek Schmidt and Chris Kobach challenged everything they did.
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When a Republican is president, when it's Donald Trump, they don't want to challenge anything.
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And so it puts the governor in a position where she says, we have to defend what we can and can't do as a state against a federal government that she sees as abusing its power.
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You know, when Biden tried to do something like this, Kobak was running on the campaign that he was gonna sue him before breakfast every day.
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Now that Donald Trump is doing it, it's okay.
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And so, you know, Laura Kelly's going, If if you're not gonna sue him, I will.
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And that's where
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Okay, that and then you have the next issue.
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I I do, you know, we we've talked about some of the the really interesting things here.
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This one uh maybe isn't as interesting to some folks, but it I think is one of the most important things we've dealt with, and it has to do with water in Kansas.
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