I'm definitely FOR the coal-fired plants!

Absolutely I'm for the coal-fired plant that the governor and my opponent so adamantly opposed. I expect that it will be one of the first things that comes before the new legislature next session. That's because, like me and the vast majority of Kansans, the Republican-led legislature is overwhelmingly for it as well.

It really is as simple as being in favor of cheap, abundant electricity or against it. And like most common sense Kansans I'm in favor of electricity!! The governor was engaging in national politics and playing to her party's fringe environmentalists hoping to be Obama's VP. Even so, her veto of the coal fired plants was 2 votes shy of being over-ridden- I will be one of those two!! The clean-coal plant, situated in western Kansas would use the most modern and cleanest coal technology in the world displacing older plants in Kansas. It will bring western Kansans jobs but will bring the entire state economic development and revenues from electricity sold to out-of-state customers. It will simultaneously bring improved distribution lines and replace outdated electricity infrastructure for the state while keeping our electric rates low and avoiding brownouts and blackouts experienced in other power-starved states like California.

Electric power consumption is expected to grow over 30% in the next 20 years so the governor's plans for wind-power, while laudable, will be extremely expensive and won't provide Kansas, let alone the region, the power it will need. Our nation's and state's electric system relies on a network of power plants, transmission lines, and distribution facilities woven togethr in an intricate web to provide us with electricity. When any of the pieces are missing, brownouts and blackouts can occur.

The environmental concerns the Governor hyped was over carbon-dioxide the same thing that we and all the cattle we raise in Kansas exhale. Like the national party she is hyping concerns about global warming which has been largely discredited over the past year-- especially that contributed through man-made means.

I expect that the next legislature will again pursue and pass the coal fired plant bill as it provides the best and cheapest way to provide abundant electricity and improvements to our electrical grid in the most responsive and environmentally favorable way possible and brings benefits like jobs to Kansans, and revenue to the state by selling electricity to other states customers. Even Barack Obama is now supporting modern clean-coal technology like the Holcomb plants would have done, but my opponent is still opposed to it.