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2014: The 'restore' platform for governor

This address was a page on the 2014 campaign site. Its text is not reproduced. The campaign's platform rested on two promises, restoring the state's commitment to public schools and getting the economy 'back on track,' and both are well documented.

Original address
/sections/page/restore-kansas
Date of the original item
2014 campaign
Status
Archive note written by the Public Record editors. The campaign's original text is not reproduced.

The platform in brief

The campaign's fall brochure, preserved by the Democracy in Action archive of campaign literature, had two sections: restoring "our commitment to public schools" and "getting the Kansas economy back on track." It pitched Davis as a bipartisan problem-solver focused on the middle class and fiscal responsibility, and pointed to the more than 100 Republican officeholders who had endorsed him in July.

The specific policy behind it came in June 2014. Davis proposed freezing state income tax rates, pausing the cuts still scheduled, until school funding returned to pre-recession levels. He added a bipartisan commission on the tax code and job incentives and steps to ease local property taxes. In September he promised to "restore funding to our classrooms."

Criticism

The Lawrence Journal-World pointed out that Davis had not said how he would close the projected budget shortfall or fund the restoration. Brownback's campaign said total education spending had risen and that Davis had voted for the recession budgets that cut schools.

How it turned out

Brownback won re-election. In 2017, with revenues still short, the Legislature rolled back much of the 2012 income tax cut over Brownback's veto; that happened after Davis had left office and is mentioned only as context.

Sources

  1. Democracy in Action: Paul Davis 2014 campaign literature (archived brochure)
  2. Lawrence Journal-World: Davis proposes postponing future Kansas tax cuts (June 30, 2014)
  3. Lawrence Journal-World: Davis vows to restore school funding, but won't say how (Sept. 2, 2014)
  4. KMUW: Current, former Kansas GOP officials endorse Davis (July 16, 2014)

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