I have no idea if this true:
Want to understand how corrupt Kansas is? Here we have an attorney, Alan Rupe, earning millions of dollars suing the state "on behalf of the children" for more money for schools. The millions of dollars he is paid come from taxpayers, meaning that Kansas taxpayers end up paying to sue themselves so, in the end, they are forced to pay more in taxes. Those higher taxes then go to the government school cartel, which then spends millions more to hire Mr. Rupe and others like him to keep filing lawsuits so they receive even more tax money. After all, how else will some local Kansas public school superintendents continue to earn more than the President of the United States?
What a great system, right?
But wait, it gets better.
So just who is Alan Rupe? Turns out, he's none other than the ex-husband of Carol Rupe who served on the State Board of Education when all of these never-ending lawsuits got started. Back then, the Topeka Capital-Journal caught Ms. Rupe having inappropriate side conversations with her ex-husband about his ongoing lawsuits against the very department she helped oversee (which, remember, is funded by the taxpayers of this state). Though Ms. Rupe, as an elected member of the State Board of Education, owed it to the taxpayers to defend their right to decide, through their elected officials, how much money amounts to providing a "suitable" education, The Cap-Journal reported, "Republican Carol Rupe, of Wichita, said she talked to [Mr.] Rupe. After all, she said, he is her ex-husband and she was sympathetic toward his cause."
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http://cjonline.com/stories/090606/leg_rupe.shtml#.WV0669ZtmM8)
And just who, in the above article, is that "tsk-tsk"ing over in the corner about the inappropriate conversation between the former Mr. and Mrs. Rupe?
That would be Dan Biles, then the Attorney for the State Board of Education, who, like Ms. Rupe, was SUPPOSED to be defending the taxpayers against lawsuits like Mr. Rupe's. As it turns out, though, he too was secretly pulling for Mr. Rupe and just months after this article ran, Mr. Biles was rewarded by insane left-wing Democrat Governor Kathleen Sebelius with an appointment to the Kansas Supreme Court....
...yes, THAT Supreme Court -- the one that is now putting loaded pistols to the heads of the Legislative and Executive branches (figuratively speaking, of course) and ordering them to spend billions more on public schools. After all, nothing says "We Supreme Court justices care about providing a suitable education to our children" like threatening to shutter schools.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare famously penned, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." He obviously hadn't yet become acquainted with the State of Kansas.
