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Tue, Feb. 14, 2006 Fraud nets 15 months for ex-candidate Taff Co-defendant gets five months in prison, $50,000 fine in scam By ROBERT A. CRONKLETON The Kansas City Star Adam Taff hesitated, drew a few breaths, glanced at the paper in his hands and began reading aloud what was, in effect, the obituary for a once-promising political career. His own. “I know what I did was wrong,” the former Kansas congressional candidate said Monday at sentencing in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. Saying he had failed in his personal conduct by committing wire fraud and violating campaign finance...

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...

Everyone agrees that Adam Taff is a contender. The Kansas Republican has $150,000-plus in the bank, name recognition and a firm grip. The big question facing the 6-foot-3 college-football star turned Navy fighter pilot is whether Republicans in Washington will help him defeat Democratic Rep. Dennis Moore, who narrowly beat Taff last year to hold onto his 3rd District seat in the Kansas City suburbs. Last time, as Taff and his political consultant, Joseph Gaylord, see it, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dropped the ball by not responding to Democratic television ads. "They were solidly in the mindset that...