Kellie’s Priorities for YOU

With the challenges we face today, we need solutions. That involves putting people first, not politics. I’ve been doing that as your state senator, and the results show it. Moving forward, I will continue to champion our shared values. Together we can keep our community safe, strong, and thriving. I’d appreciate your vote!

 Strengthening Our Economy

With high inflation, alarming federal debt, and ongoing challenges with communist China, we must put our family budgets ahead of unending government expansion here at home.

✓ Lowered the state property tax

✓ Phased out the state sales tax on food

✓ Repealed the state income tax on Social Security income

✓ Passed balanced state budgets with a large rainy-day fund

✓ Pushed back on bureaucratic rules and regulations with more transparency and oversight

✓ Reduced bureaucratic red tape to increase accountability and save you money 

✓ Improved our roads and highways

Kellie’s Priorities for YOU

With the challenges we face today, we need solutions. That involves putting people first, not politics. I’ve been doing that as your state senator, and the results show it. Moving forward, I will continue to champion our shared values. Together we can keep our community safe, strong, and thriving. I’d appreciate your vote!

Keeping Our Neighborhoods Safe

As chair of the bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee, I’ve been making your safety a top priority.

✓ Increased criminal penalties for selling fentanyl

✓ Banned sanctuary cities and criminalized human smuggling

✓ Made it a crime to taunt young people into committing suicide

✓ Required prison time for convicted felons who use a firearm in another crime

✓ Enacted the Police Dog Protection Act (Bane’s Law)

✓ Cracked down on organized retail theft

✓ Named 2023 Policymaker of the Year by the Kansas County and District Attorney Association

Boosting Student Success

More of the dollars we invest in education should go to the classroom, not distracting social agendas, so our students can thrive academically and have a world of possibilities.

✓ Invested more in special education

✓ Passed the highest K-12 budget in state history

✓ Created a tax credit for teachers and expanded scholarships to address the teacher shortage

✓ Paid off debt to shore up the teachers’ retirement trust fund

✓ Established the Blueprint for Literacy to ensure K-12 reading proficiency

✓ Preserved Title IX protections for women and girls

 Strengthening Our Economy

With high inflation, alarming federal debt, and ongoing challenges with communist China, we must put our family budgets ahead of unending government expansion here at home.

✓ Lowered the state property tax

✓ Phased out the state sales tax on food

✓ Repealed the state income tax on Social Security income

✓ Passed balanced state budgets with a large rainy-day fund

✓ Pushed back on bureaucratic rules and regulations with more transparency and oversight

✓ Reduced bureaucratic red tape to increase accountability and save you money

✓ Improved our roads and highways

 A Note from Kellie

Thanks for visiting. I’m the proud mom of four kids educated in Blue Valley schools — one son who is in the class of ’27 and three daughters who have successfully graduated (’19, ’23, and ’24). My husband, Pat, and I know all about the Shawnee Mission schools, too, since we grew up in Overland Park and graduated from Shawnee Mission South. After high school, I went on to Cornell University for undergrad and came back to Kansas for KU Law School. With our deep roots here, Pat and I knew this is right where we wanted to raise our family.

My law office is in Leawood, and we enjoy being deeply involved in our community. This has included coaching my daughters’ sports teams, staying involved in our son’s outdoor activities, and serving on PTO boards, in addition to my work in the legislature, having been elected to the Senate in 2020. We round things out with family time and enjoying our family dogs, Eisenhower (“Ike”) and Louie.

It’s a privilege working for you in Topeka. While there, I focus on rising above the bickering of others and false rhetoric to instead collaborate and get results you care about. You can rest assured I always put you, the people of our community, first.

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