Kansas Senate, District 21
The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators representing an equal amount of districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members of the Senate are elected to a four-year term. There is no limit to the number of terms that a senator may serve.
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Dinah Sykes
(Dem)
What makes you the best candidate for this position? What skills, expertise, or competencies qualify you?
What are Kansas's three most important issues, and how do you intend to address them?
How would you make it easier for Kansas citizens to follow bills as they flow through the legislature? What, if any, changes would you propose in the “Gut and Go” process?
Would you support changes to Kansas election laws and voting systems? Why?
I have served in this position for two terms bringing fully funding to our public schools, investments in early childhood, responsible tax relief and protections for victims of domestic violence . I continue to advocate for the policies that will benefit my community and the state. I care deeply for this community and want a place where our children will prosper.
We need to expand Medicaid. This will help with a healthy workforce and bring new providers to our state so that Kansans can get timely healthcare.
Continue to fully fund our public schools. Education is the best equalizer that we have to give children a prosperous future. We must continue to fully fund our public schools and not divert dollars to private schools.
Invest in our early childhood. We need more high quality affordable childcare. This allows people to go into the workforce. I truly believe that this is the best investment we can make because of the longterm savings.
I think with Covid we did made access to committees and being able to testify via the internet is a positive improvement. The next step would be having bills that will be voted on have at least 48 hours notice before they are worked on the floor. This would bring much needed transparency to the process. I also think if the website had realtime movement of bills as they are amended or changed so that the public has a better understanding of what is happening.
We have seen too many bills lately making it harder for eligible voters to have their votes count. We must encourage voting and make sure we are not putting up barriers.
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