House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs responded Tuesday to the State of the State message by declaring the five-year leadership experiment with Gov. Sam Brownback a “failure” epitomized by misguided tax policy damaging to economic growth, education and transportation infrastructure.
“A majority of Kansans believe, not that the state of our state is bright, but that the state of our state is bleak. They don’t believe our state is on the right track,” Burroughs said in the taped rebuttal to Brownback’s speech to the 2016 Legislature.