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Topeka Buzz: Friday, February 28
TGIF, y'all, It's time for some dystopian forecast fiction!
Jason Anderson
February 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
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The 🐝 Rating System
Each bill is evaluated based on four key factors: Scope of Impact, Financial Impact, Urgency, and Controversy. These factors are weighted to reflect their influence on the bill's overall importance. Here's how the ratings break down:
🐝 Minimal Impact: Legislation with limited reach or lower urgency and controversy.
🐝🐝 Moderate Impact: Proposals with a broader or more notable influence, addressing issues of medium urgency or financial significance.
🐝🐝🐝 High Impact: Bills with widespread consequences, urgent needs, or significant public and political attention.
Daily Legislative Update 🐝
Friday, February 28, 2025
Below is today’s morning update on published activities in the Kansas Legislature.
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Top Stories of the Day
LetterSwarm is almost here!
All work and no play makes Jack Jason a dull boy. We’ve been working extremely hard to prepare for the Boots on the Ground event tomorrow (Facebook event, registration form) and hope to be able to see some of you in-person.
This weekend we will officially be launching LetterSwarm, our grassroots-driven letter-writing campaign platform. The process is really simple:
Register an account and provide your address. We look up your legislators.
Join an active letter-writing campaign, or create and publish your own.
Let our AI write your letter, and the letter for anyone else who joins your campaign. (Edit it and fine-tune it if you like, though we think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how ready-to-go it is!)
Download your PDF, if you want to email it. For $1/page, we will print and mail it for you.
There’s a lot more going on under the hood, and there’s much more to do to make things even smoother. But once live, it will be so much easier to flood legislators with citizen feedback.
We obviously all live in a digital world, but for better or worse most elected officials are extremely good at ignoring emails and social media. Our goal—our hypothesis—is that it’s much harder for someone to ignore a pile of 200 letters sitting on their desk or clogging their mailbox.