Cindy Holscher: Ty Masterson works for them. I'll always work for you.
The election is upon us, and that means you’ve probably been barraged with political attack ads. My opponent and his out-of-state backers have spent more than $20 million trying to convince you that I’m someone I’m not. So let me tell you who I am. I was raised on a farm, riding a tractor before I could walk. My grandparents were poor tenant farmers; they didn’t own the land. After the Marines, my dad became a union construction worker, and my mom drove a school bus, among other jobs in town. Their hard work put my brothers and me through college. My husband Greg and I chose to build our life in Kansas, so our three kids could go to its great public schools. Our kids are the reason I first ran for office. When Sam Brownback’s disastrous policies were starving our schools, my daughter Sara and I ran into her teacher stocking shelves at Target. Sara asked me why her teacher needed a second job, and she asked me to fix it. So I won an election people said I couldn’t win. In Topeka, I worked with Republicans and with Gov. Laura Kelly to reverse Brownback’s “experiment.” It took
