Well folks, the Kansas Democratic Party has finally found its 2010 candidate for Governor, former California businessman and now Olathe resident, Tom Wiggans. While initially it was suspected Wiggans would run for U. S. Senate, it was reported by Levi last Friday, that his sights were now set on a gubernatorial bid. Wiggans’ campaign put a website up: wiggansforkansas.com. A YouTube video has also been released:
The campaign’s press release gave Wiggans’ reasons for running for Governor:
Our state needs a Governor who can speak the language of business, jobs and prosperity – not a career politician like Senator Brownback who’s spent nearly 15 years in Washington, D.C. as Congress added over $7 trillion to our national debt.
Kansans deserve a full-time Governor – someone who will remain committed to the job. In 2007 while Senator Brownback was running for President, he missed thirty-one-percent of the votes cast in the Senate. Brownback had the seventh-worst attendance record of all one hundred United States Senators. If the rest of us missed work thirty-one percent of the time, we’d be fired. Yet, like too many career politicians, Sam Brownback thinks missing work ought to earn him a promotion.
The year-long wait is over. We have our candidate to take on Sam Brownback. Come back in the days ahead as the Forward Kansas staff will have more to follow up on with this story.
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