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Monday, May 7, 2012

One benefit of KU’s loss to Kentucky: Brownback delivering burgers to Lawrence Community Shelter

By Scott Rothschild

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The Lawrence Community Shelter will benefit from Kansas University’s men’s basketball team’s loss to the University of Kentucky in the NCAA championship game.

Because of a wager between Gov. Sam Brownback and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, Brownback will send 440 Kansas steak burgers to the Hope Shelter in Lexington, Ken.

In addition, Brownback Tuesday will deliver 120 steak burgers to the Lawrence Community Shelter.

“Like Gov. Brownback, we were cheering for a different result of the basketball game, but as a second outcome everyone at the Lawrence Community Shelter is grateful to the governor for this delicious and generous gift as a slam dunk of another sort,” LCS Executive Director Loring Henderson said.

Brownback said, “Gov. Beshear and I are very appreciative of the work done by organizations like the Hope Center and Lawrence Community Shelter.

“They provide the bridge that families and individuals need to get their lives back on track,” he said.

Brownback also thanked the Kansas City Steak Co. which helped provide the Kansas steak burgers and the Kansas Beef Council which helped arrange the donation.

Comments

ahpersecoachingexperience 1 year, 1 month ago

I'd send "pink slime" to UK

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hawkinator 1 year, 1 month ago

Add Brownback to the list of recipients...

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BillSelf4Prez 1 year, 1 month ago

Still too soon, too soon..

Also, what is going on with the indiana series? I know we just scheduled a home and home with temple but no word on IU.

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rawheadrex 1 year, 1 month ago

Beats heck out of the post Derby losers horse burgers they would have gotten.

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njjayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Brownie with a burger flipper in hand? Now that's a job he can handle!

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Intelligent and civilized dialogue does a lot more for democracy than crap like this. Get your politics off the site.

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Be nice, it's just humorous political commentary. If you don't like it or don't support it, make an even more humorous remark for the opposing side. Besides, who died and made you king?

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

HawkKlaw... Sorry for my crazy idea that politics don't belong on a sports site. I should really rethink that view!

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Politics don't belong on a sports site, which is why kusports.com should not write articles about Sam Brownback on here. People will always talk politics on these kinds of articles. Duh.

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63Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Sounds like a great bet. Nice way to pay off on a bet.

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prusso25 1 year, 1 month ago

Cool. I would rather we feast on Kentucky tears... But still cool.

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Brock 1 year, 1 month ago

Good ol' Brownie is proof that the world is flat.

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Intelligent and civilized dialogue does a lot more for democracy than crap like this. Get your politics off the site.

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Be nice, it's just humorous political commentary. If you don't like it or don't support it, make an even more humorous remark for the opposing side. Besides, who died and made you king?

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Don't tell other people what to do. This is a message board, free to anyone who wants to post a comment. You aren't the boss. If you don't like the politics in the comments section under every article that mentions Sam Brownback, you should probably take the hint and just not read the comments. It's not going to change just because you copy and past this under every political statement.

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

HawkKlaw.. I think by telling me to not tell others what to do... You are telling me what to do. You shouldn't do that. I mean, who died and made you king?

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Oh and also... If my comments upset you so much, you should probably take the hint and skip over my comments when you are on the message board. Just because you respond to every one of my comments doesn't mean I'm going to change!

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

It's not that your comments upset me, it's just that they're futile. And nothing's worse than some nobody telling a bunch of other nobody's what to do.

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hoosierhawk74 1 year, 1 month ago

Only thing worse than the loss to the Cats are the posts of the Lib's, get a life.

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hawkinator 1 year, 1 month ago

Hmm... the "libs" have no life for posting. So you retaliate by.... making another post?

That makes sense.

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ssteve1 1 year, 1 month ago

+2

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jhwksrock 1 year, 1 month ago

I guess it's too much to ask for no politics here...

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Completely agree... This crap (on both sides) makes me embarrassed to be a Kansas fan.

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KUHawkhead 1 year, 1 month ago

Bet it pisses Brownback off to have to feed the poor.

Let them eat themselves!!!!! GGGRRRR!!!!!!!!!!! I wannabe President!!!

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Intelligent and civilized dialogue does a lot more for democracy than crap like this. Get your politics off the site.

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Hmmm...I've heard this somewhere before. You're making a difference!

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

When republicans and democrats can no longer discus issues in a productive manner, you lose democracy. Get the cheap political comments off the site.

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OakvilleJHawk 1 year, 1 month ago

I'd say losing The First Amendment would be even worse.

You start restricting freedom of speech and you end up with Nazi Germany.

Beyond sheer profanity, what and how people say it reflects enough on that person that you don't need censorship....let them make fools of themselves.

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jhwksrock 1 year, 1 month ago

The problem is that the heat on both sides seems to keep getting worse. There is little room for discussing a common good if we don't believe we have anything in common. I am not just liberal or just conservative, but a mixture of the two. I think there are many who wish the "other side" would all just go away. The problem is that both are important to stability of a country, depending on what the country is facing.

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Oakville... Free Speech is always important but it's usually more productive when it is intelligent!

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bad_dog 1 year, 1 month ago

"When republicans and democrats can no longer discus issues in a productive manner..."

While I agree with your sentiment, that train left the station a L O N G (all caps) time ago. That's why nothing productive ever gets enacted. It's all about gamesmanship, blaming, posturing and perpetually positioning oneself for the next election.

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hawkinator 1 year, 1 month ago

I suggest you copy and paste this at least 3 more times.

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

You cut to the core of me hawkinator

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

You cut to the core of me hawkinator

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

You cut to the core of me hawkinator

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Likewise, when one person tells everyone else what to do, you lose democracy. Get your dictating remarks off this site and come up with something more clever to copy and paste.

Also, good work you're doing here, policing these message boards for political statements. Seems like an intelligent, civilized way to spend your morning.

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ahpersecoachingexperience 1 year, 1 month ago

And the classy thing to do would have been to pay off (even though they were donated) the bet with UK, then double the amount and give it to the Lawrence shelter.

Or...Whale meat!

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WisconsinJayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

If Kansas had won, the KY Governor would have had to deliver bibles to local schools and prohibit the teaching of evolution for a year.

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BayHawkaholic 1 year, 1 month ago

touche. not a proud moment in state history.

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JayCeph 1 year, 1 month ago

+5(000 years... for how old the Earth is in Brownbackistanian calendars)

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mushhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

Brownback having to help the less fortunate?!!? Wow! I bet he's hating that! He usually prefers screwing over those in need of help. The Kentucky governor got him good! He should've also made a bet that he would have to support the arts.

That would've been torture for Brownback!

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ricleal71 1 year, 1 month ago

Wow, Brownback is actually helping people in need. . .

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BCRavenJHawkfan 1 year, 1 month ago

Anyone else find it ironic that the murals in the Kansas Statehouse no longer reflect Kansas on any level. And Brownback removed funding for the Arts. John Steuart Curry must be spinning in his grave.

And I should disclose that I was an Art Major.

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Bangkok_Jayhawk 1 year, 1 month ago

We complain about debt then we complain about spending cuts.

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jayhawktownie 1 year, 1 month ago

Nobody complained about debt except for Repubs looking to manufacture fear and get the middle class to vote against their own self interest.

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marchphog88 1 year, 1 month ago

Except the Kansas government, which complains about debt, then enacts tax cuts. Seems counterintuitive, no?

I don't think it's too political to expect solutions for budget issues to be well-balanced and consider ALL the people they affect. Or at the very least, try to avoid completely eliminating any program that has been around for so long and benefitted so many.

Is this the first time money has been an issue in our state budget? I'd hazard a guess that the answer is no. And somehow, state funding for the arts has survived all these years.

By the way, you pretty much look like a jack*ss for spending so much time chiding others for including their political comments on this forum, then ending your day with a political comment of your own.

It's kind of like Kansas Republicans saying we have a budget shortfall, then continuing to provide tax cuts (source of budget revenue) to corporations like Koch Industries.

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HawkKlaw 1 year, 1 month ago

Bahahaha whatever happened to "Get your politics off the site," man? You can't practice what you preach? It explains a lot that you're a Brownback supporter though :-/

But since you brought it up...yeah, this spending cut erased a whopping .005% of the state's $13.8 million budget. That makes sense - erase a miniscule amount of debt while also erasing a large amount of jobs. That'll really help Kansas out of these hard times. Oh, and it's an added bonus that our kids won't be exposed to music and art, the two things by which I make a living. This is awesome news!

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jayhawktownie 1 year, 1 month ago

The elimination of thousands of public sector jobs by whacko Repub governors conveniently skews unemployment stats so that Romney and company can perpetuate the myth that the economy is not recovering as it should be under Obama's stimulus.

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