Yates: "If the bomb is dropped this spring, it’s going to be a mess down there"

Former State Rep. Brian Yates (R-Lee's Summit) isn't holding back in his criticism of his former colleagues in the House of Representatives.  The Star's Steve Kraske spoke with Yates, who is "convinced, but cannot prove, that laws were broken, particularly when it comes to swapping votes for campaign donations."

Serving in the General Assembly, [Yates] said, had become a “scam.”Almost everywhere Yates looked, there were “eye poppers,” as he called them — ongoing activity that has little to do with serving the people but has the FBI snooping...

“It just seemed to get worse and worse with time,” Yates said.He didn’t sit idly by. Yates sponsored a bi-partisan ethics bill last year that went nowhere. Yates, who’s taken a new position with payday lender QC Holdings in Kansas City, thinks federal investigators may well decide to bring indictments. If that happens, Yates said he wants to be far, far away from the Capitol.

“If the bomb is dropped this spring,” he said, “it’s going to be a mess down there. And I don’t want to be affiliated with that.”