Top Kansas Republicans appeared to get the new congressional district lines they wanted this week through horse-trading in the Legislature Then, hours after the map became law, the GOP leader who supposedly struck the deal seemed to go back on it.
A Republican physician-lawmaker said he and the state Senate s top leader had a “mutual agreement” to secure his and another crucial yes vote for a map that politically hurts the only Kansas Democrat in Congress. Before they delivered those votes, a bill pushed by the doctor-legislator to promote fringe anti-vaccine ideas and potentially dangerous COVID-19 treatments cleared committee.
