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Ethics Commission fines private citizen, allows corrupt politician to walk

The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission today fined a private citizen $7,500 for speaking to the media about a complaint he filed against state Sen. Dwayne Umbarger for misuse of campaign funds.
As far as the public knows, no hearing was conducted regarding the charges against state Sen. Umbarger. The commission has never publicly addressed the complaints [...]

Democrat Garcia backtracks on Gardasil

Like many, I didn’t understand why politicians thought they should mandate use of a recently approved vaccine for HPV (Human Papillomavirus.) Gardasil is a vaccine for HPV, which has been linked to cervical cancer. Soon after FDA approval however, recipients of the vaccine began to see some very serious side effects, including some deaths.
Even if [...]

Senate prescription for change: Take two pills in ‘moderation’?

Political change came to many parts of the country and Kansas as well, but leadership elections in the Kansas Senate showed little change.
A blog post by Americans for Prosperity is getting quite a bit of attention on the political blogosphere. The post proposes probable votes of Republican Senators in the recent leadership elections.
It wasn’t [...]

Party or Power? Elections tomorrow will tell…

On Monday, Republican and Democrat legislators will meet to decide who leads their respective caucuses. The Senate President and Speaker of the House have a considerable amount of power in deciding what legislation is considered, which committee a bill is sent to and whether or not a vote will even occur.
The most important of [...]

Kansas GOP launches website to fight Sebelius lies

The Kansas Republican Party has launched a new website to fight the lies being put out by Kathleen Sebelius’ Bluestem PAC. Click here to check out the new website, kansasfactcheck.org. And click here to check out the original Kansas Trunkline post.
Sebelius’ personal PAC came under fire yesterday from a non-partisan group for using [...]