Someone is recruiting Democrats to run for U.S.Sen. Sam Brownback's soon-to-be-vacant 2nd Congressional District seat on Craigslist with ads like this one.Are Kansas Democrats that hard up for candidates in 2010 that they had to take to an online classified ad? Nope. "We didn't [post it]," Andrea White, communications director for the
Kansas Democratic Party, told me this morning. ""Somebody's being
funny."The ads are written pretty straight (see here, here, here and here). The first ad appeared
We don't think Rep. Todd Tiahrt, who represents Kansas' 4th Congressional District (a south-easternish chunk of the state that includes Wichita), got quite enough recognition over the past week.Of course, we noted on Monday the Congressman's gasp-inducing speech on the floor of the U.S. House, where, arguing against federal funding for abortion, he suggested that the president's and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' mothers might have aborted them had such funds been available when th
I'm Sam Brownback, and I'm ready to take you on, you, you ... who are you?Last week, the Kansas Democratic Party was celebrating a drop in approval ratings for Sen. Sam Brownback, who is leaving the Senate to run for governor. "In September, public support for Brownback dropped 6 points," the Dems said, heralding new numbers from SurveyUSA. "More notably, one in ten moderates withdrew their support from Brownback during September. With an approval rate of only 48 percent, Brownback has
