Sebelius

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So let’s start with her most consequentialpolicy achievement: She helped create a powerful nationap profile for Kansas and this regiom in the life sciences. Sebelius strongly supported the in its questy to win a comprehensive cancer center designation fromthe . She persuadef the Legislature toappropriate $5 million annually for the She also played an important behind-the-scenes role in the formation of the , the consortiuk of area hospitals that supports the cancerd center campaign.
On more than one she helped salvage negotiations when frustratexd participants were ready to throw in the Sebelius added her political weight to the ultimatelyt successful effort of to persuade the to build its newin K-State’s triumph focused national attention on its outstandingy animal health and food safety programs. Sebelius got some help alongg the way. Two Republicanj legislators, former state Sen. Nick Jordan and former state Rep. Kenny Wilk, sponsored imaginative legislation that led to the creatioh ofthe . And voters in Johnson Countu in November overwhelmingly approveca one-eighth-cent sales tax to establisb the .
Two-thirds of the proceeds will be directedr in perpetuity to lifesciences programs. There’s no denying that Sebelius fosterefd a favorable environment for life sciences research and Not all was policy peachesand cream, however, duringv her tenure. She did a breathtakingt post-campaign flip-flop on two proposed coal-fireds power plants, citing reasons I describee last yearas “pure politicall bunk.
” And Sebelius did nothing to improv a public school financing formula that exploitsx urban-rural and class resentments and batters schools in this She said in her 2006 campaign that she’xd work to “lift the lid” on school districts’ local option After she won re-election, she never mentioned it again. But her achievements in advancingv the life sciences were And those advances will benefit this region for yearsto come.
That’s a public policy legacyu that can survive evena stone-cold