Kris Kobach, resident professional bigot from Kansas, has listed his demands for accepting a position as "immigration czar" with a promotion to secretary of homeland security by November. Among his demands are the use of a government owned jet to come home for weekends. My guess is he wouldn't want to pay income tax on the use of a plane, but other government employees have been required to pay it after the fact.
Mr Kobach has made (I didn't say earned) his living writing anti-immigration laws for many cities. Then the cities hire him to defend them against law suits brought by the ACLU and others. What a racket.
Note that I NEVER voted for him for anything.
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-go ... 31414.html
At least Kansas would get rid of him
At least Kansas would get rid of him
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Re: At least Kansas would get rid of him
From the wikipedia entry on this individual:
President Trump issued executive order 13799 establishing the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on May 11. . . .
Although Pence was the titular head of the Commission on Voter Integrity, Kobach was its operational leader. In that capacity, Kobach, who serves on the elections committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), wrote to the top election official in every state requesting they turn over voter data ostensibly to aid a countrywide search for evidence of election irregularities. . . .
Kobach "made statements to the public, the Court, and the President, suggesting that noncitizen registration fraud is a serious, widespread problem", at the same time he tried to hide those same documents that debunked his claim, to prevent having to testify himself in open court about those same materials. . . .
The commission was disbanded by the Trump administration on January 3, 2018 without issuing a report. Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert, described its chairman as "a leader nationally in making irresponsible claims that voter fraud is a major problem in this country."
Actually, not only did the committee issue no report, they did not EVER have an actual meeting.
I grew up in in a suburb of Kansas City Missouri. Overland Park Kansas, where Mr. Kobach made his home was culturally a part of the new money crowd of KC MO. I do not understand how this guy was ever regarded as a solid son of the fine state of Kansas. He IS a fine prototypical example of the magic thinking referenced in many columns by Paul Krugman over the years. He has repeated many times that GOP leaders seem able to strongly support a position ever more firmly in spite of facts and events proving the position is not connected to facts--only supported by blind faith.
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President Trump issued executive order 13799 establishing the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on May 11. . . .
Although Pence was the titular head of the Commission on Voter Integrity, Kobach was its operational leader. In that capacity, Kobach, who serves on the elections committee of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), wrote to the top election official in every state requesting they turn over voter data ostensibly to aid a countrywide search for evidence of election irregularities. . . .
Kobach "made statements to the public, the Court, and the President, suggesting that noncitizen registration fraud is a serious, widespread problem", at the same time he tried to hide those same documents that debunked his claim, to prevent having to testify himself in open court about those same materials. . . .
The commission was disbanded by the Trump administration on January 3, 2018 without issuing a report. Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert, described its chairman as "a leader nationally in making irresponsible claims that voter fraud is a major problem in this country."
Actually, not only did the committee issue no report, they did not EVER have an actual meeting.
I grew up in in a suburb of Kansas City Missouri. Overland Park Kansas, where Mr. Kobach made his home was culturally a part of the new money crowd of KC MO. I do not understand how this guy was ever regarded as a solid son of the fine state of Kansas. He IS a fine prototypical example of the magic thinking referenced in many columns by Paul Krugman over the years. He has repeated many times that GOP leaders seem able to strongly support a position ever more firmly in spite of facts and events proving the position is not connected to facts--only supported by blind faith.
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