Sherman Smith

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1,886 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 21 Sep

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · New Kansas caucus pushes back on one-size-fits-all legislation · 5 Jan 2026 podcast

No, they they balk at that sometimes and voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Nathan, this has to be music to your ears. voice-verified

You you and uh your counterpart counterpart for the Association of Counties, Bruce Cladney, I think, have probably felt lonely at times over there talking to legislators about your concerns. voice-verified

Yeah, the needs of Overland Park are gonna be very different than the needs of Hayes or you know, so on and so on. voice-verified

And and so the idea here is that uh the the members of this caucus have experience either being elected to or working in local government, right? voice-verified

Correct. voice-verified

been elected. voice-verified

And Representative Revis, how many people um are in the caucus roughly, do you know? voice-verified

Well we've identified forty legislators that have experience at some level of local government. voice-verified

Are they all on board with uh getting together, meeting as part of the s this caucus? voice-verified

I cannot speak for everyone on that. voice-verified

idea, I think. voice-verified

They're receptive. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Representative Pishni, have you have you seen a lot of support from your colleagues as you've talked to them about this? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I wanna explore a little more why this is so important and w if if everybody has maybe some examples you can think of of legislation that has at least had a perhaps a unintended consequence for for somebody. voice-verified

I know you talked about property taxes, legislatures taking up a number of initiatives to try to voice-verified

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