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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Hayes had this novel idea years ago of going down and buying the water rights at a a farm in another county so they could ship the water up to the city and use it.
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And this has been litigated endlessly.
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Yeah, on one hand it's a novel idea for Hayes to find a way to to address their shortage, but then you start to think, well, what if Wichita with millions of dollars on hand decides we're gonna go buy up water rights all over other parts of the state?
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Yeah,
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Yeah, a lot of uh advocates and and supporters in this arena say this is a a great thing that had to happen and will will have a dramatic impact.
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But there's a this element of the reality of political wheeling and dealing, to get what you want, you have to make some concessions.
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And this got packaged into a bill that loosened regulations for childcare providers and loosened vaccine requirements.
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And that didn't sit well with a lot.
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Yeah, I wrote about uh this conflict raging at the uh Board of Indigenous Defense Services.
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That's just a complicated way of saying that uh they're they're they do the public defense work.
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They're public defenders, you can't afford an attorney, you're appointed one.
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Um this is actually the majority of criminal cases in the state are handled through this office.
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Um they have attorneys on staff, sometimes they contract with attorneys.
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And there are very offices, various offices within the agency that handle different kinds of cases.
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What got me interested in this was the way this infighting had corrupted a capital murder case, where you have the attorneys in the office who are assigned to this case on appeal saying our own agency isn't giving us what we need to effectively provide cases.
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Counsel to this client, which means there's now a record that somebody later on is gonna say, you have to start over again on this case because they admitted that they were ineffective in the counsel they were providing.
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Uh, you know, there when I started looking into this, there were like personnel uh disputes everywhere, um, investigations going on within the agency.
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Um, there was somebody who was running this division who was fired by voicemail.
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Just uh that's how she found out that she was no longer working there.
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Uh wild things kept going on, uh very dramat traumatic excuse me, dramatic.
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