1. United States
2. Kan.
3. Letter

I am 51 years old and have lived in Kansas for about 42 of those years. My early childhood and a couple of years in the 90’s where my dad was in the Air Force then my husband was in the Army are the only reasons I have lived out of state. My senior class in high school had 22 people. It was in a neighboring town from where I lived, because the town of 380, didn’t have its own high school. I learned to drive on dirt roads and am descended from generations of farmers. All that is to say, I am a real Kansan. Just because I live in a bigger city now, does not mean it is not your job to represent me. We are part of Kansas. It also doesn’t mean that I don’t care about the rest of the state. I am extremely concerned with what the tariffs and cuts to USAID, SNAP etc will do to the farmers in our state. I am extremely concerned that with Kansas’s aging and disabled citizens are going to be on the streets with the threats to our social safety net. I am extremely concerned about the public health threats to Kansas like the outbreak of tuberculosis and incredibly bad flu season happening while our public health systems are being dismantled. I am extremely concerned by how the federal layoffs will impact Kansas families and our local economies. I am very concerned about how all of this affects Kansas. But, you don’t seem to care about anything other than how you can suck up to Trump. So, who is the real Kansan here?