The facts don’t back up her self-congratulating speech 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 2022

Kansas GOP calls out Laura Kelly’s State of the State claim
The facts don’t back up her self-congratulating speech

TOPEKA, KS - Governor Laura Kelly made a lot of bold and inaccurate claims during her State of the State address, but this particular excerpt was jarring:

“I also welcome and thank my Cabinet Secretaries who are seated behind me in the west gallery. The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges for every agency - and I could not have asked for a better, more prepared team. They have not only faced those challenges head-on, but each of them has steered their agency to be more fiscally responsible, more nimble, more efficient, and more responsive than ever before.”

Does Governor Kelly’s so-called “prepared” team include the KDHE Secretary she unceremoniously fired ([link removed]) because her chief of staff was worried he would jeopardize her re-election?

Or the revolving door ([link removed]) of Labor Secretaries ([link removed]) who mismanaged the Department so poorly that it squandered$700 million ([link removed]) in taxpayer dollars to fraudsters overseas while unemployed Kansans couldn’t access the benefits they desperately needed? Laura Kelly’s unemployment crisis was so bad that even Democrat Congresswoman Sharice Davids ([link removed]) and the Kansas City Star Editorial Board ([link removed]) called out the governor.

Our questions for Laura Kelly:
* Does Governor Kelly consider losing $700 million ([link removed]) to be “more fiscally responsible, more nimble, more efficient, and more responsive than ever before?”
* Does she consider Kansas’ last-in-the-nation unemployment recovery ([link removed]) “responsive?”
* Last year, there werefour leaders of the Department of Labor in just nine months ([link removed]) . Were all of Gov. Kelly’s hires “nimble,” “efficient” and “responsive?”

“Laura Kelly had the audacity to describe her cabinet – which produced one of the worst economic and unemployment recoveries in the country – as “prepared” and “responsive” during the pandemic,” said Kansas Republican Party Executive Director Shannon Pahls. “There is nothing fiscally responsible about losing $700 million ([link removed]) to fraudsters while unemployed Kansans struggled to get the assistance they desperately needed, or crushing one-third of all Kansas small businesses due to lockdowns. Thousands of Kansans couldn’t put food on the table due to her Department of Labor’s ineptitude, and she points the finger while claiming success. Kansans are still suffering every day due to Laura Kelly’s incompetence and total failure navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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