2022 Kansas Governor's Debate - October 5th, 2022 

Can I just say: this is probably the best of the senate/gubernatorial debates I’ve seen this season, and I’ve watched quite a few. Respectful, qualified candidates, (mostly) substantive and on topic answers, and well moderated. Excellent job all around.

One of the best debates I've ever seen - excellent moderator. The Commission on Presidential Debates should seriously consider Nick Haines as a 2024 moderator!

This is an example of what a well run and well set up debate looks like. Other debate moderators, sponsors and format managers should take notes! Many other debates have been terribly set up and terribly run.

This was a very respectful and well moderated debate. Such a breath a fresh air!! Hopefully the rest of the country can learn a thing or two about civility and how to conduct debates.

Regardless of who won the debate - I thought the moderator was exceptional. I got more substance out of this debate than any presidential one in recent history.

Get this guy to host presidential debate

So, why were we NOT allowed to hear from the Independent Dennis Pyle and Libertarian Seth Cordell? THIS IS NOT A 2022 KANSAS GOVERNOR'S DEBATE because you have not included ALL candidates running for this office. How are voters okay with this? I'm not.

He talks LOUDLY but that does not gets work done. He is accusatory but not problem solving. If the previous governor wrote bills that present governor passed, then why is he not still governor. If he is so great what has he done already Without a title.

Derek has this Latino's vote. First time ever voting Republican in Kansas ... 🇺🇸

Cannabis laws in Kansas need attention. Decriminalization and path to medicinal status is necessary, to focus on bigger issues such as fentanyl and human trafficking. Restrictions obviously need to be in place to tax it and keep things safe and regulated. There are many Kansan veterans and medical patients that would significantly benefit from some form of legalization. Being an agricultural powerhouse (surrounded by states that have decriminalized/legalized to some degree), Kansas would benefit significantly with jobs and taxes associated with the industry. This should be a bipartisan topic everyone can agree on. Let free Americans make their own health decisions on marijuana, not the government!

Why does he keep talking about Joe Biden? My understanding is that federal government CAN send money BUT the Governor is responsible for using it properly for the growth of the state. Maybe I'm wrong!

Well hopefully we can get the woman out of office

thank you Gov Kelly! you can retire now.

I’ve gotta keep my eye out on these! I would like to attend one in person one day

Poverty is the greatest problem laying down the law and all of our hospitals and nursing homes that we have to save life not kill people and the wonderful consistency of teaching that we do not have in our country anymore

If you want crime to go down bring the poverty level way down to nothing most crime disappears

They talk about addiction you have the same trouble with the alcohol nothing has changed people need to learn and teach moderation

How come the other two candidates are not in this debate?

Ohioan here: Kansas is a wonderfully run state. Whenever I drive through to get to Colorado, or stop in Lawrence to visit friends, I always feel welcomed and safe. This debate reflects that truth as it was civil and respectful. I'm glad Laura Kelly is governor because any one party controlling a state can be dangerous.

Mr. Schmidt was impressive

The problem is at the end of the day Kelly will toe the line of her party like all governors do to an extent. However her party's federal policies are garbage. So are many state policies of her fellow party governors. I don't think she's done a bad job, even if I don't agree with everything she's done. However I'm worried about her party's politics seeping even more into her decisions. If I wanted to live in a liberal state I would move to a liberal state. I don't want a purple Kansas.

Don't vote color or party, vote for the one that makes the most sense for u.

Derek Schmidt should’ve done a better job of winning the Hispanic vote in KCK

VOTE RED !

I though that for a joke, that the moderator was going to add at the beginning..."And If you feel you're NOT as qualified as the other candidate, we'd like to hear about that also."

The Republican won the debate!

When the moderator popped up he looked like a vampire.

Not backing the marijuana issue is hurting the revenue of the state of Kansas we can make some wonderful Revenue building our tax base it will save the agricultural world

I have 4 kids in kansas public schools. My oldest is 9th grade, my youngest is in 1st. The longer we stayed in a brick and mortar schools the worse they seemed to get in the USD500. We were told that the best performing schools received the least amount of money. There is no motivation for the good schools to keep it up. Not to mention the behavior problems that constantly disrupt learning for everyone. On top of all that they did lockdown the district, for a long time, off and on, and had practically no online lesson plans . We chose to take our learning to online public schools. The curriculum difference is vast. My kids struggled with catching up. My youngest started school with the online program, he has not struggled to learn and is very strong in reading and numbers. Education is not as good as they claim. It's not just a problem of money. It's the classrooms are zoos. Teachers are babysitting too much, and they don't enjoy that. Sad teachers are not good teachers.

So, Kelly wants no restrictions on abortion whatsoever. Wow! Does she also support finishing off the baby should the baby survive the abortion, aka infanticide?

Kansas didn't do anything they were supposed to do when it comes to gasoline and oil in order to do this the proper way you need a high-tech non-pollution refinery that is totally high-teching up to date it does not take a bureaucracy to run it there's no waste whatsoever we're able to refine things we've never refined before and we can refine fuel and or gasoline at thousands of times the volume for pennies on the dollar giving back kansans to 99 cents a gallon nobody hits the nail on the head when it comes to the oil and just in case you didn't know the barrels of oil are going to go up to $240 a barrel it'll be at $130 a barrel the first quarter of next year

Urgent Message below why do we get rid of poverty and why is that the most important number because it builds our tax base

The other big problem is fructose corn syrup and overload of sugar in all of our food products this is all causing obesity and the mental issues as the comments down below

Why can’t we just get a Governor that thinks about the problems in the state vs outside of it. I mean… look at the roads in our state, it takes years to green light the funds for much needed maintenance then a few months after work starts it stops and doesn’t pick up for god knows how long. In Topeka alone I could name a half dozen streets that need to be finished. What about living costs? Rent specifically is ridiculous given that the minimum wage hasn’t moved to a “live-able” point in what feels like ages. Personally I haven’t had any problems with health care but I know people who have, why won’t either of them go into that? What about petty crime in the state? I mean, vandalism and car break ins are out of hand and it feels like neither of them care.

I disagree with him totally and completely. He reminds me of Brownback giving us orders and we follow and lose it all. He lives in the past to much. Yes I worry about going backwards. But I refuse to vote for a two face person. First he's against Biden then he's for things Biden does. I doubt very much he knows who he represents party wise. Maybe he should read his notes more to remind him. She's made more changes for Kansans since Brownback and tried her best to clean up his messes he left us with. He will only bring this back and put us back in same boat. As someone said below vote your heart not your delegated party. Unless you all want to be ruled by republicans again if he's put in office so be it. I never voted trump in and feel no regret or blame on me for it. but to those of you who did just remember the way things have changed is trumps fault and if you can't see that then you can't see right way to go here either. I will vote my party only because I have seen the changes, and felt the changes too, and I believe she will continue to make Kansas better if we Kansans stand behind her. Don't stop believing now keep on going forward and know we can make a change and have and will.

You should sell the marijuana recreational as organic marijuana nothing sprayed on it nothing laced in it

You know what causes moles? Too much sugar in the food supply

A welshman judicating. Interesting

There is this thing call alcohol Derrek. Weed should be legal but under control like alcohol.

The trouble with Medicaid Medicare and any socialistic help of this kind you have to lay down the law with all Doctors Hospitals and nursing homes that we must heal the poverty as quick as possible, not keep them sick and trying to make money off the system and making a huge money problem keeping the taxpayers of the state of Kansas in a great burden, doctors want to keep people sick just to keep the cash register loaded with money

This debate format is excellent..way to go Kansas.

The danger of methamphetamines is the manufacturing just like bootlegging you don't have a pure substance of a pharmaceutical grade and no way to trace it down which makes Manufacturing very illegal if methamphetamine is managed the proper way where a person gets 8 hours of sleep plus eating properly just like they do in the war but the trouble is the education of methamphetamines are not out to the public so say that a kid gets a hold of methamphetamines he runs himself in the ground not eating for months and no sleep and that's why it kills over dead

We also need to bring the poverty number way down and most of the crime will go away when people have resources they're out to do good things not fall into Outlets like drugs alcohol and criminal activity

I am registered Republican however Governor Kelley has my vote again

Derek is winning 👏 in this debate!! Kelly is lame 😒

DEREK SCHMIDT IS BEST CHOICE FOR GOVERNOR !

She dodged every important question.

I would never use a command and control approach to what car you can drive... but when it comes to.womans bodies I'm all about command and control.

When you do away with poverty and people have resources they're not doing anything with drugs unless they're stuck on them people that have resources are out to do something good because you wouldn't let them do that in the first place for keeping them in poverty the state of Kansas is very stingy was handing out to the poverty these people are deprived what you should do right now is let all kansans go to work and collect their benefits and let the Kansas people prosper not go in debt

Honest question: why aren't Dennis Pyle and Seth Cordell included in this debate? I'm way more interested in what they would have to say and voting for non-career politicians. Is it just because they have less of a chance to win because, if so, then it's no wonder why they have less of a chance! Even finding these debates online to listen to is a task, considering so much is thrown at you that's either irrelevant or obvious advertising. It's a shame that getting into politics is so tedious and almost inaccessible to the politically uneducated.

Schmidt says Governor Kelly is obsessed with a guy who was Governor 8 years ago? Sam Brownback was destroying Kansas until he resigned in 2018 to be a stooge in the Trump administration. Was 2018 8 years ago? Hmm. Governor Kelly won this debate hands down.

We should be warning our college students to go to a different kind of researching for the future they are going to college and wasting their money on things that will no longer be in business and they're going to have to go back to college again and nobody's saying a word

It should be the tap water and getting people in some level of wealth what is really causing that depression in people to go to outlets and overdose of bad problems and poverty someone special died

I am a republican and my vote will go to Kelly

Adjust your audio. The volume is too low! 🌱🐢✌

Who's the chandelier

The future of Kansas is knowing what's going on that you do not know like the brand new system they're fixing to put in it is going in it's the now system no more slowpoke all your cell phones computers and laptops are no good they're obsolete when this new system goes in there's going to be a new business and there's people beating you to the punch right now doing the new business and all the brand new business is soaring on the market and putting Hundred Year companies out of business and they're pulling off in 6 months What it Took a company a hundred years old to do in a hundred years this is happening right as we speak nobody stopping it it's already began here's the problem with the brand new business anybody that has 200,000 employees now five employees can do the work of 200,000 people the brand new business is totally different from the old status quo business

The adjudicator sounds Welsh .

Derek Schmidt thinks his supporters are idiots. During the debate he blamed Laura Kelly for inflation, US border security, the price of gasoline, and spending by the GOP-controlled Kansas legislature--none of which she had control over. Derek Schmidt is supported by billionaire dark money PACs. I know we have had four years of good state government with Laura Kelly, so I am voting for her.

Well that figures the libertarian candidate isn’t even invited

Back to the high tech non-pollution refinery we have never came up with the perfect fuel for the combustion engine or the diesel engine but we have came up with the most wonderful better fuel for both and we can Mass produce it non-pollution as well as putting in the hydrogen fuel cell pumps all the wealthy in all the countries of the world have dumped the batteries

In 1990, my mom got a job in Lenexa and we moved from KCMO to Johnson County. I attended Shawnee Mission North and graduated. I also attended JCCC and KU. I mention this because education is the cornerstone of life in suburban Kansas City. Because I was a graduate of the Johnson County School District, I got into KU w/out breaking a sweat and attended grad school in Boston. And that's why Sam Brownback's name will be mud for another eight years for ruining that school district. I was living on the West Coast when I heard the news and thought the people of Johnson County must be pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I won't go into the usual reasons why I can't stand these GOP candidates. But what I liked about Margret Kelly was that she kept saying I'm focused on Kansas and talked about issues relating to Kansas. Meanwhile, her opponent kept mentioning President Biden, crime and The Border. Man, this is Kansas! The border is nowhere close! I'm not huge Hillary fan but she was right about one thing, Republicans make the mess and Democrats get elected to clean it up. So, Kansas voters, if you're wondering why Margret Kelly and Kathleen Sebelius got elected, remember that quote and see if it applies?!

We need to do gigantic prosperity especially in the farm community could be growing marijuana it's easy to grow you must look into all futuristic new business that creates everyone in the state even newborns to be in some level of wealth

I don't know I'd vote for Kelly but I'm glad that she's making a case for fiscal conservatism.

Did she really say “working like the devil?”

The question was asked I don't smoke I've been an athlete all my life when I did try marijuana I didn't have the same effect that everybody else had and couldn't find anything satisfying about it really but I got lungs like a racehorse so if it's anything like they claim the closest thing I can think of to come to this feeling is drinking four fingers of Bacardi 151 and sitting in a hot tub at 104° for 10 minutes you're so relaxed the car practor can pop you right back in place and you instantly fall asleep no stress whatsoever

What needs to be done with the public school system is laid down the law once again to do the wonderful consistency of teaching we might shut down the public school system and go to the private school because they're getting a more wonderful education they are learning way more thoroughly and we have to cut these teachers that are deliberately given children problems just to bring money in from the state into that public school

Schmidt is just another talking head for Brownback's nightmare he left Kansans. I am not Democrat, but Governor Kelly was given a huge mess when Brownback left, and she's done the best she can do, especially with the remnants of Brownback's people fighting her every step of the way. I think she deserves another 4 years. I read a few years back that she essentially was Republican at one time, but then moved to the Democrat party. I'd say she is more Centrist than anything. But we certainly don't need Schmidt.Just listening to his ignorance on several of the issues of Kansans, telling people what he "thinks" they want to hear and watching his bullish behavior it's easy to see his vision for Kansans is way, way off. All he seems to be doing is projecting his BS onto Kelly.

Go Schmidt! 🔥🔥🔥

A wonderful consistency in all of our schools a less burden on the taxpayers creating prosperity in the pursuit of happiness was success programs in all of our communities to put all people in a higher tax bracket with higher incomes not policing the people and costing them money and knocking people off their feet by jailing them for no reason and causing trouble in our community this way if we had dropouts to go see them and get them in a success program were there not dropouts they will be successful productive people

Go Republicans

GOD said life no matter what because of the hope and the promise of becoming righteous in your lifetime and HE made it a commandment and HE said keep my Commandments

She needs to go. Time for her to retired

The gentleman won! He was too good! He looks more like a governor as well!! All the best to both candidates! GOD BLESS KANSAS! GOD BLESS THE USA!

To go to college today is a lot different you need to get into something that is going to get you by for the next 50 years what is the highest paying job I can do that's easy to learn and easy to get through college with and finding out if you're happy at that position and you need to learn something they don't teach in college how to make money versus working for money you need to have at least four to five streams of income one stream pays for your mortgage payment one stream pays for an emergency fund one stream pays for cars one stream pays the utilities one stream of income pays for your vacations in order to make it in this kind of an economy you have to do more than one thing

There is a right to Freedom in this country but you are abusing our freedoms with the abortion issue before God who said Thou shalt not kill even though the world does not follow the Bible or the biblical they should acknowledge the god from Israel that would help you out greatly God said life no matter what you never want to leave out the GOD Factor, our founding fathers didn't think we'd be living in a day like we are today, where you did not acknowledge God, the Great God Almighty, the True and the Only the Great and the Almighty Powerful

Bruh Schmidt made it all about national issues no way he's gonna win

I might add also I've had marijuana people beer drinking people all kinds of people around me all my life but they were good people they had to finest craftsmanship they just had their own way of pleasure which I have never seen anything really bad happen and I know people that have smoked marijuana for 70 years

God said life no matter what the world don't look at it the same way but God told us to be unspotted from the world but if you were going to have a death penalty you should look at killing the person the exact same way they killed the innocent but you're in trouble for killing the Saints and for pointing the finger at the Saints and hating the saints of God the saints of God do not go to churches temples and synagogues those are the houses of the hypocrites which your lord and savior warns you to stay away from the hypocrites Matthew 23 the King James Bible

This election Kansas will not have a significant third party candidate siphoning of 7% of the conservative vote to give the Democrat candidate the most votes but less than 50% of all votes. That's right, Kelly didn't get even half of the votes in Kansas last time because of said siphoning. Derek Schmitt is by far the better candidate for Kansas!

want to go from Democrats in November

A long time ago? C'mon Derrick... I can remember it like yesterday

Yes more especially since desantis sent plane loads of people to them

Schmidt: is Kansas better off with Biden today Kelly: I'm not gonna awnser that cuz Im Iazer focused on Kansas not the Federal Government. Also Kelly: Remember that one thing from the previous Federal Government administration.

can we not get some audio techs in this state? lol wtf get some acoustic diffusion in that room and some mics that dont produce that buzz/feedback! its 2022 ffs!

Same ole rhetoric coming out of this GOPs mouth. Most important issue is fentanyl? Pllleeeezzzz

Keep Kansas BLUE!

The UK allows abortion up to 24 weeks or 6 months. That seems like a proper place to set a legal abortion and after 24 weeks still available in case of life of the mother or the fetus is non viable. It seems like Dems are afraid to define a week, but that is exactly what codify means. Abortion in the 3rd trimester will never get past Congress But 24 weeks would help end this 50 year national debate and politicizing of abortion once and for all

He voted to cut education funding… BOOOOOOM !

on the fence of which 1 no more - Kelly lost this debate schmit blasted her red is right as rain.......blue eyes crying in the rain

I am still undecided after watching this. If I do vote for Kelly, it won’t be because I think Derek Schmidt is a terrible guy because I think he’s pretty reasonable. It’ll be because I think Kelly has done a great job with the economy over the past four years.

Derek can’t beat Kelly and her effective centrism!

Fentanyl is only an issue in Western Kansas. Most of the population is on the Eastern side so Schmidt is making a huge gamble by making his campaign all about drugs and forcing kids to go back to school during Covid. And of course, the only way to alleviate inflation will be to get off of oil which Schmidt doesn't want to do. He rails about immigration, but a lot of the farmers in Kansas rely upon undocumented workers for dairy farms, harvest season, and butchering plants. The anti-mexican racism angle seems to work on the Trumpsters but I'm not sure if normal "small-gov" Republicans care that much. I think they're more concerned whether the drought is going to force them to have to sell their farms. It's too bad, Schmidt actually seems like he'd be a good candidate if he worked a little harder on his solutions.

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Even though a 10% annual interest rate, without administrative fees, may not sound lucrative when broken down monthly, it is. The Democratic Party will no longer argue at what rate the top 10 or the top 1% is taxed. To this sector of our society, the United States every year will adjust the tax rate according to the national need. We come to a conclusion on this matter; this argument detracts from our focus on a better society. The Democratic Party will view the educational and medical institutions as support institutions that will be well-defined and well-funded. On the academic topic, we are well developed as a society to define what is essential in order to put forth a program that will prepare any citizen for any of the well-defined industry or professional field they wish to follow. Specifically, medical professionals coming out of our educational system, by nature of the structured environment, will provide a set of services at a very well-defined set cost. 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in November me a vote for Democrat please everybody vote for Democrat in November

2024 if President Biden or VP Kamala Harris not run. 1st woman president