Kansas 2nd District Representative Steve Watkins has had an off-the-wall week:
Last Thursday evening, the Kansas Republican Party set up a conference call among various officials to discuss Watkins.
The topic?
Well...no one seems to want to say.
But to put it...diplomatically...many on Twitter -- again, not exactly a place with footnotes and fact checkers -- have said that the rumor is that...
The New Yorker is famous for its pithy cartoons that don't actually make you laugh. (Remember when Elaine Benes drew one on Seinfeld?) But it also dives into jounalisming from time to time. This time it leaves the bustling streets of Manhattan to go to Wichita to explain how racist Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is.
Oh, you didn't know...
Former Kansas Republican Party Chair Amanda Adkins will announce her run for Kansas's Third District Congressional seat next month, according to former Kansas City Star reporter Brad Cooper, who now runs the Sunflower State Journal.
Adkins has not been hiding her interest in running for the seat, and is regularly mentioned in articles that note Sara Hart-Weir also running for...
First, for your Monday, the latest in Barbecue Wear, from Senate candidate Kris Kobach:
I don't get it.
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For the Kansas City Star, it's one down and at least one more to go, before trying to move on to Kathleen Sebelius.
Eh?
Well, the Star was nearly overjoyed by the news that Barry Grissom "had his head in the sand" while his staff...
After assuring Kansans that a U.S. Senate run was "off the table," United States Secretary of State, and former KS-04 Congressman, Mike Pompeo seems to be giving newsies additional reasons to think a campaign is the next course coming.
The Wall Street Journal's in-house Pompeo follower, Lindsay Wise, wrote yesterday that a Pompeo campaign still seemed to be a strong...
Governing magazine, a staple in many state capital agency offices, announced last week that it will be shutting down this fall:
Governing has proven to be unsustainable as a business in today’s media environment. We will cease publication of the monthly print magazine after September, and we will be ramping down our web presence and the rest of our operations...
Kansas Thrid District Rep. Sharice Davids Tweets today:
https://twitter.com/RepDavids/status/1159170469641314309
It’s been 161 days since the House passed H.R. 8, a bipartisan, common sense bill to institute universal background checks on gun purchases.
And it's been 161 days of no action from Mitch McConnell. 161 days of more lives being cut short by gun violence.
No more.
Now, which "lives being cut short" is...
As they are wont to do, the Kansas City Star Editorial Board came out and hammered Kansas U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach for his intro campaign video.
See the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OWFiUGCp8
The Star does something of a touchdown dance over the Kobach campaign, arguing that they were right all along during the Gubernatorial race. And they question his video props and...
Here's one for you out of the Democrat playbook.
Democrat political consultant -- and former candidate for the State Legislature -- Elizabeth Arnold, went on a Twitter rant about the gender, age and attractiveness of one of the candidates for Kansas's third district House seat.
Here's a compilation of Arnold's thread:
Do you think it's a coincidence Kansas Republicans are recruiting attractive...
With Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's unoffically-official drop-out from the Kansas Senate campaign, some in the race are ready to plow forward.
State Treasurer Jake LaTurner became the rabbit of the race.
Dave Lindstrom knew he had to get his name out.
Kris Kobach took the don't-look-back dive.
And then State Senate President Susan Wagle made her decision -- after a call to...
