As 113,676 voters in Kansas’ 4th Congressional District told Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, to return to Capitol Hill for a seventh term, another 4,516 voters chose somebody for the job who doesn’t even live in the district, Reform Party candidate Joy Holt of Kansas City, Kan. That oddity was brought to Kansans by the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 2, which requires only that a U.S. House member be at least 25 years old, a U.S. citizen for at least seven years, and “an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.”
Think there ought to be a law requiring that congressional candidates live in the district? That would require the cumbersome act of amending the Constitution, the office of Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh confirmed. If the founders foresaw this, they must have figured that voters would take care of the loophole — as they did Tuesday.
Still, it makes you wonder whether Holt’s gambit might catch on. Do any Wichitans stand ready to challenge Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa?
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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RondaDo we have the right number of Representatives as according to the population count as outlined in the Constitution?
Tiahrt should have lost, but he is a true Politician. He said what you want to hear, means none of what he said and is a switch hitter when it comes to which way the wind blows. Handsome for a man his age (there are so few of us left LoL) so the ladies like him and goes through a case of chapstick kissing all the babies.
His undying support of Bush and Delay, stops only when he talks to someone that can not stand either.Then he will turn around to the next person and tell them how great the two are! He is steadfast against illegal immigration unless it mean that business can make a profit by hiring them over legal citizens.
No Tiahrt should have lost, but over all the country had enough of a win for now.
Isn’t it great that we live in a country big enough to hold those who voted for Tiahrt and also those who voted against him. I too agree you the dems had a great victory. I just hope now they will not become the far left crowd that some of their leaders want. We need bipartisan cooperation now more that ever. Our threats from outside our country should unite us all to find a solution to this problem.
I”LL BE DAMNED!
Rhonda?
NOW we get a Tiahrt thread?
We only asked for one every single day for a month before the election! FINALLY we get one a week AFTER the election?
I know you editors are too influenced by your corporate masters to be ashamed of yourselves. It’s ok we will be ashamed for you.
Too bad that the WE didn’t give a local boy a chance to challenge TT. We now have 50% Democratic representation for Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. Maybe the DNC will come in next time to buy media time for a Democratic challenger. But YOU in the Wichita media had a chance to support locally-based grassroots change, which could have succeeded with just a bit of local media support (oops, I forgot, your masters are out-of-state corporations), and you chickened out, so a game-winning pass was thrown right on your numbers, and you dropped the ball. You threw the game. But the rest of the country, including Northeast Kansas, voted for change, and guess what this means for now-minority-member TT and Wichita? You’re gonna be blanked the rest of the season.
Since when is the media supposed to be a tool for deciding who we as vote for.
Not for who we vote for, but for who we get to hear the story about.
Newspapers and tv’s repeatedly deny stories about 3rd party candidates. And that’s not right. Sure put the headliners out there, but give the others their fair chance to put their ideals out there too.
ksgrm
“Since when is the media supposed to be a tool for deciding who we as[?] vote for.”
Maybe ksgrm was describing only people like him/herself, and left off some letters on the 3rd from last word?
Our Founding Fathers tried to guarantee us “freedom of the press”, because they knew a strong democracy requires accurately informed citizens.
Unfortunately, too many of our voters rely on Faux, Rush, and other unreliable sources.
Freedom of the press is one of our strongest tools in disseminating the truth. If you only read and listen to the liberal media your information becomes as limited as your language. I do watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC on occasion and listen to Rush if I feel like it but I don’t need a newspaper to help me make a voting decision. News reporting used to be just that reporting. The 5 w’s were the guideline: who, what, why, when and where – never an O for opinion. When armed with this information we then made a selection for the best canidate.
Fair enough grm.
WHO was Todd Tiahrts opponent in the last election? The Eagle told us almost nothing about him. If the editors interviewed him, they did not say so.
WHAT are the connections of Todd Tiahrt to the Abramoff scandal. What knowledge of his FRIEND Mark Foley’s strange social life did Tiahrt have?
WHY would Tiahrt not return to his district to campaign or debate his opponent? Why did the Eagle editors not ask him? Why did they ignore more than 40 calls for a thread on this forum about the matter?
WHEN do the editors intend to explain all of the above. I aint gonna stop asking. If you get sick of reading me post about this, tell them to answer me. They have failed their readers and this forum badly.
which brings us to
WHERE was the Eagle’s journalistic integrity and credibility in this matter? Where was their accountability to THIS forum?
ALL fair questions that could be answered with facts not opinions.
Those are all good questions I guess? I have one for you: Will the Democrats investigate the ties between Harry Reed and the Abramoff scandal?
Nothing in Wichita has integrity. Everything is a cheap copy, never the original. Except maybe the I235/Kellogg interchange… that’s original as in the largest clusterf*** ever developed.
Why should the Eagle differ? It hires an editorial staff that feigns dissent at times (Crowson) yet panders to its neocon base. Everything for a dollar, including ones’ soul. It’s not about credibility, it’s about infotainment, and that’s what sells papers. When you realize that, you’ll realize why there’s no Tiahrt thread until after the election, and it’s not even really about Tiahrt.
ksgerm
You are getting smaller and smaller and shrinking away.
This forum put valid questions to the Eagle and its endorsement of Tiahrt. As I have posted, there was no answer or defense.
YOU come back with a question about Harry Reed???
Um…..Harry Reed represents Nevada.
Todd Tiahrt “represents” the distirict where I live and the Eagle sells its “newspaper”. I fail to see how your rebuttal is valid. I’ll give you credit for TRYING to defend the Eagle. They certainly cannot defend themselves.
ksgerm you are going to have to try harder. No points this round.
JR the reason Harry Reed is relevent is because he will be the Majority leader of the senate. The second highest ranking democrat in our nation. I realize some people can’t see beyond Kansas borders but there is a great big world out there. You have to get your news somewhere else to keep up. Please don’t ever accuse me of defending the Eagle. They are a worthless newspaper that reports very few stories accurately.