The Sam Adams Alliance in Chicago recently unveiled a new online resource about the judicial system in the United States and called this a “Judgepedia” — a Wikipedia of judicial information. The Kansas page, the Kansas Judgepedia, is being built now to collect information about the judiciary in Kansas. Read the rest of this entry [...]
A recent five-part series by the Topeka Capital-Journal identified several serious problems in the effectiveness of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. This was a welcome series about the problems with this Board, but the series failed to ask about the political money and allegiance of the Board members that contributed nearly $25,000 to [...]
Is former Kansas Democratic Party chair and master fundraiser, Dennis Langley, the mastermind behind using congressional district party committees to allow PACs to send $25,000 to the Kansas Democratic Party every year when the limit is $5000? Why is Langley still actively involved in Kansas politics and fundraising when he votes in South Dakota? Read [...]
Kansas Democratic Party Disenfranchises Duly Elected Treasurers of Congressional District Committees
A review of state party, recognized and congressional district committees show Democrats have a large political money edge in the state party and congressional district committees, while Republicans have an edge in the recognized Senate and House committees. Democrats continue to use a scheme to channel money to the state party, which may be technically [...]
In its Jan 10, 2008 report, the #1 Kansas PAC (from Missouri) raised over $1 million, spent almost half-a-million, and has over three-quarter million in the bank. The top 15 PACs account for nearly 60% of contributions received by PACs, about half of the expenditures, and over 55% of the PAC money in the bank [...]
Continue reading about Political Money Rankings of 228 Kansas PACs
In their Jan 10, 2008 reports filed with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, 228 Kansas Political Action Committees (PACs) reported receiving a total of $4,394,938, spending $2,806,104, and collectively have $3,718,387 in the bank for the 2008 elections. Which PACs have “Errors and Omissions” in their reports that should be fixed? Read the rest of [...]
Why did the Kansas press give this new information resource such little coverage? No article about KanView can be found by the Kansas City Star. Read the rest of this entry …
Continue reading about KanView: A New, Online Database of Revenues and Expenditures in Kansas
