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...somehow, this scene had a familiar feeling to it. Echoes of Katrina clanged like fire bells. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, charged that the emergency response was slow because the National Guard is overextended by Iraq. Supplies of heavy equipment are down to 40% in Kansas, she said--equipment needed for disasters at home. "If you don't request" new equipment, White House spokesman Tony Snow fired back, "you're not going to get it." Then it turned out that Sebelius had raised the issue repeatedly since 2005--even in one long conversation with Bush himself...
...after being named Leader of the Year by the Harvard College Democrats, Kan. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius packed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum as she delivered a speech on the importance of national unity. A mostly female audience watched as she traded compliments with her political colleague, Jeanne Shaheen, the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and a former Governor of New Hampshire. Citing the unity the country experienced in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Sebelius called for a less individualistic society. “Today we live in what many call an ownership society. In actuality...
...showed that the new Governor was determined to find savings anywhere she could, from having all state agencies join together to bid for computers to asking state housekeeping workers to wear their own pants instead of government-issued ones. Through spending cuts, fee increases and some borrowing, Sebelius was able to balance Kansas' budget in her first year in office without raising taxes or cutting funding for education...
Republicans dominate both houses of the Kansas legislature, but the divide between the party's conservatives and its moderates is so stark that Kansas effectively has three political parties. Sebelius, 57, has deftly exploited that. After a court ordered the state to increase its spending on education by about $150 million this year, she persuaded moderates to join her in a compromise plan to comply with the decision. That deal left conservatives without the votes to push through a constitutional amendment they sought to effectively overrule the court's edict. To get G.O.P. backing for her proposals, she has appointed...
...bipartisan credentials have long been burnished by her relationship with Keith Sebelius, a veteran Kansas Republican Congressman; she is married to his son Gary, a federal magistrate judge. Her father John Gilligan was Governor of Ohio in the 1970s, making the pair the first ever father-daughter combination of Governors. But it was her married name that helped Sebelius rise from state legislator to insurance commissioner and then Governor. With an approval rating near 60%, she is now popular in her own right--so popular that a number of high-profile Kansas Republicans have decided against challenging her when...