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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[Updated] The election process is confusing enough to voters without intentional misrepresentation via new media on Twitter and blogs.
Yesterday, someone used Kris Kobach’s name to setup a fake Twitter account, which could be used to send out Tweets that appear to be from the Kansas Secretary of State candidate. Obviously such messages could be used [...]
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Last week the Wichita Eagle’s blog speculated about a Tiahrt-Glickman rematch in a senatorial bid in 2010.
The Eagle’s blog posting mentioned that former U.S. Congressman Dan Glickman from Wichita admitted he was not a great fundraiser. So where might Glickman get money to run for U.S. Senate in Kansas?
Today, Andy Stern, the head of the [...]
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Who knew Darla Jaye from KMBZ’s 980 Live with Darla Jaye was running for public office?
Many were wearing a variety of stickers at the Olathe Republican Party Picnic and Straw Poll on Saturday. Some stickers said “Draft Darla for U.S. Congress” — but she’s not really running.
From Darla’s Facebook page on Sunday:
I asked if there [...]
The Kansas Republican Party met near Salina on Saturday for their summer meeting.
Several Republican leaders addressed the group, including U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, who will be a candidate for Kansas Governor in 2010.
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A reception was held today to honor Karen Browning, who retired as Assistant Johnson County Election Commissioner after more than 40 years of service with the Johnson County Election Office.
Browning said she had a sense of the importance of voting long before she joined the Election Office staff.
“My folks always talked about voting and how [...]
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A few Kansans will vote today in local elections for city and school officials in many areas. Turnout will likely be light and few problems are expected.
Kansans last went to the polls statewide in Nov 2008 during the presidential election. Few problems were reported and few, if any, prosecutions have occurred from any [...]
Finding possible voter/election problems by comparing voter registration data to election results is quite difficult in Kansas because different precinct codes are used by different computer systems. I made that claim at a recent Secretary of State’s study group meeting about the future of elections in Kansas, and gave Allen County as an example of [...]
Today, Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh held the first meeting of a study group he formed to study the future of elections in Kansas.
Secretary Thornburgh invited several key groups to the meeting to discuss what elections might look like in perhaps 20 to 30 years. After the introductory remarks by Secretary Thornburgh, Brad [...]
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Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest population estimates for July 1, 2008. USA Today shows this nice summary table of all the states.
Kansas shows a 4.2% increase in population from 2000-2008 with 113,318 new residents. In just the last year Kansas added 24,752 new residents, which was a 0.9% growth rate and ranked [...]
Continue reading about Kansas census estimate up, registered voters down over last three years
