TOPEKA — Kansas voters may have elected Democrat Laura Kelly to the governor's office, but she will have to deal with a more conservative Legislature as a result of Tuesday's elections. That could make it harder for her to push through her top legislative priorities, which included ...
TOPEKA — A new poll released this week suggests the Kansas governor's race is still statistically tied, despite President Donald Trump's high-profile campaign rally on behalf of Republican Kris Kobach earlier this month. The survey, by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, shows Kobach ...
TOPEKA — Former Kansas governor and Obama-era cabinet secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered an interesting observation when she spoke to a Lawrence audience last week. Responding to a question about whether she would ever run for public office again, she gave an emphatic "no," and then offered ...
TOPEKA — One can only guess that there was an awkward moment Saturday when President Donald Trump landed at Forbes Field in Topeka and rode to the Kansas Expocentre for a political rally with Gov. Jeff Colyer in the limousine. Trump, of course, came to Topeka for a political rally on behalf ...
TOPEKA - A new poll released by Kansas Democrats on Thursday shows the race for Kansas governor is still a dead heat between Republican Kris Kobach and Democrat Laura Kelly, with independent candidate Greg Orman showing a distant third. The survey, conducted Sept. 12-13, asked Kansas voters ...
TOPEKA – Political candidates often make exaggerated or hard-to-verify statements during public debates, and Wednesday’s Kansas gubernatorial debate was no exception. Here's a more in-depth look at some of the claims Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Democratic state Sen. Laura ...
TOPEKA - Former Republican Gov. Bill Graves on Tuesday formally endorsed Democrat Laura Kelly in the 2018 race for Kansas governor. “Laura Kelly is the only Democrat I have ever endorsed for public office,” Graves said in a statement released by the Kelly campaign. “And the reason I’m ...
TOPEKA - Gov. Jeff Colyer's office announced Tuesday that communications director Kendall Marr has stepped down and that press secretary Kara Zeyer, formerly Kara Fullmer, will move into that position. Both Marr and Zeyer joined Colyer's office in 2017 when Colyer was still lieutenant governor ...
One of the more interesting side notes to the Kansas Democratic Party's "Demofest" convention in Wichita this past weekend was the surprise sighting of a Republican political celebrity, former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. In what appeared to be a bizarre coincidence, both he and former ...
TOPEKA - After a primary election campaign that has lasted more than a year for some candidates, polls finally opened this morning and all candidates had left to do was sit back and see whether their strategy worked. That's especially true in the Republican primary for governor, where the top ...
TOPEKA - Conservative Republicans, including some with backing from the Kansas Chamber's political action committee, appear aimed at retaking ground they lost in the 2016 elections by challenging moderates in the upcoming primaries on Tuesday. Conservatives suffered significant damage in 2016, ...
TOPEKA — The Republican primary for governor in Kansas got a little more interesting over the weekend when Kris Kobach, the current secretary of state, released an internal poll showing him nine points ahead of incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer, while Colyer picked up the endorsement of former U.S. ...
TOPEKA - When voters in Kansas go to the polls, state law requires them to show a government-issued photo ID to prove they are who they say they are. But when they file to run for an office, they're given a little more latitude about how their names appear on the ballot. That became evident ...
TOPEKA — Republican Senate President Susan Wagle on Wednesday stripped fellow GOP Sen. Barbara Bollier, R-Mission Hills, from her leadership position on a key committee after Bollier endorsed two Democrats in the upcoming elections. Wagle, of Wichita, issued a statement Wednesday calling ...
TOPEKA — Although abortion has been a lightning-rod issue that has been dividing the Kansas Republican Party for decades, in the 2018 primaries, it’s an issue that threatens to divide Kansas Democrats, as well. In the primary race for governor, state Sen. Laura Kelly has been blasting one ...
TOPEKA — State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, R-Leavenworth, told reporters Thursday that he did not intend to disparage nonwhite, non-European cultures earlier this month when he said "Outside of western civilization, there is only barbarism." “I think the interpretation you mention, I think, is ...
Monday's decision from the Kansas Supreme Court on school finance may be just what it takes to put two seemingly unrelated issues back on the table at the Kansas Legislature: taxing internet sales and sports gambling. To refresh, the court ruled Monday in the long-running case Gannon v. Kansas ...
Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer on Wednesday declared himself the "front-runner" in the race for the GOP nomination, saying he is leading in the polls and that he has raised more money than any other candidate in the race. His claim about leading in the polls might be arguable by some. [One poll, ...
A past president of the state NAACP has filed to run for Kansas insurance commissioner. Nathaniel McLaughlin, of Kansas City, Kan., headed the statewide civil rights group from 2011 until 2015. He is a retired executive of Sodexo Healthcare Services, an international management company that ...
Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer announced Monday that he has chosen Goodland businesswoman Jenifer Sanderson as his lieutenant governor running mate. Sanderson is the owner of a Sonic Drive-In franchise in Goodland and is a past chair of ...