From CNN: The last time Kansas sent a Democrat to the US Senate, the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby was all over the news. “Tarzan the Ape Man” was a hit movie. And Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first term, crushing incumbent Herbert Hoover. The year, as you history majors out there have probably already…
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KS-Sen: Washington Monthly, “The Most Bizarre Senate Race Is Happening in Kansas”
The Kansas U.S. Senate GOP primary is coming up and for those of you have been out of the loop, The Washington Monthly will explain why this is the craziest U.S. Senate primary of the year: The state of Kansas holds its primary on August 4th and a whopping eleven candidates are vying for the…
KS-Sen: NYT, “Kris Kobach (R) Is Back, and a Kansas Senate Seat May Be Up for Grabs”
From yesterday’s New York Times: Ahead of the August primary, Democrats have largely rallied around Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist who was until recently a Republican. Republicans, meanwhile, are locked in an intraparty competition that has all of the trappings of a full-out brawl: attack ads, bitter recriminations between the candidates and a party chair who…
make a left turn at Bangladesh because it's in the public interest to put the team in Kansas
Trump was actually in KC, Missouri in 2018. Stable dotard with the best memory. x Part of his rally stump speech is making fun of Biden for not knowing where he is and noting that “when you do that, you can’t really recover.” https://t.co/o50CFTANEk — Annie Karni (@anniekarni) February 3, 2020 x Trump congratulated the…
Cook Political Report Shifts Kansas Senate Race to Lean Republican
cookpolitical.com/… With Secretary of State and former Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo declining to run for the Kansas Senate seat being vacated by Pat Roberts, Democrats may have their best chance to win in the Sunflower state since 1932. Cook’s Political Report has accordingly moved the race from likely Republican to lean Republican. With Pompeo not running,…
Kansas City Star/ProPublica report details how Kris Kobach swindled municipalities
You have to read this entire joint report by the Kansas City Star and ProPublica to fully understand the story. I will attempt to summarize the report in less than 50 words: Kansas Secretary of State and Donald Trump crony Kris Kobach convinced multiple U.S. municipalities to adopt anti-immigrant policies, none of the ordinances are…