Think and Ink: Uncle Sam’s Money Giveaway
“Hey! That’s My Hard-Earned Money!”
“Ah, the cost of free money…”
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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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On Monday I published a watchdog.org article about my study of nearly 100,000 records from the Statement of Disbursements about all members of the U.S. House:
Top Food & Other Expenditures by Members of U.S. House in 2009 Q3
Since then several members of the national press have reported on this story or the numbers:
House members eat [...]
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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 [...]
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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In June the Center for Responsive Politics, the organization behind OpenSecrets.org, published an article, Blue Dog Bark Backed by Insurers, which describes how the “Blue Dog” Democrats in the House compare to non-Blue Dog Democrats in their contribution receipts from various health-related sectors.
How does Blue Dog Congressman Dennis Moore from Kansas compare to other Blue [...]
Congressman Dennis Moore has been avoiding “Town Hall” meetings with constituents for months, especially since the first protest rally at his office in February after the huge 787 billion stimulus bill was passed by Congress with little debate and plenty of “pork.”
With many wanting to hear from him on a variety of issues, last week [...]
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