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GOP Ex-Lawmakers Endorse Dem Candidate Over Kansas Gov. Brownback
talkingpointsmemo.com ^ | 7/15/14 | Caitlin MacNeal

Posted on 07/15/2014 12:15:21 PM PDT by cotton1706

Several Republican former Kansas officials have endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Paul Davis over GOP incumbent Gov. Sam Brownback.

Republicans for Kansas Values, a group of more than 100 former lawmakers and GOP officials, including two former lieutenant governors and a former congresswoman, announced their support for Davis on Tuesday.

“All of us are proud Republicans. We came together because of our common love of Kansas, our commitment to Kansas families, and our belief in moderate, commonsense leadership,” former state Sen. Wint Winter said in a statement for the group. "We are deeply concerned by the direction Sam Brownback is taking Kansas. Today we announce our opposition to his re-election."

Before the Tuesday endorsement and a recent poll showing him ahead of the GOP governor, Davis was a long-shot candidate for governor in a red state.

The group criticized the governor's support for tax cuts and reduced funding for public schools. Republicans may also be turning against the governor over his efforts in 2012 to rid the state legislature of moderate Republicans in favor of more conservative challengers.

While Kansas is a conservative state, voters there have elected Democratic governors in the past. Kathleen Sebelius served as governor for two terms before Brownback took office.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: elections; uniparty
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To: cotton1706
The GOPe version of RR's "big tent".



21 posted on 07/15/2014 7:46:11 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: cotton1706
The group criticized the governor's support for tax cuts and reduced funding for public schools.

Upsidedown world, again. I thought those things were part of the Pubbie platform.

Republicans may also be turning against the governor over his efforts in 2012 to rid the state legislature of moderate Republicans in favor of more conservative challengers.

Dear Leader has taught the RINO's well....paybacks are now standard MO with the DC establishment.

22 posted on 07/15/2014 7:55:15 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: cotton1706; Finny; Jane Long; Colonel_Flagg; RKBA Democrat; GraceG; Norm Lenhart; ...
Jokes on them, everyone knows Brownback IS a moderate.

Take it from someone is from and lives in Kansas.

Uniparty Ping

23 posted on 07/15/2014 8:34:43 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

People that continue to support and make excuses for the GOP are as much our enemy as an open Democrat. And should be treated accordingly.

We are past debating GOPe. box to check on a ballot between them. Support one, get the other. The sooner we accept that reality the better. People that want to keep debating it are protecting the problem. There are two sides. The GOP/Lib side and our side. Binary.

Pick one and go with it folks.


24 posted on 07/15/2014 9:01:14 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Norm Lenhart; KC_Lion

Edit

We are past debating GOP/GOPe. There is no box to check on a ballot between them.


25 posted on 07/15/2014 9:03:15 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: GeronL

Yep! I’m sick of this “S”.


26 posted on 07/15/2014 9:41:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.)
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To: KC_Lion

and he is too conservative for them? jeesh


27 posted on 07/15/2014 9:44:32 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: DoughtyOne; All

I hope the Conservatives are mad as hell over this and will take it out on Pat Roberts in the Senate Primary.


28 posted on 07/16/2014 5:36:36 AM PDT by Din Maker (Time to insure GOP will NOT get control of Senate. If you don't like revenge, you've never tasted it)
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To: DestroyLiberalism
The group criticized the governor’s support for tax cuts and reduced funding for public schools. Republicans may also be turning against the governor over his efforts in 2012 to rid the state legislature of moderate Republicans in favor of more conservative challengers.

A lot of these were probably part of the purge and this is their payback. Problem is that Brownback's plans haven't worked out as well as he'd hoped. Revenues aren't meeting projections, the legislature voted down his plan to meet the court required school funding, the state's credit rating was downgraded, and the more conservative members are introducing bills against fluoride and religious freedom acts. That's causing rumblings in Johnson county which is the most populous and where the more socially moderate Republicans are. They're the ones who elected Dennis Moore five times. They could well go against Brownback this fall.

29 posted on 07/16/2014 6:13:45 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Din Maker

I hope they’re mad as hell about it too.


30 posted on 07/16/2014 9:23:21 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.)
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