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“ACORN is a criminal enterprise.” These are the five simple words that every conservative candidate officeholder should be repeating often and loudly. It’s about the fraud. It’s about the coordinated corruption. It’s about the effect on housing, the economy, and the entire electoral landscape. Does the GOP get it yet? At least one Republican candidate does. Kris Kobach, the former Bush administration national security/immigration enforcement official and constitutional lawyer, announced that he will run for Kansas Secretary of State last week. His prime motivation: stopping the ACORN racket: Kris Kobach’s desire to be Kansas Secretary of State can be summed...

After wondering for months about how serious Romney was on tackling illegal immigration and the strange endorsement of Tom Tancredo after dropping out of the race, Romney has issues the coup de grace. Mitt Romney has appointed Immigration Warrior Kris Kobach to his advisory staff. Who is Kris Kobach? Well you may remember Kris as the lead attorney in defending Hazleton, Pennsylvania's Illegal Immigration Relief Act. Kris has been a leader in the fight against illegal immigration in this country and his addition to the Romney team shows that he is deadly serious about ending illegal immigration.... After this appointment,...

The chairman of the Kansas Republican Party predicted Friday that immigration will be the defining domestic issue of the 2008 presidential campaign and said it could hurt early front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in the Republican primaries. Kris Kobach, a former chief immigration adviser in the U.S. Justice Department, said the comprehensive immigration reform bill killed in the Senate this week died because it was light on border enforcement and heavy on amnesty for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country. He called it primarily an amnesty bill "with a couple enforcement ornaments hanging on it."...

AG's ex-chief immigration adviser says it makes life in U.S. easier for terrorists The recasting of the Senate's immigration reform bill as national security legislation is a farce, contends a former chief adviser to the U.S. attorney general, arguing the plan offers alien terrorists easier ways to obtain legal status and carry out attacks on Americans. "The top priority in this bill is extending amnesty as quickly and easily as possible to as many illegal aliens as possible," writes Kris W. Kobach, professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. "The...

During the heat of a summer Republican primary, Kris Kobach promised to campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore like no one had before. He did. And he lost by a bigger margin than any Republican who has challenged Moore, whose political survival skills keep him in office in the Republican-dominated 3rd Congressional District. The latest win doesn't ensure an easy election for Moore in the future, but it does mean Republicans may have an even more difficult task of defeating him. There is chatter among Republicans on the Internet complaining that Kobach's conservative campaign emphasizing a gay-marriage amendment and...

Kobach campaign will keep donation from gun-rights advocate The Associated Press Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Kansas City, Mo. — Kris Kobach on Tuesday rebuffed a challenge from his Democratic opponent for Congress, U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, to return a campaign contribution made by a gun-rights advocate with ties to white supremacists. advertisement "Absolutely, we're going to keep it," said Kobach campaign manager Todd Abrajano of the $3,000 contribution. The Republican candidate for Kansas' 3rd Congressional district earlier had said he didn't see a reason to return the money and accused Moore of smear tactics. Moore's request came after a radio...

Colorado District 3: state Rep. Ken Salazar will defeat Greg Walcher, whose past support for transferring water from Western Slope to Denver is an Achilles Heel in this drought-plagued district. Dem. Pickup. Illinois District 8: Congressman Phil Crane has been caught napping, and the collapse of the Illinois G.O.P. will combine to elect Melissa Bean. Dem. Pickup. Kansas Distrcit 3: In a minor surprise, conservative Kris Kobach will very narrowly defeat Congressman Dennis Moore. A recount is possible. Rep. Pickup. Louisiana District 7: There will be a runoff between Lafayette surgeon Charles Boustany and Lake Charles state Senator Willie Mount,...

latestNEWS From Kris Kobach For Congress Campaign: With his campaign on the ropes, Dennis Moore pulled the dirtiest trick in the book. This week, he attempted to smear Kris Kobach's character by trying to connect him to "white supremacists". Dennis Moore sent out a false mailing to tens of thousands of female voters in the Third District. Even though this mailing was technically from the Kansas Democratic Party, make no mistake: Dennis Moore is behind this despicable attempt at character assassination. Last week, Dennis Moore issued two press releases with the exact same content as this mailing. More importantly, Dennis...

Democratic Rep. Dennis Moore has seized a 12-point lead over Republican challenger Kris Kobach in the race for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, a new poll shows. With a little more than a week left in the race, Moore is getting support from about 50 percent of the district's voters, a benchmark that some strategists think will be hard for Kobach to overcome. The poll of 600 registered voters likely to cast a ballot on Nov. 2 showed Kobach with 38 percent support, while 11 percent of voters were undecided. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points....

GOP Could Pick Up 5 House Seats by John Gizzi Posted Oct 22, 2004 With a week to go before Americans vote in all 435 congressional districts, Republicans look poised to expand their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, based largely on favorable redistricting since the 2000 census. In the swing states of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Republicans managed to dominate the redistricting process after the census, raising the number of safe Republican seats there. In Texas, a masterful (if controversial and belated) redistricting is now almost certain to yield the bulk of national Republican gains in this election...

WASHINGTON, Aug 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a transcript of remarks by Vice President Cheney at a breakfast for Congressional Candidate Kris Kobach: Overland Park Ritz Charles Overland Park, Kansas 9:19 A.M. CDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you all very much, thank you for that welcome. And, Kris, thank you that introduction. It's great back at Overland Park and the Kansas City area. Of course, this area is the home to great people, great barbecue, and the Kansas City Chiefs. (Applause.) I know the President stopped by in Wisconsin recently at...

I had the honor of going to a fund raiser this morning for Kris Kobach, who is running in the 3rd district in Kansas against Dennis Moore. Dick Cheney was the featured speaker.

In the Republican primary in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, Kris Kobach portrayed former Navy fighter pilot Adam Taff as a raging liberal who supported the “radical gay rights agenda.” In the general election, Kobach wants to portray Democratic U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore as a raging liberal who could vote against something as American as the Boy Scouts. It's the kind of campaign that Kobach has promised and what some are expecting as he tries to oust Moore from the seat he has held since 1998. “I think the vast majority of voters do not realize how radically liberal he has...

Cheney will host a breakfast fundraiser for Kris Kobach in Johnson County, KS on August 24th at the Overland Park Ritz Charles. Arrive at 8:00. Arrive at 8 for a 9 o'clock meal. $250 to be there and $2000 for photo with vp.

Conservative prepares for general election against 'Rat Congressman Dennis Moore

Kris Kobach now faces a puzzle that has confounded three previous Republican candidates in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District. How do you defeat U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, a Democrat, and end his astonishing record of beating the GOP three times in a heavily Republican district? Moore amazed Kansas Republicans six years ago by defeating an incumbent Republican congressman, Rep. Vince Snowbarger, an Olathe conservative. In two subsequent elections, he has proved that his 1998 victory wasn't a fluke. Three elections have shown that 50 percent of the voters appear comfortable with the 58-year-old congressman from Lenexa who spent 12 years as...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version August 06, 2004, 8:57 a.m. The Real Republican DealWill &#8220;Landslide Kobach&#8221; pull it off? In case you think your vote doesn't count, consider Kansas's 3rd congressional district. After Tuesday's Republican primary, first-time candidate Kris Kobach won 38,124 votes to 38,037 for 2002 GOP nominee, Adam Taff. (State Rep. Patricia Lightner captured the remaining 9,944 votes, or 11.54 percent of the total.) "Landslide Kobach" currently leads by just 87 votes or 44.28 percent to Taff's 44.18 percent. The 38-year-old University of Missouri, Kansas City professor of...

KS: Kobach on a roll, Taff adopts anti-gay position in advance of primary Adam Taff, a former fighter pilot, and Kris Kobach, a law professor are the two leading Republican candidates fighting it out to see who gets to advance to take on incumbent Democrat Dennis Moore in Kansas' 2nd District. Taff, who ran against Moore in 2002 and narrowly lost was expected to coast to the nomination, but has run into Kris Kobach, who is running as a "pure" conservative and emphasizing social issues. Taff, who has always positioned himself as a moderate, recently got creamed in a straw...