GOP Lawmaker Traded Vote to Stop Investigation

Kansas State Sen. Mark Steffen (R) “appears to have admitted he traded his vote on the Kansas congressional redistricting map in order to advance a bill that would end a health board investigation into the physician-politician,” the Topeka Capital Journal reports.

“Steffen was one of two Republican senators who switched their vote on the redistricting map veto after the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee fast-tracked the COVID measure in a ‘gut and go’ bill.”

When asked why he switched his vote, Steffen said: “Well, I did that to make some progress on some other fronts. Sometimes that’s the way politics works.”