Well, that might be slightly overstated, but 11 GOP leaders ousted during the primaries for being too conservative? That doesn't sound like the Kansas I think of. Not that I spend much time thinking of Kansas. I just think of it as an ultra conservative right wing state.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/backlash-kansas-ousts-11-conservative-lawmakers-41087710
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A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative Kansas legislators have lost their seats as moderate Republicans made GOP primary races a referendum on education funding and the state's persistent budget woes.
Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce was among the lawmakers ousted amid a backlash against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies.
The voting occurred against the backdrop not only of the state's fiscal woes but ongoing legal and political disputes over funding for public schools. The state Supreme Court could rule by the end of the year on whether the Legislature is shorting schools on their state aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Kansas has struggled to balance its budget since the GOP-dominated Legislature slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback's urging to stimulate the economy. That's created concerns among educators about future spending on schools, even as many Republicans see the $4 billion-plus a year the state now spends as generous.
Bruce, from Nickerson, fell in his south-central Kansas district to Ed Berger, former president of Hutchinson Community College.
Bruce was a particular target because of his visibility as the Senate's No. 2 leader. He also had disagreements with the Senate's top leader, President Susan Wagle, of Wichita. Bruce is closer to Brownback than Wagle is.
"He seemed to care more about what the Brownback administration wanted rather than what the people he represented wanted," said Mary Dondlinger, an 80-year-old retired Hutchinson teacher and Republican who voted for Berger.
Five other conservative senators lost in races that spanned the state. So did five conservative House members, all of them from affluent Kansas City-area suburbs in Johnson County, the state's most populous, where voters have cherished good public schools for decades.
Good for them, the non-insane Republicans taking back control. Didn't think there were many of them left anymore, especially in an ultraconservative state like Kansas. Though it's odd to hear about a political shift and reading about the electorate going from extreme Republican to moderate Republican. What a massive shift that must be. What's the difference, exactly? Whether Jesus prefers an AR-15 or a glock?
Jesus wants an AR-15 and a pistol, but he wouldn't be caught dead with a Glock because Glocks ain't Murican. It's an AR-15 and a Colt 1911 for Jesus.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on August 03, 2016, 01:20:01 PM
Jesus wants an AR-15 and a pistol, but he wouldn't be caught dead with a Glock because Glocks ain't Murican. It's an AR-15 and a Colt 1911 for Jesus.
And Tannerite for the Holey Ghost.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 03, 2016, 01:28:12 PM
And Tannerite for the Holey Ghost.
And all the cops are packin' .40 S&W Glocks. Cop got pissed when I told him S&W stands for "short and weak". No sense of humor.
Quote from: Hydra009 on August 03, 2016, 11:24:08 AM
Good for them, the non-insane Republicans taking back control. Didn't think there were many of them left anymore, especially in an ultraconservative state like Kansas. Though it's odd to hear about a political shift and reading about the electorate going from extreme Republican to moderate Republican. What a massive shift that must be. What's the difference, exactly? Whether Jesus prefers an AR-15 or a glock?
It's minimal and situational, and I doubt if this predicts a swing of the pendulum, just a bit of infighting that caught my eye. Kansas will remain Kansas.
FINALLY Republicans are getting some fucking common sense back. Well no, they're not. The corporations realized they went too far and now can't get a fucking thing done, so they bought new politicians.
It's almost like none of the republicans read the report that the national party put out in 2008 (or was it 2012?) that explained exactly why the party had such a bad reputation among the public.
From the state that gave us the Kansas Horse Theft Committee dedicated to abolishing hitch hiking after there just weren't enough horse thieves to go around after the advent of the automobile.. Actually it was the Anti Horse Thief Association, but after the automobile they branched out to stamp out hitch hiking.. If you ever plan to hitch hike across the US by all means avoid Kansas.. I was stopped by police there in some town about 200 miles from the border and told I had to walk the rest of the way.. I did eventually get a ride..