efg on June 15th, 2008

Ken Marrero from The Sam Adams Alliance greeted right-center bloggers from Kansas at SamSphere Kansas held yesterday in Topeka. The SamSphere “About” page describes the Samsphere meetings held in Chicago in March, and in Denver in April and yesterday in Topeka:
SamSphere is a new media forum, hosted by the Sam Adams Alliance, [...]

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A picture on K-State’s web site today showed the tornado damage done to Ward Hall late last night, which houses the research reactor. There was no description of what the picture was on the web site.
Fox 4 KC quoted Mo Hosni, head of K-State’s department of mechanical and nuclear engineering:
“There is no danger from [...]

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Sue Gamble, who is Republican candidate for State Senate District 10, was featured in a 2004 “Republicans for Moore” ad in which she said:
“Please join me in helping re-elect Dennis Moore,” Sue Gamble, KS Board of Education
Dennis Moore is the Democratic Congressman from the Kansas Third Congressional District.

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First-term, Democratic State Rep Gene Rardin continues the use of tax-payer funded mailings for his re-election campaign. In the last seven weeks, FOUR franked mailings have been used to put Rardin’s picture in front of potential voters. While Rardin was directly responsible for Mailing 3 (see below), which is common for all [...]

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People in the Kansas City area can move across the state line and re-register to vote, and unknowingly become registered voters in both Kansas and Missouri. Such folks vote in their “new” state and are likely not even aware they are still registered in their “old” state. Legally, a voter cannot vote [...]

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Today, Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed one of her political contributors to be a new Johnson County District judge. Sebelius appointed David Wesley Hauber, a Democrat from Shawnee to be the replacement for Judge Janice D. Russell, who retired. Hauber was picked by Sebelius from a list of three Democrats nominated by the [...]

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Tonight there will be a debate in Kansas City at the Zenith Boosters Club: “Judges: Appoint or elect.” The issue of electing judges or appointing judges is a topic in both Kansas and Missouri this year. In Kansas some judges are elected (like in Sedgwick County), while others are appointed (like [...]

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[Updated] Gov. Sebelius’ reception for Dr. George Tiller at the Governor’s mansion while Tiller was under criminal investigation has been in the news for the past several days. News reports today focused on a late reimbursement to the State of Kansas for the event. Gov. Sebelius did not report auction items she donated [...]

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