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Rep. Jerry Moran (R) joined MI venture capitalist Rick Snyder (R) as proof that the more moderate candidates can still get elected in GOP primaries as he defeated conservative stalwart Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R) in the KS-SEN GOP primary. The AP just called the race for Moran; he leads Tiahrt 49-45% with 87 percent of precincts reporting. If Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam (R) is successful in the 8/5 TN-GOV GOP primary by winning a decisive plurality against two more conservative challengers, that would make the third-straight major GOP win this week by a moderate candidate that led the primary in...

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TOPEKA - U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran is aggressively attacking his main rival in the U.S. Senate race in Kansas, saying he previously supported amnesty for illegal immigrants, pointing to provisions in past bills designed to give immigrants help with college tuition. A spokeswoman for fellow Republican and U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt calls the attacks "ridiculous," and Tiahrt has declared publicly that he opposes amnesty, just as Moran has. Bills on college tuition in 2001 and 2003, co-sponsored by Tiahrt, included provisions granting legal residency to some immigrants under 21. Opinions differ on whether those measures constituted amnesty. Tiahrt has said...

* On Facebook today, Sarah Palin endorsed U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, GOP candidate for the United States Senate seat currently held by Sam Brownback, who is retiring from that body to run for Gov. of Kansas: Thank Todd Tiahrt for True Public ServiceI’m happy to endorse Todd Tiahrt’s campaign to be the next U.S Senator from Kansas. Todd is a protector of our Constitution, a pro-family, pro-Second Amendment Commonsense Conservative who has never voted for a tax increase and has fought to end the wasteful spending coming out of Washington. He didn’t just stand on the sidelines complacently, but instead...

Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt touched off a controversy last Thursday when he urged Congress not to fund abortions in D.C., pointing out that had such funding existed years ago it could have snuffed out the African-American luminaries of today before they were born. The children aborted in Washington, D.C., correlating to the city's community of poor on a whole, are disproportionately African-American. During his remarks the Kansas congressman called for an up-or-down vote in the House of Representatives on the abortion funding in the Financial Services Appropriations bill. The bill had adopted a suggestion by President Obama to eliminate a...

McClatchy Newspapers Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Kansas and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are waging a gunfight. It's not quite pistols at 20 paces; it's more like political sniping via long distance. Their feud is over an amendment that Tiahrt wrote in 2003 that puts strict limits on how broadly the government can share gun-tracing data. The information identifies the original dealer and buyer of a weapon used in a crime. Tiahrt and others say the restrictions are necessary because disclosure could reveal names of undercover officers and informants or tip off targets involved in investigations related to those...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Todd Tiahrt is Mayor Bloomberg's bogeyman, the congressional embodiment of what the mayor says is a powerful lobby allowing illegal guns to flow onto the city's streets. As part of his national campaign against illegal guns, Mr. Bloomberg has targeted Mr. Tiahrt aggressively, even running television ads in his Kansas district that tell voters that a law their congressman sponsored is helping criminals, not the police. The veteran Republican lawmaker has stayed mostly quiet in the face of the onslaught, but now he is fighting back. In a 30-minute interview in his office last week, Mr. Tiahrt...

Lawmaker Produces for NRA 7/22/2004 Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas) is getting the attention of gun-control advocates as his sponsorship of pro-gun bills increases, the Wichita Eagle reported July 19. "Tiahrt hasn't been a name on the radar screen, but he's moved right up there," said Jon Vernick, a director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Recently, Tiahrt introduced an amendment that could thwart New York City's lawsuit against gun makers by blocking access to federal gun data. "I'm trying to contain nuisance lawsuits," he said. "The whole lawsuit precedent is very dangerous....

A senior military intelligence official who cast the U.S. war on terrorism in starkly religious terms during speeches to church groups has asked for an examination of his past speaking activities amid a backlash from Muslim groups and political leaders. Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Photo: Los Angeles Times) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today at a Pentagon briefing he thought an official look at Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin's remarks would be "appropriate." A Pentagon spokesman, Air Force Lt. Col. Ken McClellan, told WorldNetDaily he did not know at this point what the nature of that examination would be....

Religious conservatives in Congress are defending a Pentagon general who referred to the war on terror as a Christian fight against Satan. In remarks many consider demeaning to Islam, Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin has told church audiences his mission is "a battle with Satan." The struggle, Boykin said, is "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christian ... and the enemy is a guy named Satan." Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., drafted a letter Monday asking Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld not to discipline Boykin, saying that elected officials and military leaders have talked...