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GOP Ex-Lawmakers Endorse Dem Candidate Over Kansas Gov. Brownback
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.
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But... but... I thought Republicans are ALWAYS supposed to come together and rally behind the party nominee! You mean to tell me (gasp!) that members of the honorable GOP Establishment AREN’T backing the party’s conservative candidate?!?! Why... why, isn’t this what is demanded of us conservatives whenever the all-mighty Establishment and its apologists foists some squishy, moderate, unprincipled RINO candidate on us???
“But... but... I thought Republicans are ALWAYS supposed to come together and rally behind the party nominee! You mean to tell me (gasp!) that members of the honorable GOP Establishment AREN’T backing the party’s conservative candidate?!?! Why... why, isn’t this what is demanded of us conservatives whenever the all-mighty Establishment and its apologists foists some squishy, moderate, unprincipled RINO candidate on us???”
That’s why I post these stories!
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.