Tag: Laura Kelly
Shock and awe! Kansas voters nailed the coffin shut this week on the discredited Brownback era. They chose a bipartisan path forward by electing Democratic State Senator Laura Kelly as governor and soundly rejecting her…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas new Democratic governor-elect said Thursday that she will look to block enforcement of a new adoption law that she and LGBT-rights activists consider discriminatory, a sharp break with the states…
Democrat Laura Kelly fended off perhaps the most energizing and divisive figure in Kansas politics on Tuesday to become the next governor of Kansas. Kelly beat out self-described full-throttled conservative GOP nominee Kris Kobach, the…
Those blue dots in a sea of red were enough to elect Democrat Laura Kelly our next governor. Metropolitan Kansans in Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City, Lawrence and Manhattan pushed Sen. Kelly to a comfortable lead…
Two of the top three campaigns for Kansas governor are relying heavily on a single source of cash: their own money. The last major campaign reports filed before next weeks election revealed that, in the…
Any hints that Greg Orman, independent from Kansas City, would stop his ill-fated gubernatorial campaign were seemingly put to rest Tuesday when campaign finance reports showed the multi-millionaire has recently written personal checks for $180,000…
If economic development is seen as the cure-all for Kansas, then the expansion of Medicaid would be the ticket. If we feel weve lost our way in terms of moral compassion, then Medicaid expansion would…
Like Napoleon, Hillary Clintons long career ended in Waterloo. Only in her case, it was Waterloo, Iowa. She trailed Barack Obamas 2012 totals by 9 percent in Waterloos Black Hawk County, helping President Trump win…
Greg Orman is running for Kansas governor as an independent and unconventional candidate this year because he thinks he has something profound to offer citizens. So when people ask him how polls this year repeatedly…
Greg Orman would seem to be the definition of a self-made millionaire and successful businessman. Orman would like to add governor of Kansas to that resumé. It isnt going to happen. When Orman announced his…
