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Independent Orman officially sets in motion campaign for Kansas governor
gctelegram ^ | 12-5-2017 | Tim Carpenter

Posted on 12/05/2017 10:39:23 PM PST by Impy

Olathe businessman Greg Orman returns to Kansas’ political forefront Wednesday by formally launching an exploratory committee for an independent campaign for governor in a move certain to jolt the congested field of Republican and Democratic hopefuls.

On Tuesday, The Topeka Capital-Journal confirmed Orman’s plan to submit required documents to the Secretary of State’s office and begin accepting campaign contributions for what is expected to be a compelling and expensive showdown for governor.

“I would be shocked if he didn’t run. If Greg runs, I’m confident he’ll win,” said Jim Jonas, who managed Orman’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2014. “I know he has a great plan and vision for Kansas that he’ll roll out over the course of the campaign — if he gets in.”

The filing, which includes appointment of a campaign treasurer, would appear to mute speculation about whether Orman harbored interest in elective politics after falling short in his independent run for U.S. Senate. Orman lost by 10 points to incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, but gained national attention by putting an established red-state senator on the ropes until the end.

Orman’s focus in 2018 would be on a campaign for governor featuring the GOP’s Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer, businessman Wink Hartman and former state legislators Mark Hutton, Jim Barnett and Ed O’Malley. The Democratic Party’s roster includes state Rep. Jim Ward, former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer and former state agriculture secretary Josh Svaty.

Orman’s presence pushes the number of gubernatorial aspirants to 20. It’s a remarkably high number by Kansas standards, but the tally could dwindle as reality sets in prior to the August primary. There are a dozen Republicans, six Democrats and two independents — all male.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican

If I were the KS Dem party, I would not want this guy running as an Independent. He’s only going to take votes from them and benefit the GOP nominee, be it Colyer or Kobach.


21 posted on 12/06/2017 1:29:32 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Most of the people posting here don't live in Kansas but that isn't stopping them either. I'm next door and I watch what's going on. So by all means tell me where I'm wrong? Colyer isn't going to be the incumbent governor? The Republican primary isn't going to be crowded? Kobach isn't going to beat those high school students who have announced? Which?

Try to pay attention. I said I didn't mind hearing outsiders opinions but I remember your obsession with this state from our discussions in the past. What I mostly remember about you is how you stealthy try to steer people away from the most conservative candidates.

All those deficits will do that to you. Especially when Brownback promised the moon that would result from the tax cuts.

Again, you fail to read what I post. When you do tax cuts you also have to cut spending but our the corrupt Kansas media and their supporters raised such a massive fuss, the spending cuts didn't happen. It was a recipe for disaster and I do fault that on Brownback for not taking them head on like President Trump has. A lot of the massive fuss was the government employees protecting their ridiculous KPERS. The fact where you don't understand this, tells me a lot about you.

Brownback had control of both houses of the legislature. His supporters had absolute majorities. And yet you're blaming their failure to cut spending enough at the beginning to anticipate the shortfalls in predicted revenues on his opponents? Where is the logic in that?

You fail to understand the power of the media to corruptly influence people. It sure worked on you as you have no clue what really happened in Kansas. You'd be surprised the number of people I have to deprogram from the local medias. While people are learning the national media is corrupt, they still think local medias are trustworthy. What they fail to understand is very few corporations own the majority of all the medias. Which are under control of the globalists and do not have this nations best interest at heart. You've obviously bought in to that garbage so you understand why I can't trust you.

I'm sure Colyer and Selzer consider themselves pretty conservative.

Kris Kobach is an exceptional conservative candidate, one we probably will only see once or twice in a lifetime and there you go again, trying to steathly undermine him.

FWIW, you have no clue what is going on in Kansas. Because of the media cabal's protection racket for government spending, we have lost so many business, big and small and our tax rates are some of the highest per capita in the country. All this is a systemic problem of out-of-control government and why I believe Cloward-Piven is in play by the corrupt media cabal. Which you seem to side more than true conservatism and why I don't trust you.

Hopefully Kobach will stand up to the media cabal bullies and get our government back under control.

CGato

22 posted on 12/06/2017 1:52:34 PM PST by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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Thank you, sorry about that.


23 posted on 12/06/2017 9:35:25 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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