Kansas Republicans' effort to redraw state maps isn't over, just delayed, leadership says

TOPEKA — Almost a week after Senate President Ty Masterson announced he secured the necessary signatures to commit the majority Republican Senate to a special session to redraw Kansas maps to favor an additional Republican Congressional seat, his counterpart in the House gave up the effort.

House Speaker Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican and candidate for state insurance commissioner, announced Tuesday night that he failed to gather enough signatures in his chamber to jumpstart a special session planned for Friday.

For Masterson, an Andover Republican and gubernatorial candidate, it wasn’t a surprise.

“All it does is change the timing,” he said following an unrelated Wednesday meeting at the Statehouse in Topeka.



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