It's so cute when Kansas Democrats try to get stuff done. It's like dogs wearing people clothes. They think they're little lawmakers! We could just eat them up.
But that doesn't mean they don't have logical ideas. Like minority leader Paul Davis' plan to bring up a bill that would make elected officials do their jobs and no others. Guess who doesn't like the idea. That would be Secretary of State-elect and anti-illegal immigration workhorse Kris Kobach, who made no attempt during the election to hide his plans to keep smothering illegal immigrants by drafting laws and taking on cases.
The Associated Press reports that Davis says it just makes sense to not
take on a second gig when you're elected to statewide office or
appointed to a post by the governor. "I don't think there is room for
people to have second jobs," he said.
Don't try to shove that logic down Kobach's throat. He's a master
multi-tasker who has been juggling multiple cases while holding down a
job as a professor at UMKC for years. During the campaign, he vowed to clock in
for at least 40 hours each week as SoS. (Laziest campaign promise ever?)
But, he said, his legal moonlighting is nothing more than a way to
spend his free time. In a forum with his
Democratic opponent, he compared his side work doing things like, oh,
suing California to Biggs' hobby of playing the banjo. Really, it's no biggie,
everybody.
"It's a brazen attempt to stop me from making the progress and reforms
I've made in the illegal immigration area," Kobach told the Topeka Capital-Journal.
We're not quite sure what progress he's talking about given that his
famed Arizona S.B. 1070 has been stuck in court battles, a similar law he
wrote for a town of Nebraska was never implemented, another he penned for Hazleton, Pennsylvania, has been struck down in federal court, and the
California Supreme Court ruled
against him in a case that allows universities to give in-state
tuition to undocumented students. Whew.
Might there be another reason he wants to work outside of the Secretary of State's office? Like the hella bank he makes for his lawyering skills -- Hazleton had to pass the hat to scrape together $197,615 in donations to pay Kobach.
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