Watkins touts outsider status; Davis resents ties to national party

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Paul Davis says he’s frustrated, but he doesn’t really show it.
Sitting at a wooden desk in his campaign office in downtown Lawrence, the bespectacled Democrat matter-of-factly states that he’s irked by Republican efforts to tie him to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. But he quickly pivoted to money in politics.
“It’s frustrating because you have a super PAC that’s funded by billionaires that don’t live here,” Davis said. “And whenever that happens I think the voices of everyday Kansans get drowned out”
“I stated on the very first day that…