One of Kinder's proposals was to fire the chief aide of a legally blind Democratic senator, Sen. Harold Caskey, from Butler. Among other duties, the aide, Kim Green, said he drives Caskey to and from work. Democrats were furious.
Kim Green, the assistant to Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, one of a handful of blind state legislators in the U.S., was told Thursday that his position will soon be eliminated.
JEFFERSON CITY - Saying they wanted to change the Senate from "a power-based legislature to a principle-based legislature," Republicans proposed Thursday to trim the Senate budget by 10 percent and eliminate some jobs.Among those expected to be fired was the assistant to Sen. Harold Caskey, D-Butler, one of only a handful of blind state legislators in the U.S.