When I came home last weekend, I found a packet of fliers on my porch.

Included in it were information telling me to vote “no” on the retention of many of the Kansas Supreme Court Justices along with Judges with the court of appeals. Scattered among this was also information related to reelecting Sue Boldra as my state representative.

Sue Boldra has made her position related to retention of the Kansas Supreme Court very clear.
She does not feel that four of the five Justices should be retained. She points to seven different occasions the Kansas Supreme Court has been overturned and in a recent debate stated that this is an unacceptable number of times to be overturned.

Representative Boldra’s position on this shows two important points: one, she has no knowledge of how frequently even the best judges in the country are overturned on appeal; and two, Sue is unable to escape the political talking points Governor Sam Brownback has been emailing her since she was elected to the state legislature.

Not retaining the Supreme Court Justices has had a lot of talking points on both sides.

Despite these different talking points, the real question for voters is if they would rather have the Justices they have now, or some unknowns that Brownback would get to appoint. Personally, I believe our current Justices, although imperfect, are better than leaving it in the hands of Brownback to appoint.

What is extremely disappointing is that Sue Boldra has shown her true colors. She claims she
isn’t aligned with the Governor, and routinely stands up to him. Her actions say otherwise. By
stating her opinion that four of the five Justices should not be retained, she has made a much
bigger statement: she still stands with Governor Brownback and his extreme agenda. Isn’t it
ironic that the one justice Sue Boldra supports to retain, Caleb Steigel, is the only Brownback appointed Justice up for retention?

When I cast my ballot on November 8th, I will be voting for Eber Phelps.

Eber has a proven track record of standing up for Ellis County, even when his own party says otherwise. In addition, I will be voting to retain all of the Justices on the Kansas Supreme Court and all of the judges on the court of appeals. None of the people I am voting for are perfect. They’re human, just like I am. All of them are better than the alternative. Eber will put aside party politics to do what is in my best interest, which is more than I can say for Sue Boldra.

Curtis Brown
200 W. 13th
Hays