 “It just sort of reacts to crisis, and we never really lay out any kind of plans or direction.”A fiscal moderate and prominent Republican, Bond endorsed House Minority Leader and Blue Dog Democrat Paul Davis for governor in 2014, over incumbent Republican governor Sam Brownback.His rationale for doing so was created by the state's fiscal difficulties brought on by Brownback's substantial tax cutting policies.In the 2018 general election, Bond, along with former U.S.