https://www.mollyforkansas.com/get-involved-molly-for-kansas daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602458086583-MIG5TETZONEROXE2C6NH/becca+peck+image+fun-50.jpg Get Involved | Molly for Kansas Senate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601491227544-87DJHIGW0F1X39CEUP6H/MollyMap.png Get Involved | Molly for Kansas Senate https://www.mollyforkansas.com/molly-for-kansas-senate daily 1.0 2023-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1599595065742-WUC5FQ5UJ9OXIOYVVRP3/MollyBaumgardner.png Molly for Kansas Senate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601479987971-M00RZSY31A2JCAPHQPQX/AllianceForHealkthy-Sized.png Molly for Kansas Senate Alliance for Healthy Kansans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601479883653-63TC8B794BGLLS6MPIDV/Sierra+Club+-Sized.png Molly for Kansas Senate Sierra Club, Living past 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601479942545-AY7QSFVWZS4RWZMV74ID/EQKS_SIZEDFOR+MOLLY.png Molly for Kansas Senate Equality throughout Kansas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601480893277-PX1L02OHNQ4ZIKS9J03Z/Sierra-Sized.png Molly for Kansas Senate Increase women’s participation https://www.mollyforkansas.com/donate-to-molly-for-kansas-senate daily 0.75 2020-09-08 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/issues-molly-for-kansas-senate daily 0.75 2020-10-20 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/about-molly-for-kansas-senate daily 0.75 2020-10-26 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/in-the-news daily 0.75 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601485740019-DR4NMKZZJRZFXEO20MAJ/Expand+Medicaid.jpg In the News | Molly for Kansas Senate AN ACT concerning medical assistance; expanding eligibility therefor; establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program; amending K.S.A. 2019 Supp. 40-3213 and repealing the existing section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601485740020-J3GNI9KQXOTS24TFAYI2/PostSecondary.png In the News | Molly for Kansas Senate Expanding the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program to include military service members and veterans and allowing contributions by charitable organizations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601485772580-P3A2ZFC2GCKM1HNC30JG/CHild+Predadors.png In the News | Molly for Kansas Senate Amending the crimes of criminal sodomy and sexual battery to make certain conduct unlawful when the victim's consent was obtained through a knowing misrepresentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601486039246-4Q7GRG8VJ1YFG0XBX35M/PostSecondary1.png In the News | Molly for Kansas Senate Creating the Kansas reinvest in postsecondary education act. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601486134415-QISRUWRMMC2M4YP2MZRJ/daycare.jpg In the News | Molly for Kansas Senate Imposing a civil fine for operating a child care facility without a license. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1601995802575-7V4HYE9X1UNOPBDY0GDL/BeccaLogo400x150.png In the News | Molly for Kansas Senate https://www.mollyforkansas.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-08 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/home daily 0.75 2020-09-08 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/crickets-page daily 0.75 2020-10-11 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/cassies-issues-copy daily 0.75 2020-10-14 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/rb-mb-4-foster-care daily 0.75 2020-10-10 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/rb-test-page2 daily 0.75 2020-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602360244999-JU8NM7Y3ZQ74XTBDTWZ6/In+the+news+image+1.jpg In The News harsh version In this time of uncertainty, Johnson and Miami County residents deserve leadership from their elected representatives regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. But Molly’s constituents have heard little from her on this critical issue, aside from a photo op where she handed out sack lunches one day a week at a local car dealership. That’s nice, Molly. One meal, one hour. But what are families to do the rest of the week? How will they pay their bills and feed their families? How to survive and thrive during the pandemic… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602013026883-FNWXNKJADP88NT47DS6C/In+the+news+image+2.jpg In The News harsh version - Kansas foster care system funding “What’s insulting to me — not so much that it’s insulting to the legislative process, although there is that insult — but that it’s insulting to the foster kids,” Baumgardner said in July 2020. What Baumgardner neglected to say was that she voted YES on HS Sub for SB 161, the 2016-17 adjusted budget bill that continues to borrow and sweep, without addressing the underlying revenue shortfall and associated tax policy, thereby STARVING the Department of Children and Families (DCF)of funding for foster kids and families. Fortunately, Gov. Kelly saw through her charade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602368952761-R36VC9TWELTZCBHWI5R6/In+the+news+image+3.jpg In The News harsh version - . About two hundred people on Saturday attended a town hall event in Olathe where they questioned nine Republican lawmakers about their positions on Medicaid expansion and school financing. Many held placards expressing support for more Medicaid funding. All of the lawmakers present - including Molly Baumgardner - were opposed to expanding the program and agreed with Gov. Sam Brownback’s decision to veto an expansion bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature. Fast forward to 2020, recently she’s been crowing about how she ‘worked’ with Denning to expand Medicaid. Utter hogwash. Which way is the wind blowing, today, Molly? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602013947590-NKIVR1S2EI1UR1WTC6TY/In+the+news+image+4.jpg In The News harsh version - . Molly Baumgardner appealed to House lawmakers Monday for support of a bill requiring production of annual academic report cards on each of the state’s foster children. Admirable, in theory. Yet Molly Baumgardner has never missed an opportunity to short change the vulnerable and that’s why child welfare advocates are worried....click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014781524-Q98VMAPMTSQFSSVJWB3X/In+the+news+image+5.jpg In The News harsh version - . Molly Baumgardner says she’s been working for Highway 68 improvements ever since she became a senator. What she doesn’t mention is that she said NOTHING as Sam Brownback raided the ‘Bank of KDOT’ to make up for his disastrous tax giveaway… ”Withdrawals from the so-called Bank of KDOT escalated under former Gov. Sam Brownback, with more than $2 billion swept away since 2011.” Baumgardner never opposed by voice nor vote ANY of Brownback’s raids on KDOT. Now she’s trying to take credit for funding K-68, something she has most definitely NOT done over the last 6 years. So much for ‘leadership’ in infrastructure and public safety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014819878-OQ3826GY1UQ6P7JI14OZ/In+the+news+image+6.jpg In The News harsh version Molly Baumgardner pressed colleagues Wednesday to answer public criticism of legislators by supporting her proposal for child welfare reform. What she failed to mention is that her plan mandated only 4 months for KS DCF to implement very substantial changes…without providing any additional funding....click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014909540-J39M768I3690I9CXQ22I/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansas.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-government%2Foxuxmc%2Fpicture174173726%2Falternates%2FLANDSCAPE_1140%2FGilmore In The News harsh version In promoting this bill, Molly Baumgardner, R-Louisburg said ACT offered to extend the testing at no additional cost to the state. But she added no accountabilty requirements the bill, leaving a key part of the legislation to be added by Democratic Sen. Barbara Bollier “We know…..kids that might be home schooled or attending private, they tend to kind of weave in and out of our public schools,” Baumgardner said. But Baumgardner knows the ‘free’ testing offer is a loss leader for ACT, and that they will be back next year demanding payment for every test administered. Watch as her ‘free’ testing for private school students is quietly dropped and Kansas taxpayers get stuck with the tab ..click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602015032708-KJZ48A49SC0T65TGFNXR/In+the+news+image+8.jpg In The News harsh version In Dec 2019 Democratic Senator Tom Holland and Republican Senator Molly Baumgardner co-sponsored the Kristi L. Bennett Mental Health Parity Act. Kristi died after multiple mental health facilities refused her insurance. After filing the bill and professing to support people needing mental health services, Baumgardner bowed to her insurance company corporate donors and voted against the bill in committee, effectively killing it. Sen. Holland, however and his fellow committee Democrats voted for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602376033124-KA9TI6IFAB66T9M630CE/MB+salutejpg.jpg In The News harsh version - . For all her show of piety, Molly Baumgardner has voted again and again AGAINST fairness and justice. That’s why she single-handedly derailed Gov’ Kelly’s nomination of Carl Folsom, a decent and respected public-defense attorney man to the Kansas Court of Appeals in August 2020. “This cannot be dismissed as mere politics,” said Melody Brannon, who leads the federal public defender’s office in Kansas and is Folsom’s boss. “It is much deeper and more harmful. Public defenders represent clients who are poor and often people of color. To denigrate our clients and Carl’s work while protests against systemic racism saturate our communities is particularly reprehensible. Our responsibility as public defenders is to call out police and prosecutorial abuses in defense of our clients of color — these senators did not want that experience and presence on the bench.” https://www.mollyforkansas.com/in-the-news-molly daily 0.75 2020-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602360244999-JU8NM7Y3ZQ74XTBDTWZ6/In+the+news+image+1.jpg In The News - In this time of uncertainty, Johnson and Miami County residents deserve leadership from their elected representatives regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. But Molly’s constituents have heard little from her on this critical issue, aside from a photo op where she handed out sack lunches one day a week at a local car dealership. Governor Kelly declared a state of emergency for Kansas. What about families who not only lost their jobs but also health insurance due to the pandemic? And what about families that are now facing COVID without healthcare? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1603144306398-S386SCL52MSCODF9OQ7Q/Foster+Care.png In The News - Kansas foster care system funding “What’s insulting to me — not so much that it’s insulting to the legislative process, although there is that insult — but that it’s insulting to the foster kids,” Baumgardner said in July 2020. What Baumgardner neglected to say was that she voted YES on HS Sub for SB 161, the 2016-17 adjusted budget bill that continues to borrow and sweep, without addressing the underlying revenue shortfall and associated tax policy, effectively starving the Department of Children and Families (DCF) of funding for foster kids and families. Fortunately, Gov. Kelly vetoed this bill keeping the best pieces as an Executive Order.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602368952761-R36VC9TWELTZCBHWI5R6/In+the+news+image+3.jpg In The News - . About two hundred people attended a town hall event April 2017 in Olathe, where they questioned nine Republican lawmakers about their positions on Medicaid expansion and school financing. Many held placards expressing support for more Medicaid funding. All of the lawmakers present - including Molly Baumgardner - were opposed to expanding Medicaid and agreed with Gov. Sam Brownback’s decision to veto an expansion bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature. Fast forward to 2020, Ms Baumgardner now claims she ‘worked’ with Denning to expand Medicaid, even as she failed to support it. She only changed her position after Becca Peck challenged her for this senate seat. Ms. Baumgardner knows you support expanding Medicaid! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602013947590-NKIVR1S2EI1UR1WTC6TY/In+the+news+image+4.jpg In The News - . Molly Baumgardner appealed to House lawmakers for support of a bill requiring production of annual academic report cards on each of the state’s foster children. An admirable gesture, yet, where’s the funding for the kids? Where is their access to healthcare? Child welfare advocates are worried....The kids need more than a report card. The Kansas City Star reported September 2017 that foster children slept on office floors over 100 times “over the past year”. Ms. Baumgardner claimed in a KC Star Editorial Board interview that she just learned of the issue summer of 2020. Since she’s says she’s an advocate for foster children, where has she been for the last three years? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014781524-Q98VMAPMTSQFSSVJWB3X/In+the+news+image+5.jpg In The News - . Ms. Baumgardner says she’s been working for Highway 68 improvements ever since she became a senator. But she said nothing as Sam Brownback raided the ‘Bank of KDOT’ for years to make up for his disastrous tax giveaway… ”Withdrawals from the so-called Bank of KDOT escalated under former Gov. Sam Brownback, with more than $2 billion swept away since 2011.” Baumgardner never opposed by voice nor vote ANY of Brownback’s $3 billion raids on KDOT. Now she’s trying to take credit for funding K-68, something she has most definitely NOT done over the last 6 years. Her words don’t reflect her willingness to allow infrastructure and public safety funding to languish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014819878-OQ3826GY1UQ6P7JI14OZ/In+the+news+image+6.jpg In The News In Feb 2019, Molly Baumgardner pressed colleagues to support her proposal for child welfare reform. What she failed to mention is that her plan mandated only 4 months for KS DCF to implement very substantial changes…without providing additional funding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1603139422006-ZF67EBM8L8I5H78EYFV8/MollyBaumgardner In The News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602015032708-KJZ48A49SC0T65TGFNXR/In+the+news+image+8.jpg In The News In Dec 2019, Democratic Senator Tom Holland and Republican Senator Molly Baumgardner co-sponsored the Kristi L. Bennett Mental Health Parity Act. Kristi died after multiple mental health facilities refused her insurance. However, Baumgardner sided with insurance industry lobbyists and voted against the bill in committee, effectively killing it. Sen. Holland, however and his fellow committee Democrats voted for it. Baumgardner put a grieving Bennett family through this legislative charade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602376033124-KA9TI6IFAB66T9M630CE/MB+salutejpg.jpg In The News - . In stark contrast to her ‘principled-person’ rhetoric, Molly Baumgardner has voted again and again AGAINST fairness and justice. This spring she derailed Gov. Kelly’s nomination of Carl Folsom, a decent and respected public-defense attorney to the Kansas Court of Appeals in August 2020. “This cannot be dismissed as mere politics,” said Melody Brannon, who leads the federal public defender’s office in Kansas and is Folsom’s boss. “It is much deeper and more harmful. Public defenders represent clients who are poor and often people of color. To denigrate our clients and Carl’s work while protests against systemic racism saturate our communities is particularly reprehensible. Our responsibility as public defenders is to call out police and prosecutorial abuses in defense of our clients of color” Ms. Baumgardner did not want Carol Folsom calling out these abuses on the bench, so she trashed the nomination of this non-partisan public servant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1603139495361-FZFB7KNGSM5L4FXC8ODI/Voting+not+complaining.jpg In The News - Check out these references regarding Molly’s support of the 2012 Brownback tax disaster - then check out her Report Card (next page) https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/kansas-lawmaker-seeks-to-prevent-state-from-borrowing-kdot-funds/article_bd7c3dd9-684a-5082-947d-b804e5638035.html https://www.courthousenews.com/brownbacks-schools-plan-fails-to-impress-kansas/ https://www.courthousenews.com/kansas-still-starving-schools-money-supreme-court-says/ https://www.courthousenews.com/kansas-school-funding-woes-drag-into-summer/ https://www.kcur.org/health/2015-02-17/flat-spending-proposed-for-kansas-hospitals-that-treat-disabled-and-mentally-ill https://www.kcur.org/news/2017-04-02/kansas-lawmakers-at-olathe-town-hall-meeting-draw-boos-over-unwillingness-to-expand-medicaid https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2015/nov/02/kansas-tax-collections-11m-short-expectations-octo/ https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=24844712 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/in-the-news-1 daily 0.75 2020-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602009483077-549B6D5YLQFN4KOJHXXA/In+the+news+image+1.png In the News Cassie's original version - In the News In this time of uncertainty, Johnson and Miami County residents deserve leadership from their elected representatives regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. But Molly’s constituents have heard little from her on this critical issue, aside from a photo op where she handed out sack lunches one day a week at a local car dealership. But what are families to do the rest of the week? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602013026883-FNWXNKJADP88NT47DS6C/In+the+news+image+2.jpg In the News Cassie's original version - . “What’s insulting to me — not so much that it’s insulting to the legislative process, although there is that insult — but that it’s insulting to the foster kids,” Baumgardner said. “If she was simply going to make a report card an executive order, she’s been governor now for what? Nineteen months?'' ...click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602013530708-IAHSFUF1AU035BI4MG9X/In+the+news+image+3.jpg In the News Cassie's original version - . “This for the first time will shine light on what we are and aren’t doing for those nearly 8,000 kids who are in custody of the state,” said Sen. Molly Baumgardner, who championed the legislation....click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602013947590-NKIVR1S2EI1UR1WTC6TY/In+the+news+image+4.jpg In the News Cassie's original version - . Sen. Molly Baumgardner appealed to House lawmakers Monday for support of a bill requiring production of annual academic report cards on each of the state’s foster children....click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014781524-Q98VMAPMTSQFSSVJWB3X/In+the+news+image+5.jpg In the News Cassie's original version - . Sen. Molly Baumgardner said she’s been working for Highway 68 improvements ever since she became a senator. “It’s long overdue.”...click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014819878-OQ3826GY1UQ6P7JI14OZ/In+the+news+image+6.jpg In the News Cassie's original version - . Sen. Molly Baumgardner pressed colleagues Wednesday to answer public criticism of legislators by supporting her proposal for child welfare reform....click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602014909540-J39M768I3690I9CXQ22I/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansas.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-government%2Foxuxmc%2Fpicture174173726%2Falternates%2FLANDSCAPE_1140%2FGilmore In the News Cassie's original version - . Sen. Molly Baumgardner, R-Louisburg, said ACT offered to extend the testing at no additional cost to the state. The change in law....click to read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602015032708-KJZ48A49SC0T65TGFNXR/In+the+news+image+8.jpg In the News Cassie's original version - . Democratic Senator Tom Holland and Republican Senator Molly Baumgardner co-sponsored the Kristi L. Bennett Mental Health Parity Act. The bill is named after....click to read more https://www.mollyforkansas.com/molly-report-card daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1602461876083-YZ9JR9PJWK4A8ZTSAODZ/Molly+heil-50.png MB report card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f40509b3a822842d7589fab/1603101458647-8HEV7257VXTQBWCSA4FJ/MB+Report+Card.png MB report card https://www.mollyforkansas.com/new-page daily 0.75 2020-10-11 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/rb-3-mb-covid-response-page daily 0.75 2020-10-11 https://www.mollyforkansas.com/issues2 daily 0.75 2020-09-30