The Forward Kansas team is again holding another Healthcare for Kansans rally on December 5 in Wichita. As you’ll remember, FK held a successful rally in Shawnee, KS earlier last month on this very issue (see pictures of the November 7 rally here). We’ll again be hitting the streets, only this time in Wichita and [...]
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Perennial U.S. Senate and Presidential candidate Alan Keyes will be in Wichita on November 18th November 21st to endorse Jim Anderson for the KS-04 Congressional seat. Keyes has made a full time living out of running for office. According to Wiki, “[h]e ran for President in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2008, and was a Republican [...]
Yesterday, I wrote a post about the Wichita Eagle selling out and pandering to the teabaggers who made a brief appearance in my fair city of Wichita on Wednesday at Lawrence Dumont Stadium. In that post, I wrote:
“The astroturf movement is paid for by David Koch of Wichita-based Koch Industries to the tune of $20 [...]
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to head on down to the local stop of the Tea Party Express II: Countdown to Judgment Day (sounds ominous enough) at Lawrence Dumont Stadium in Wichita. The astroturf movement is paid for by David Koch of Wichita-based Koch Industries to the tune of $20 million $12,906,712 of his [...]
From the Associated Press this morning…
Three Republican Kansas lawmakers are proposing a constitutional amendment they say would protect patients’ rights to consult with their own doctors on health care decisions.
State Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook and House members Peggy Mast and Brenda Landwehr held news conferences Tuesday to announce what they call the “Health Care Freedom [...]
The 7th Annual Tallgrass Film Festival takes place this weekend in Wichita, KS.
It is a 3 day Independent film festival taking place in 6 different downtown locations. It is the largest film festival in Kansas and features over 100 films. Visit the website to purchase tickets, see the schedule of films, you can even [...]
Featured on the DailyKos today is a KS-04 Roundup of all the challengers for the Congressional seat, and the rather amazing fundraising feat performed by Kansas State Representative Raj Goyle in his bid for the KS-04 Congressional seat.
Important to note: Goyle outraised four-out-of-the-five Republican challengers–combined–for the KS-04 seat, amounting to nearly $3,500 per day in [...]
This past weekend the Kansas Democratic Party hosted Demofest in Wichita, KS.
We here at Forward Kansas brought you some live coverage of Demofest including interviews with possible candidates and speeches given during the weekend. There was also much conversation on twitter about the weekend with the hashtag #demofest09 (in case your curious [...]
It appears that State Senator Chris Steineger, a Wyandotte County Democrat and apparently a Kansas gubernatorial hopeful, is hosting a beer summit in Wichita on Friday at 5:00 pm at a fine local drinking establishment, The Anchor.
Steineger began tweeting random Wichita folks early this afternoon–many of whom have little-to-no interest in politics, or Democrats for [...]
Those who choose to put their lives in danger with their jobs, whether they be troops overseas, firefighters, or officers of the law are indeed the best representatives of our country. I join those with prayers for the Etheridge family, and all of those whose lives are put in danger every day simply by doing their jobs.
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