Is the end of Value Them Both the start of something much bigger? Time will tell

On Tuesday, we became a better state because voters showed up and had their say.

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August 3, 2022 - 2:38 PM

The relief is profound on the faces of Iman Alsaden, Chief Medical Officer for Planned Parenthood Great Plains, and Kelsey Rhodes of Kansas City as they and Kansans for Constitutional Freedom supporters celebrate a victory at the polls Tuesday, August 2. (Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/TNS)

What do you even write when the most powerful lobbying force in your state not only loses a pivotal election, but gets their heads handed to them?

The immediate reaction is shock.

The secondary reaction is that something may be changing; that we could be seeing a generational shift where the pressure politics of the past don’t work anymore.

In January, when more than two-thirds of our state representatives and senators put the Value Them Both Amendment on the ballot, it looked like the proposition that couldn’t possibly lose.

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