Thanks Catherina,
I think the most important thing is exposure. Not sure who said it first, but sunlight really IS the best disinfectant.
The media, contrary to the blathering of conservatives, is as we know, wholly owned by them. There was an expose' of a tea-party/birther not getting a license in KS but no MSM journos, including John Hanna of the AP, have made any effort at writing a decent article about my case that covers more than scanty quotes and old article rehashes, often with factual errors.
We started a blog at www.brownbackistan.wordpress.com http://www.brownbackistan.wordpress.comwith information, articles, contacts, etc, and welcome suggestions. Kansas is being used as a template for a complete evangelical take-over of the GOP nationwide. Many factors make it favorable, and at least some of the public is starting to resist in the economic arena, but I am not optimistic that anything will change here until conditions deteriorate quite a bit further as a visible result of their policies.
As pointless as petitions can sometimes seem (I get that!!) it does at least show that people are paying attention and not happy about something. Politicians are very sensitive to poll results, a large showing has more relevance to those used to looking at numbers as an issue thermometer. Our tools should be tailored to the desired targets for best effect. Administrative law proceedings, like many aspects of our complex society, are obscure and most assume that the system functions as designed, however, its an unspoken fact that the Governor has "undue influence" down the food chain. In this case the Governor is a fundamentalist Catholic convert.
The voting members of the Board are not elected, they are appointed by the governor, and some are still there from the Sebelius era, but its a very diverse group of people from different professions, so they follow the lead of those on the Board from the profession of the person who is in question (the President is a chiropractor, but in cases involving an MD, the MDs on the Board have more sway). But the very nature of it (now a huge bureaucracy with a large legal staff) has become quite political. When Brownback took over, he cleaned out all the state employees, presumably replacing them with with politically-aligned people. Especially in these times, people aren't going to rock themselves out of the pension boat.
The result is that there is a large group of people doing obscure things that seem legitimate, and likely are, most of the time, however when it's expedient, due to the nature of things, the fallout can be spread out enough not to cause undue hardship on any one person, sort of a built-in deniability. It looks legitimate, takes efforts to document its legitimacy, understanding that the public will not take the trouble to examine the "evidence" and then it acts in ways that further the agenda (spoken, or more likely unspoken), maintaining that cloak of legitimacy.
If we have learned anything in the last year, its that there are a whole helluva lot of naked emperors strutting around everywhere. I will feel reasonably effective if at least a more few people wake up to it. Lee Camp said it best here:
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