Race for KS Governor is on and Jeff Colyer has Early Lead, A 177 Year Old Brand that Reminds me of my Dad Closes Down

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Kevin Kietzman

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The state of Kansas has about a thousand issues Missouri doesn't have. Eight years with a Dem governor will have that effect. The state is 43rd in America in average income. The state income tax is the highest in the region and for 2 million people it's a 3-6 hour U-Haul to zero state tax in Texas. The population is shrinking and that's very rare for a red state. Missouri is working toward zero percent income tax and the exodus of Kansas residents to Missouri would be an eastern moving tidal wave in KC. The budget has soared over 60% for no good reason at all. Oh, and the government schools are a total mess as they scream for more money from Topeka. Jeff Colyer was governor for a year in 2018-19. He left a surplus and a record of transparency and accountability. It's long gone. Governor Colyer is back after a full life as a surgeon, volunteer surgeon around the globe and years of public service in his home state. He appears to be the frontrunner in a really crowed field for governor and here's here to tell you what he's planning to do to clean up the mess. Then, in our Final Final, a 177 year old brand that reminds me of my dad closes down.

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0:11.0	This will be the last episode of the week for Kevin Keatsman has issues. Thanks for joining us, as always, and hitting the play button.
0:16.3	We've got a lot to discuss with Governor Jeff Collier today, who's running for Governor of Kansas again.
0:21.5	We'll go over his history in just a little bit and then a very frank conversation about the
0:25.8	issues that he will be running on in a very crowded field. I mentioned that here at the top
0:31.1	because there will be no podcast on Friday unless the world catches on fire and something happens.
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1:27.2	We've got an interesting conversation today
1:29.3	with the 47th governor of Kansas. Jeff Collier was the governor for a year from January of 18 to
1:36.0	January of 19. If you remember, he was lieutenant governor for seven years before that under Sam Brownback.
1:41.3	Donald Trump selected Brownback to an ambassador position, and he left as governor of
1:48.3	Kansas under fire for some of the things that he'd done. And to this day, in Kansas, if you're a
1:53.6	Democrat, you basically just advertise that that person was tied to Brownback. He was tied to
1:57.8	Brownback. But what Brownback did was lower taxes and left a surplus
2:02.8	in the end. They've been running on a surplus since then that Laura Kelly's been doing her very
2:07.1	best to spend all of if she possibly can. Kansas desperately needs a conservative back in Topeka as the
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