Neat FEC Tool for Tracking Indepdendent Expenditures

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Tuesday August 05, 2014 · 7:12 AM PDT

2014/08/05 · 07:12

The Federal Election Commission has two, interactive maps connected to data that should be very useful in tracking independent expenditures on Senate and House races. Senate or House races and the current and two most recent cycles can be selected.

Selecting the State for Senate or State and then House District gives a table which can be sorted in various ways and an advanced search function, as well.

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Monday August 04, 2014 · 6:03 AM PDT

2014/08/04 · 06:03

With the August 5 primary only a day away, some thoughts of the state of democracy in Kansas seem appropriate. An article in Friday's Wichita Eagle predicting low turnout for Tuesday's primary, despite heated US Senate and House Republican primaries, indicates that there is a real problem. Here are some thoughts.

The biggest issue, in my opinion, is the restrictive voter ide ntification laws enacted by Secretary of Sate Kris Kobach, but there are others.

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Thursday July 31, 2014 · 7:23 AM PDT

2014/07/31 · 07:23

There are now two recent polls with very contrasting results out on the Kansas Governors race. A poll from Survey USA showed the Democratic team of Paul Davis and Jill Docking with a 48-40 lead over incumbent Republican Governor Sam Brownback and Lt. Governor Jeff Coyler. Then, on Sunday a poll done by British YouGov polling firm for the New York Times and CBS News showed Brownback with 47 to 37 lead, and, including leaners, at 52 to 40 lead.

Naturally, this has prompted some questions. How can such divergent results, around a 20 percent swing, be explained? Which poll is most reliable?

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Thursday July 10, 2014 · 5:09 AM PDT

2014/07/10 · 05:09

With the Kansas primary only a month away, it looks like Senator Pat Roberts has "Lugared" himself with what the right-wing media outlet Breitbart.com called a "Freudian slip" in an interview on radio station KCMO and reported on July 3 in the DC insider newspaper The Hillsaying he returns home to Kansas “every time I get an opponent” and proclaiming that he doesn't measure his voting record by "how many times I sleep wherever it is." Read More

700 Kansans Converge on KC Saturday for Town Hall on Immigration Reform

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Friday June 14, 2013 · 6:42 PM PDT

2013/06/14 · 18:42

36 Organizations, Community, Faith, Labor Leaders Will Urge Senator Moran to Stand with Immigrant Families

Kansas City, KS.-- This Saturday, 36 organizations and over 700 community, faith and labor leaders will travel to Kansas City for a People’s Town Hall on Immigration Reform, the largest event of it’s kind in Kansas history. Leaders are hosting this public meeting to ask Kansas elected officials, especially Senator Jerry Moran, to support comprehensive immigration reform and create a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million people currently undocumented in the US.

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Friday April 20, 2012 · 6:46 PM PDT

2012/04/20 · 18:46

Ted Koppel is a widely respected newsman, but this week in an NPR interview he channeled crazy right-wing Congressman Alan West who has been widely ridiculed for claiming that 80 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are members of the Communist Party. The standard form of this smear has been to claim that members of the Progressive Caucus are members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Again and sadly, untrue. The inability of the far right to distinguish between liberals, progressives, democratic socialists, and Communists is a habitual deficiency that is, I suspect, scoffed at by the elite media like Koppel and NPR.

Koppel was talking about Sunday's French Presidential election, but he showed a similar ignorance of French politics.

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Tuesday July 26, 2011 · 5:29 PM PDT

2011/07/26 · 17:29

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch , appearing on American Family Radio's “Today's Issues” on Monday seems to have said that the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was a “false flag” operation.

Spencer spent much of the interview countering a New York Times article “Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.”which discussed the influence of Spencer and other counter-jihadists on Breivik.

Spencer, however, went beyond putting distance between the counter jihadists and Breivik to advance a bizarre conspiracy theory.

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Wednesday July 13, 2011 · 9:11 AM PDT

2011/07/13 · 09:11

Governor Sam Brownback has already used his administration to make Kansas one of the most social conservative in the nation. Kansas has become the first state to end public funding of the arts and has narrowly missed being the first state to do end abortions.

Now, Brownback is developing a plan to promote marriage. To head up this effort, Brownback has hired Robert Siedlecki. Ironically, Siedlicki is divorced, but he is an advocate of "faith-based" solutions and an opponent of gay marriage. And, he's from Florida, as if Kansas has a shortage of religious right activists.

Tim Carpenter reportedrecently some juicy details about a secret April meeting to design Brownback's marriage agenda. The Topeka Capital-Journal uncovered some information on Brownback's plans through a Kansas Open Records request.

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Sunday October 31, 2010 · 3:29 PM PDT

2010/10/31 · 15:29

Pompeo illegal,racist billoard 2 In August, Republican candidate Mike Pompeo was embroiled in a controversy when his official campaign tweet recommended"a good read" that attacked Democratic candidate Raj Goyleas a "turban topper." Pompeo apologized, sort of. Pompeo claimed that a staffer had inadvertently linked to the wrong story." Goyle, a second term state representative, is the son of Indian immigrants. While a some experts pointed out that the Pompeo denial lacked creditability, it was generally accepted.

Now, just days before the election, the Pompeo campaign has a new electronic billboard which proclaims "True Americans Vote for Pompeo."

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