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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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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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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Ever have a question about federal political campaigns, or the Federal Election Commission?
Next week the Federal Election Commission is having training classes in Kansas City for anyone interested in learning more about federal laws dealing with political campaigns, federal PACs, or party committees.
See the FEC flyer for this Kansas City event along with information about [...]

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Richard Nadler was a political activist, author, commentator, TV personality in the Kansas City area for the last twenty years.  Nadler unexpectedly died on May 30, 2009.
Jack Cashill gave a tribute to Nadler at the Olathe Republican Party picnic on June 27, 2009.  Cashill  described Nadler as the “defiantly inappropriate Republican.”
Cashill presented the first Rich [...]

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Yesterday Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele met with about 70 county, district and state Republican “grass roots” Republican leaders in Overland Park.  Some traveled from as far away as Wichita and Salina to attend the event.
Steele introduced himself: “I am from you. I am grassroots. I started out licking stamps, knocking on [...]

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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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President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is his choice for the new Health and Human Services secretary.
Also yesterday, a news story by Kansas Health Institute’s News Service, Special funding arrangement questioned, revealed Gov. Sebelius may have granted special favors to one program, Community Living Opportunities (CLO),  which specializes in caring for people [...]

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The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (often called the McCain-Feingold Act) allows state and local political parties to use nonfederal funds for the purchase or construction of party office buildings.  McCain-Feingold said that state law governs exclusively in regulating spending on state and local party buildings.  Prior to McCain-Fiengold, this was never an issue [...]

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Earl Glynn on February 1st, 2009

Kansas Republicans met in Topeka on Friday and Saturday as part of the yearly celebration of the birthday of Kansas, which turned 148 on Thursday.
The highlight of the weekend is the State Central Committee meeting, when new officers are elected.  Before that meeting, several receptions and district meetings serve as a platform for elected officials [...]

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