Education

• Peggy has consistently fought for adequate funding of Kansas schools and strong local control. Peggy has voted to increase the base state aid every year she has been in the Legislature.
• In 2003, in the height of the recession when funds were low and a tax increase seemed imminent to fund Kansas schools, Peggy proposed legislation that would have increased school funding by $155 million, BUT require that 80% of that money go to classroom resources, such as tools and textbooks, teacher pay, or teacher insurance costs. Peggy ensures that you get the most for your tax dollars.
• Peggy's own children are a testament to her commitment to education, with three
  of her children holding bachelors degree's.

• Peggy has fought for protecting traditional marriage in the Kansas Constitution.
• Peggy has also fought to keep taxes low and government intervention in your life to a minimum. Peggy understands that the government that governs the least,
  governs the best.

• Peggy has been a strong advocate of limiting government spending and making it more efficient and accountable to the taxpayers.
• Peggy has a 95.5% lifetime rating from the Kansas Taxpayers Network, an organization who's goal is to lower taxes in the state of Kansas. Peggy has the record, through good and bad times, of holding the line for the Kansas taxpayer.

• Affordable health care is very important to Peggy. With the skyrocketing costs, even Peggy herself has had trouble affording quality health care. Peggy has supported allowing small communities to band together to buy health insurance with the same buying power as a large corporation.
• Peggy has been an advocate of allowing communities to also band together to buy cheaper prescription drugs, just like large corporations. Another solution that Peggy has advocated is buying prescription drugs in bulk that perform the same functions for state employees. This would reduce the overall cost of prescription drugs to the state.

• Peggy believes that jobs and our economy are probably the highest concern of the people in her district. The way to business growth and therefore job growth, is to reduce Kansas taxes. Reducing state taxes is the only sure way to bring new businesses into our state and to keep the ones we already have.
• Peggy is also a strong advocate of the new bioscience initiative, introduced this past legislative session. The purpose of this new initiative is to attract new bioscience jobs and industries to Kansas - a perfect match with the strong agricultural economy we already have!

• Peggy supports second amendment rights and legislation that allows citizens to keep and bear arms. Peggy has supported those rights in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
• Peggy voted for conceal and carry legislation in Kansas. Peggy supports this legislation because 47 other states have some type of conceal and carry legislation. Statistics also show that when citizens are allowed to defend themselves, violent crime rates decrease.