Earl Glynn on January 31st, 2010

Steve Kraske in today’s Kansas City Star wrote about  “Tiahrt takes on Moran for comments about Tiahrt’s family“.  
Congressman Todd Tiahrt made these comments as part of Kansas Day activities in Topeka on Saturday.  Here is a video of Tiahrt’s remarks:

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Earl Glynn on December 13th, 2009

Kansas Clips from Thursday through Sunday:
Kansas Reporter

State revenue drops 10.2 percent in November
Overland Park looks for free help to stretch budget

Watchdogs

Kansas:

More Questions — and Answers — on School Funding
FDIC announces closing of Overland Park bank

Nebraska:

Nebraska Bipolar on Stimulus Spending
State Cars Hit Tax Dollars Hard

Texas:  Government agencies nearly double their attempts to withhold records
Mackinac Center:

Soft Corruption [...]

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Earl Glynn on September 8th, 2009

[Updated Sept 13] According to a Show-Me Institute Policy Pulse blog post about 2500 attended the United We Stand — Freedom Fest at Theis Park in Kansas City on Saturday.  Participants were from both Missouri and Kansas.  See videos of the event below.

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Earl Glynn on September 2nd, 2009

The Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) web site announced a Health Care Can’t Wait Rally at 5th and Minnesota in Kansas City, KS from 6 to 7 PM tonight, which was near Congressman Dennis Moore’s Office in Wyandotte County.
HCAN’s event page said “our partners are making sure Congress hears from voters all across the [...]

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Don Jordan, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, sent a letter to an unknown list of Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) providers recently asking for information on behalf of the Service Employees International Union/SEIU including:

attendants’ names,
addresses,
telephone numbers.

Read the text of the letter below (or click on the [...]

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My understanding of Overland Park police crowd tactics is to keep opposing political groups on opposite sides of the street and away from intersections. They try to keep opposition groups separated diagonally by an intersection whenever possible. The police try to keep traffic moving –  and slow traffic has almost caused accidents during recent rallies [...]

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[Updated 10 PM].  Yesterday Congressman Dennis Moore held an invitation-only meeting at Johnson County Community College.  Apparently Dennis Moore feels the average citizen has little interest in what the government may do with health care in this country.
Today Moore addressed the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce at their luncheon. This was not a free event [...]

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Last night Mike Nellis from the Kansas Democratic Party retweeted about Congresswoman’s Lynn Jenkins comments earlier in the day that “Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope”:
MikeNellis: Nice catch! RT @linesj13: Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) @RepLynnJenkins uses racial terminology in healthcare townhall: http://tinyurl.com/mqb8y7
8/26/2009 10:09 PM
MikeNellis: RT @manspeaker: I beleive @replynnjenkins needs [...]

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Congressman Todd Tiahrt from Wichita held a health care town hall meeting in Overland Park, KS on Saturday.  Later he spoke to a group of Second District Republicans in Topeka, who were meeting at the State Capitol:
I just got back from a health care town hall meeting. My ninth. It was in Johnson [...]

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Earl Glynn on August 21st, 2009

We’ve all seen pictures on TV  from Town Hall meetings and the debate over health care.
In our area, Congressman Dennis Moore refuses to hold such a Town Hall meeting over security concerns, but two other Kansas Congressmen running for the U.S. Senate have or will have Town Hall meetings.  In June Congressman Jerry Moran held [...]

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