Parkinson wasn’t the only one who caved in to coal

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson wasn’t alone in in his big cave-in to coal last week. After all, Kansas lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve the new governor’s hastily announced deal with Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to build just one instead of two new coal-fired power plants in western Kansas, thus ending two years of legislative scrapping.

The Kansas House signed off on the deal 103-18; the Senate vote was 37-2.

One of those two senators was Mission Hills Republican David Wysong. The other was Lawrence’s Marci Francisco.

Almost everyone else in the metro’s House and Senate delegations, Democrats and Republicans, approved the Parkinson plan. After reading Carolyn Szczepanski’s closer analysis of the deal, posted a few minutes ago, they’ll probably wish they hadn’t — but it’s too late.

After the jump, a roll call of how metro senators and representatives voted, along with links to their contact info.