How They Voted: The House’s sine die vote on tax credits for wind turbine manufacturer
June 10, 2008
As many of our readers know, at sine die the Kansas House had a chance to extend tax credits that would have helped bring a major wind manufacturer to Kansas. The vote failed, 47-49. 63 votes were needed for passage.
Here’s how they voted.
Yeas – votes for wind and economic development: Ballard, Burgess, Burroughs, Colloton, Crow, Faust-Goudeau, Feuerborn, Flora, Frownfelter, Fund, Garcia, Gatewood, Gordon, Goyle, Grant, Henderson, Henry, Hill, Holland, Keuther, Lane, Loganbill, Long, Lukert, Mah, Mast, McKinney, McLachlan, Moxley, Neighbor, Palmer, Patton, Pauls, Peterson, Phelps, Rardin, Ruiz, Sawyer, Storm, Swenson, Tietze, Treaster, Trimmer, Ward, Wetta, Williams, Winn
Nays – votes against: Beamer, Bethell, Bowers, Brunk, Carlson, Colyer, Dahl, DeGraaf, Donohoe, Faber, Hayzlett, C Holmes, M Holmes, Horst, Huebert, Humerickhouse, Huntingdon, Kelley, Kelsey, King, Knox, Light, Masterson, McLeland, Metsker, Jim Morrison, Judy Morrison, Myers, Neufeld, O’Neal, Olson, Otto, Peck, Pottorff, Powell, Proehl, Quigley, Rhoades, Ruff, Schroeder, Schwartz, Shultz, Siegfried, Spalding, Tafanelli, Vickrey, Watkins, Wilk, Worle
One (Kinzer) was present but did not vote. 28 were absent or did not vote: Aurand, Brown, Carlin, Craft, Crum, Davis, Dillmore, Flaharty, George, Goico, Grange, Hawk, Johnson, Kiegerl, Landwehr, McCray-Miller, Menghini, Merrick, Owens, Roth, Schwab, Sloan, Svaty, Swanson, Whitham, B Wolf, K Wolf, Yoder.
— Maril Hazlett, www.climateandenergy.org
