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Tea Party threatens to take ball and leave schoolyard!

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September 30, 2014, 07:33 pm
Tea Party revolt imperils Kansas



By Alexandra Jaffe

Kansas Tea Party supporters are threatening to sit out the state’s pivotal Senate election, potentially dealing another blow to the reelection hopes of Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.).

Though schisms within the GOP base rarely have such an outsized impact on a general election contest, the lack of support from the conservative base could be devastating to the vulnerable Roberts’s chances against surging independent Greg Orman.


Multiple sources tell The Hill that a group of Tea Party leaders in the state are meeting Wednesday to try to decide whether they should go to bat for the incumbent this fall or sit out of the race entirely.
 

loomixguy

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So? These people want what's best for Kansas, and that's NOT Roberts. As far as the Senate seat, I wouldn't worry too much. The R's will have the House and the Senate after November 4. :wink:
 

Mike

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Democrats Try To Take Ball And Leave But Law Says No

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A key contest in the fight for control of the Senate could turn on the outcome of an arcane legal argument Monday over whether Democrats must field a candidate against struggling Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts.

The case before a Topeka court centers on whether a state election law requires Democrats to pick a new candidate after ex-nominee Chad Taylor withdrew earlier this month. Some Democrats pushed Taylor out, viewing independent candidate Greg Orman as the stronger rival for Roberts and hoping to avoid a split in the anti-Roberts vote that would help the GOP incumbent stay in office.

Republicans need to gain six seats for a Senate majority, and the GOP has always counted on the 78-year-old Roberts winning in a state that has elected only Republicans to the chamber since 1932. Orman, a 45-year-old Olathe businessman, is running as a centrist — promising to caucus with whichever party has a majority and play kingmaker if neither does. Roberts has struggled after a bruising primary and questions about his residency in Kansas.

Taylor had to petition the Kansas Supreme Court to force Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Roberts supporter, to remove the Democrat's name from the Nov. 4 ballot. Minutes after the high court ruling, a disgruntled voter sued the Democratic Party to get a replacement on the ballot, and Kobach is attempting to intervene again.

Kobach has said the case must be resolved by Oct. 1 so that counties can print thousands of ballots and people can begin early voting from Oct. 15. He said his goal is enforcing state election law "exactly as it's written."

But Kansas Democratic Party Chairwoman Joan Wagnon said of finding a new candidate, "I don't see how, in any kind of practical sense, you can pull this off."

The law in question says that if a candidate vacancy occurs after the primary, it "shall be filled by the party committee" of the district or the state, depending on the office. A three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court must decide whether the language means all vacancies must be filled, or whether the law simply spells out who fills a vacancy if a party wishes to do it.

A Libertarian is on the ballot and is likely to draw a few percentage points of the vote. A Democratic candidate — even one who doesn't campaign at all — could siphon vital votes from Orman and allow Roberts to prevail.

"There are going to be some Democrats out there who wander into the polling place and see a D and vote for the D," said Bob Beatty, a political science professor at Washburn University of Topeka. "It could be 5 to 10 percent, and that's a lot if Orman wants to win."
 
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loomixguy said:
So? These people want what's best for Kansas, and that's NOT Roberts. As far as the Senate seat, I wouldn't worry too much. The R's will have the House and the Senate after November 4. :wink:

Is that what they are going to do in 2016 when the (R's) don't pick the right person to run against Hillary...
Should we just automatically count Kansas electoral votes for Hillary already :???:
 

loomixguy

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Oldtimer said:
loomixguy said:
So? These people want what's best for Kansas, and that's NOT Roberts. As far as the Senate seat, I wouldn't worry too much. The R's will have the House and the Senate after November 4. :wink:

Is that what they are going to do in 2016 when the (R's) don't pick the right person to run against Hillary...
Should we just automatically count Kansas electoral votes for Hillary already :???:

I don't think Hillary will run. Mr. Gowdy is seeing to that. :wink:
 

iwannabeacowboy

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She saw to it, but it's just taken someone with integrity and intelligence to prove it after she;s attempted to delete any all pertinent legal documents of her past.

Like someone else that OT voted for happily.
 

Steve

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this is funny... a person who took his ball and voted for some loser in the presidential election is now whining because others have real principles and do not want to vote for a rino,.. let alone add a vote to the opposition...

ironically funny... :roll:
 

Mike

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Steve said:
this is funny... a person who took his ball and voted for some loser in the presidential election is now whining because others have real principles and do not want to vote for a rino,.. let alone add a vote to the opposition...

ironically funny... :roll:
It is. OT didn't think out his title to the thread very well...................
 

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