When first elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 2016, I promised my constituents that I would support:

• Full funding for our public schools, colleges, and universities.
• Expanding Medicaid
• Fulfilling our KPERS responsibilities and funding.
• Returning due process rights to all Kansas teachers.
• Providing the transportation funds necessary to keep our highways safe and modern.
• Legislation to ensure our elections are honest and easily accessible to all eligible Kansans.
• Creating a fair system of taxation spread across ALL sectors of the Kansas economy.
• Eliminating one of the highest sales taxes on food in the nation.
• Reducing disproportionally high property taxes.
• Ensuring women’s access to healthcare and control over their own bodies.
• Making Kansas number one in wind and solar power generation.
• Legalizing medical cannabis to give doctors an alternative to the use of opioids.
• Reforming our criminal justice system and our overcrowded and expensive prison system.
• Providing the necessary programs to keep our most vulnerable children safe and healthy.
• Promoting changes to make state government cost effective, accessible and transparent.
• Returning state support for the arts and the Creative Arts Industry
• Common sense laws aimed at reducing gun violence.
• Returning as much local control as possible to local governments.
• EVERY Kansan being afforded their civil and human rights regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or political views.
• Bipartisan cooperation in order to craft and pass the best possible legislation.

As your Representative from the 21st District, I have stood by those promises. and my voting record from 2017 to 2020 will attest to that fact. For more specific information on my positions and voting record, please visit the Issues Page.

Current Committee Assignments

• Taxation Committee
• Federal and State Affairs Committee
• Education Policy Committee

District 21

The district includes most of Prairie Village, as well as portions of Mission Hills, Leawood and Overland Park.

Students from District 21 attend Shawnee Mission Schools. Representative Stogsdill is the candidate:

• Who has actually taught in the Shawnee Mission School District
• Whose wife was head of counseling at Shawnee Mission East
• Whose son graduated from Shawnee Mission East
• Who served on the Executive Board of the Shawnee Mission East Parent/ Teacher/ Student Association
• Who served three terms as President of NEA-SM