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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Your Not Going To Believe This Department
News from the world of "What
were they thinking?"
Cartoon Used Courtesy of Independence,
Kansas Daily Reporter
June 1, 2005 - The following Letter to the editor appeared in the
Sunday Edition of the Independence Daily Reporter on May 29, 2005
PECK'S BAD VOTE
Dear Editor:
On Friday, May 20 the final day of the Kansas legislative session, the Senate
voted unanimously to increase the honorarium to families of Kansas National
Guard members killed in combat. Our senator, Derek Schmidt, did not expect any
"no" votes.
General Tod Bunting, adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard, was quoted
by the Topeka Capital-Journal saying, "there is strong evidence that the people
we serve and care about also clearly care about us" and Governor Kathleen
Sebelius, a strong supporter of the honorarium, was quoted in the same article
as stating, "We have an obligation to serve these families as faithfully as
their loved ones served us."
There are about 1,400 Kansas Air and Army National
Guard members now serving in Iraq, according to the article. Three Kansas
National Guard members have been killed in Iraq.
The Capital-Journal went on to report that the Senate voted 36 to 0 for the
increased honorarium. The House was not as enthusiastic, with 103 voting yes and
eight voting no. One of the eight votes in the Legislature against the
honorarium was that of newly-elected state Rep. Virgil Peck Jr. of Tyro.
Virgil never served his country in the military service. Virgil was never in
combat. When Virgil cast that ballot he did a disservice to the families of
Kansas servicemen and servicewomen. He was not truly honoring the service and
the sacrifice our local soldiers are making and will make in the future. And I
believe, Virgil was not representing the people of the 11th District who sent
him to Topeka in January to represent them. The people of this district do not
all support the war in Iraq or the administration's policies, but we do support
our troops who are in harm's way.
Leonard Morrison
Independence, Kansas
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