Banks and insurance companies lobbied hard against Uber without them getting their guarantees. Every Podunk Kansas town has a respectable banker and a few insurance men and a chamber of commerce. Only KC, Topeka, Wichita, MHK and Lawrence would've had Uber.
The ability to lobby/threaten the state legislature in to doing all sorts of things is getting more evident as social media provides live updates of the shenanigans of committee meetings and testimony presented. It sounds cliche to say that lobbyists exercise an enormous amount of influence on votes, but it is incredible to see it in action when it so clearly lays to waste the idea that ideology and partisan politics is always the driving force behind voting.