Kansas Meadowlark

In 2006 two Kansas non-profits spent about $450,000 to knock off certain members of the Kansas House and the Kansas Attorney General, and succeeded in several of the contests.

To investigate these and other Kansas non-profits, in mid-April 2008 the Meadowlark requested a DVD from the IRS of all IRS 990s for all Kansas non-profits for the last three years. The IRS cashed the check for the required payment on April 17 and then spent three months developing amnesia about the request. Yesterday the IRS said they had not received payment. (more…)

The Hill is reporting that Rep. Dennis Moore’s chief of staff may have violated House rules last week by circulating a campaign-related job posting from his House E-mail account:

Howard Bauleke circulated a posting for jobs with the Kansas Coordinated Campaign, an election-year organization initiative run by the Kansas Democratic Party. Rules prohibit the use of House resources for campaign purposes. …

Moore spokeswoman Rebecca Black said the e-mail was probably an oversight.

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The first B2 bomber to crash was called the “Spirit of Kansas,” which was built in 1989 at a cost of $1.2 billion. Read the rest of this entry …