The following release was just sent out by the Lisa Johnston campaign for US Senate.
After seventeen years in higher education teaching and supporting students, Lisa Johnston announced today that she will take a leave of absence from her position at Baker University to become a candidate for the United States Senate. “As a political outsider, [...]
Lisa Johnston (D) will be announcing her candidacy for US Senate Wednesday.
I wanted to let you know that I will be having an event to officially announce my candidacy on Wednesday, April 28th at 12pm in the Hudson Auditorium on the 2nd floor of the Nerman Museum at Johnson County Community College.
I will also be [...]
This week President Obama signed the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. This common-sense reform that will generate an estimated $80 billion in savings by bypassing for-profit lenders in the loan process and will instead provide loans directly to students. This reform makes government more efficient and invests the savings in the education of [...]
Everyone’s aware that Sam Brownback is conservative, Catholic, anti-choice, and not planning on voting for health care reform.
But there’s a big difference between being anti-choice and calling for martyrdom. Sam Brownback spent seven months living in a condo with Lou Engle, a preacher who’s said all gays are possessed by demons (and lives in the [...]
I’m not a huge believer in the SurveyUSA polls, but our friends at PrimeBuzz referenced it this morning.
A new poll from SurveyUSA shows the race at 37 percent for Jerry Moran, 34 percent for Todd Tiahrt. The margin of error is 4.6 percent, meaning that either number could swing by that much.
The new finding is in [...]
Late last month, the Washington Post revealed that it was in possession of a leaked document from the House Committee on Standards detailing ongoing investigations of more than 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Included as one of the members of Congress under investigation was KS-04 Congressman Todd Tiahrt, who is currently engaged in [...]
The Tiahrt campaign and others, yesterday, sent out tweets and e-mails noting that Jerry Moran had earned the dubious endorsement of the Communist Party USA. The Tiahrt e-mail said:
“While our opponent’s legislation to allow travel between the United States and Cuba has picked up the endorsement of the Communist Party USA, we are pleased to [...]
American Nurses Association (ANA) President Becky Patton sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on behalf of the nation’s nurses strongly supporting HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. ANA has always been and remains committed to “the principle that health care is a basic human right and [...]
KS-04 Congressman Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, picked up a key endorsement in the race to fill Sam Brownback’s seat in the United States Senate. Former United States Attorney General under President Bush, John Ashcroft, today endorsed Todd Tiahrt in the race against KS-01 Congressman Jerry Moran.
Last month we reported that Jerry Moran had used his membership [...]
Its so hard not to laugh when I hear the word/name Santorum. Evidently I’m not alone. Bless our friends over at The Pitch for reporting the gay love affair between Rick Santorum and Todd Tiahrt. I’ve long thought it was an exclusive relationship between Sam Brownback and Santorum but evidently Rick was two-timing Sam.
“I expected [...]