ST. PAUL — Knee high in red, white and blue balloons, Kenya Cox is one of the few Kansans who weren’t entirely electric about Sen. John McCain’s speech. She said she still has questions about how McCain will make all the talk into reality. After nearly a week of convention speeches and red state whooping, she said she needs to see the fine print.
“There’s been a lot of tall talk,” the alternate delegate from Wichita said. “I’m not interested in talking. I’m interested in walking.” And she said Kansans in the district she’s running in in Wichita know the nation needs more than speeches. “The only thing I’m convinced of is that we have a whole hell of a lot to do,” she said. Read More »
Democrats in the Wichita area got robocalls Thursday inviting them to come help kick off Barack Obama’s post-convention presidential campaign this weekend.
An Obama open house will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in conjunction with the annual Demofest event at Wichita State University’s Hughes Metropolitan Complex, said Samatha Finke, Kansas field representative for the Obama campaign.
The campaign will be signing up and organizing volunteers to help the Obama campaign in the sprint to the Nov. 4 general election. Voter registration and absentee ballot applications will also be available, Finke said. Read More »
ST. PAUL — Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback will speak six spots back from Sen. John McCain tonight, according to a new schedule released by the Republican National Convention. That’s a bit deeper in the program than initially expected. But it still puts him on the stage sometime after 7 p.m. (Central). Read on for the rest of tonight’s line-up… Read More »
ST. PAUL — As expected, all 39 Kansas delegates at 10:45 p.m. tonight cast their votes to nominate Sen. John McCain for president despite former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s easy victory in the Kansas caucuses earlier this year.
With a nod to the University of Kansas Jayhawk’s NCAA basketball championship and a staunch voting record for Republican presidents dating back to 1964, Republican Party Chairman Kris Kobach announced McCain represents Kansas values.
ST. PAUL – Carolyn Dunn walked onto the main stage of the biggest Republican political event in years with a giant backdrop of a Kansas sunset shining on a small town street. Read More »
ST. PAUL — Of everyone vying for attention this week outside Xcel Energy Center, these two guys might just have the strangest cause. While others toted signs demanding an end to the war or immigrant rights Monday, Mike Rasmussen of Great Falls, Mont., and Pete Caprise of New York City (holding the sign) advocated the end of what they call ‘bird porn.’ Though no one seems to get it here on the streets of St. Paul, they say they’re serious. See for yourself…
On a cold day in January last year, Sen. Sam Brownback stood in a room full of friends in Topeka and said his family was taking its “first steps on the yellow brick road to the White House.”
Nine months later, the walk was over. Brownback stood before microphones in a room full of friends in Topeka to say the yellow brick road — and his campaign funds and showings in the polls — had stopped short.
It was the first presidential campaign for a relatively unknown conservative Christian Kansan in a race that included war heroes, a New York City mayor and an energetic, bass-playing former Baptist minister.
Yet this week, the 51-year-old will be on the stage he wanted to be on, on the day he wanted to speak, at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
DENVER — One Kansas delegate to the Democratic National Convention learned the hard way that politics can be a rough business.
Elizabeth Bustamante of Garden City got roughed up by four women who objected to her efforts to get back into a caucus meeting at the Colorado Convention Center.
Bustamante was inside when she popped a zipper and had to go out to repair the damage.
When she tried to get back in, four women waiting for seats boxed her in, jostled her and one elbowed her in the ribs, causing her to hyperventilate.
“The paramedics had to come in and take me outside,” she said. It was “the worst moment of the whole convention” for Bustamante.
“I couldn’t believe people could be that mean and cruel over just a space,” she said.
ST. PAUL — Knee high in red, white and blue balloons, Kenya Cox is one of the few Kansans who weren’t entirely electric about Sen. John McCain’s speech. She said she still has questions about how McCain will make all the talk into reality. After nearly a week of convention speeches and red state whooping, she said she needs to see the fine print.
