AFP-Kansas State Director Derrick Sontag, and Western Kansas Field Director Susan Estes will conduct a two-day visit to southwest Kansas on June 8 and 9. Take a look at the schedule and stop by to hear the latest with Americans for Prosperity-Kansas and the state Legisalature, and update us on what's happening in your community.

Here's the schedule:

• Pratt:
  8:30 a.m., AFP Coffee Break at Rick’s Diner, 20005 W. HWY 54
• Dodge City:
  11:30 a.m., Grassroots Luncheon at Casey’s Cowtown Club, 503 E. Trail St.

Throughout the legislative session, AFP-Kansas tracks how legislators vote on certain bills. You can see how your legislator voted on our key issues by uploading the following documents.

As the current Kansas Legislature is still wrapping up, we have not yet compiled our key vote scorecard for 2009. However, below are a number of votes we tracked in the 2007 and 2008 legislative sessions. In January, we merged with the Kansas Taxpayer Network (KTN), so you can also see the 2007 KTN scorecards below.

TOPEKA—The Kansas chapter of the free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP-KS) today applauded U.S. Senator Sam Brownback for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” By doing so, Brownback joins over 180 lawmakers on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.”

TOPEKA – The state’s financial situation continues to deteriorate with news today that state income tax refunds are to be delayed for a second time this fiscal year. Withholding tax refunds is simply the result of irresponsible budgeting practices in this session and years prior, said Americans for Prosperity-Kansas state director Derrick Sontag.

“For years, our state budget has grown beyond its means,” he said. “Just two years ago we had nearly a billion dollars in the bank, but our spending increases to the tune of 48 percent from 2004 to 2008, left us with an ending balance of just $17,000 for the 2010 Fiscal Year."