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Sam Brownback was born on September 12, 1956, in Garnett, Kansas, to Nancy (Cowden) and Glen Robert Brownback. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] He was raised in a farming family in Parker, Kansas . Some of Brownback's German-American ancestors settled in Kansas after leaving Pennsylvania following the Civil War . [ 24 ]
The Kansas experiment was a name given to a controversial and widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback signing a bill cutting state taxes (Kansas Senate Bill Substitute HB 2117), in May 2012, [1] [2] and ended with the Kansas legislature's repeal of the bill in June 2017.
The signature tax cuts of former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, seen here at a National Day of Prayer event May 2 at the Statehouse, have become an issue in local legislative primary elections.
The 2004 United States Senate election in Kansas was held November 2, 2004. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Sam Brownback won re-election to a third term. Democratic primary
Brownback won five statewide elections in Kansas beginning with his election to the U.S. Senate in the 1996, but by the time he gave up the governor’s office to take an ambassadorship in 2018 ...
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In 2010, Brownback was elected governor, and won a second term in 2014. He resigned as governor on January 31, 2018, to accept an ambassadorship and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer. Brownback's seat is now held by Jerry Moran, a U.S. Representative from Kansas' 1st district for seven terms (1997-2011).
As attorney general, he spent millions of taxpayer dollars defending the disastrous “tax experiment.” | Opinion