Posted on 09/04/2018 8:39:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Republicans in Kansas further splintered Tuesday as the last moderate member of the party to hold the governor’s office endorsed a Democrat for governor over Kris Kobach, the GOP nominee.
In a statement, former Kansas governor Bill Graves said he planned to support state Sen. Laura Kelly in the November election. Kelly is running against Kobach and independent Greg Orman.
“Laura Kelly is the only Democrat I have ever endorsed for public office,” Graves said in the statement. “And the reason I’m doing that now is because I believe so much is at stake in the state of Kansas. I have known Laura for over thirty years. She has all the qualities and all the capabilities that we are looking for to lead the state during this difficult time and to reestablish the state to what it once was.”
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Arlen Specter is pushing daisys since 2012, so I don’t think he’ll be endorsing anyone.
I doubt the endorsement will mean anything.
“She has all the qualities and all the capabilities that we are looking for to lead the state during this difficult time and to reestablish the state to what it once was.”
IOW, he’s trying to coopt the Trump message, that the polity has to be made great again.
You can bet he is still voting though.
I bet his republican voters will be real happy with his endorsement of the rat girl.Bet it backfires.
Won't take much to mean something... a few weeks ago, the race polled at:
36 Kelly (D)
35 Kobach (R)
12 Orman (I)
17 (Undec/Other)
Kansas was Trump+20, by the way.
“You can bet he is still voting though.”
He’s there supporting all the Scotch/Jewish candidates. Ole Arlen said he was really into “Scottish Law!”
Gov Colyer's former chairman is backing Orman (Indep). Orman has run in KS as a Republican, a Democrat, and an Independent over the last decade. He has made donations to both Democrats and Republican candidates. He bounces on both sides of numerous issues. Tough to tell how his votes would go if he drops out of the race (but I doubt he will... his ego is in it)
Blinking bolded italicized giant marquee text is the only way to go.
Damn rino POS!!!!
It isn’t “former Republican governor Bill Graves”, it’s “former Republican former governor Bill Graves”.
So Graves is supporting a Democrat. Does he know that Democrats support socialism, same sex marriage, gun control, open borders, the murder of the unborn, higher taxes? Does he know that Democrats have nothing to offer except HATE for Donald Trump and hate for America?
Graves must get his news from CNN. Was he ever a Republican? Something does not add up.
The Uniparty strikes.
well at least everyone’s started showing their true stripes since Trump has become president.
The masks are off. The GOP Establishment would rather have a Democrat win than a pro-Trump Republican.
Many “Republicans” are just UniParty people who chose to mask themselves as Republicans in order to win in conservative areas. They must be found and purged.
You should have seen the reaction when I told the lady at the Elephant Club in Leawood that I was a conservative. She blanched in horror.
Maybe they are “in a relationship”
Bill Graves, of the Graves Trucking family, was another bought and paid for RINO politician, claiming to be a “fiscal conservative” with blood money from Geo. Tiller, Planned Parenthood, et al!
I’d be ready for the ER if I heard he was backing Kobach. His backing Laura makes Graves look less looney than supporting Greg Orman, who can’t decide which party he is.
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