Governing magazine, a staple in many state capital agency offices, announced last week that it will be shutting down this fall:
Governing has proven to be unsustainable as a business in today’s media environment. We will cease publication of the monthly print magazine after September, and we will be ramping down our web presence and the rest of our operations over the next few months.
The irony in this is that Governing had just issued its cover story on how awful the State of Kansas, under Republican Governor Sam Brownback, was governing itself. And it insisted how Democrat Laura Kelly — with her green eyeshade at the ready — was going to lead the way back to budgetary solvency.
It is unfortunate that a publication like Governing can’t last — and there is no joy on our part that it, or most any American business, is closing.
But it is ironic that Governing has its reporter scold Brownback and the “right wing” Republicans in the Legislature about not spending correctly and having to shutter buildings, when the magazine itself couldn’t counter budgetary problems.
Apparently Governing were the experts on these issues!
Apparently, state legislators should be listening to Governing to learn how one solves the great woes of the day!
Or…maybe not.
Look, most on the Republican side of the aisle on Kansas admit that the Brownback plan for Kansas didn’t work out. As state Sen. Jim Denning says in the article, “The economy was awful and Brownback’s tax policy, I think everybody will agree, went too deep, too quickly.”
And the Republican legislature worked to fix that. Good for them.
Because, when was the last time you heard a Democrat admit that their failed policy has gone the wrong way. Or needed fixing?
- Has any Democrat backed away from failed New Deal policies?
- Oh, there’s a problem with too many people at the border? Well, the Dems say we need fewer borders and more incentives for people to come in!
- Don’t like ObamaCare? Well then Democrats say we need more government run health care! (Because the same government that can’t keep Jeffrey Epstein alive, not to mention has a line around the block at the post office, will certainly be able to work out your health care!)
So while we hardly knew ye, Governing, maybe a little more introspection the next time you hammer a giant bureaucracy.
While not being able to keep your website alive…
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After her chief of staff said that members of Congress, like Sharice Davids, were “hell-bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finally apologized. Sort of.
“I think it was divisive,” Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Daily News. “I believe in criticizing stances, but I don’t believe in specifically targeting members.”
Since Rep. Sharice Davids doesn’t speak unless Speaker Pelosi gives her the OK, no word on whether AOC called Rep. Davids to apologize — or whether Davids has demanded such an apology.
The Kansas 3rd may never know…
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Senate candidate Kris Kobach took to the Twitters again last week, asking which coffee mug he should use in Chapter 2 of his YouTube video series.
(The Tweet has since been deleted, likely because of a misspelling — which ain’t a crime.)
That being said, our suggestions:
Maybe put actual coffee in the cup?
Or just leave the cup on the prop bench altogether?
(And then can we talk about the barbecue-wear?)
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