Rural Kansas communities hope to see roads, internet and taxes addressed in the upcoming 2020 legislative session. But some voters in the state’s southwest corner are worried that these decade-old issues will again take a back seat.
On a Saturday morning at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Republican state House Reps. Marty Long, Russ Jennings and John Wheeler, plus GOP state Sen. John Doll talked to constituents about Medicaid, prison overcrowding and abortion.
Voters, however, voiced concern about what they saw as other, similarly pressing issues in rural Kansas.
(Read more: Rural Messenger)