Democrat Jim Slattery isn’t kidding when he talks about the money gap in his race against Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. (in photo). Roberts said Friday he has raised more than $5.2 million so far – a record for a Kansas delegation race – including nearly $954,000 in the past three months. Because polls show him way ahead of Slattery, we wonder why Roberts needs that kind of cash. Could he be thinking ahead to another re-election campaign in 2014, when he’ll be 78?
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It takes a lot of money to convince people that you are a competent candidate after years and years of failure and incompetence.
Thanks for everything you did for us, Senator, but it is time for someone new to move into your office. Step down, relax and enjoy your remaining years with your grandchildren…..
I don’t know the laws these days, but I do recall Bob Whittaker, who represented the old Kansas 5th District, retired and took all his unused campaign donations home with him.
(Well, not “home,: necessarily. I don’t think he lives in Augusta anymore.)
Senator Roberts could choose to redistribute the funds to other candidates running.
Sort of like Obama didn’t,when Hillary Clinton ask him to help pay expenses.
Or Regular, using Obamian tax policy, he should be forced to give a chunk to Slattery, to make it more fair.
Sounds like Roberts has done well for himself, take your cash hoard and run, just not for re-election!
Can David take down Goliath? Sure hurled a good stone or two yesterday!
Roberts should take the mil. that bush raised and donate it to the Mccain campaign.
Rhonda,
Why not a thread about that sleazy radio ad that Slattery is running which has that french news conference where he accuses Roberts of putting Fance before Boeing workers?
How about something talking about the President of boeing talking about how great Roberts is in the ad Roberts is using to counter that sleazy as?
Nope. Instead we get a thread wondering why Roberts has so much money.
You EDITORS are nothing but partisan hacks.
“You EDITORS are nothing but partisan hacks.”
Nathan, check your email. You must not have gotten the RNC memo that FACTS have a liberal bias.
Ya know, you, as an entrepreneur, could start your own paper. I think SBA has loan programs and grants for enterprising folks…..
Gotta love the free market!
KFG,
So do you support the “so called” fairness doctrine which specifically targets the free market of Radio?
I notice that the only thing you liberals have to say when I continue to point out the bias here is:
1. Too bad.
2. Free market.
Facts have no bias. They simply are.
The EDITORS get to choose which facts to present here and what they give us is definately leaning to the left.
After listening to Bernanke for a while, it became apparent to me that they were wanting to be above the law in their rescue attempt, because there was no existing authority to allow them to take the steps that needed to be taken. The non-banks, which had written CDS’s to banks failing would cause the banks to take severe writedowns should they have failed. Since the instruments and the firms were not covered by the bank regulatory laws, there was no system in place to deal with them.
Bernanke was calling for More Regulation of firms deemed to big to fail. As Slattery pointed out in his debate, Sen. Roberts voted for deregulation of oversight for commodities and financial instruments, and even prohibited States from such regulation authority.
Roberts was part and parcel to the problem, and yet he brags about voting against the ‘bail out’.
What are you whinning about? Now you want an equal time ‘fairness doctrine’ to apply to a blog editors’ section where you perceive bias allegedly on display. This is open forum, and every topic is open for discussion and rebuttal.
Need some limburger cheese for that whine?
You don’t see Sen. Roberts or his campaign staff complaining. There free to jump right in.
No nathan, I do not support the fairness doctrine.
Now, why dont you start your own paper?
“Roberts was part and parcel to the problem, and yet he brags about voting against the ‘bail out’.”
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KFG,
I have neither the time, resources, nor the inclination to do so.
No wonder Roberts is smiling, and voted against the rescue bill. He has a fortune in the bank, a guaranteed Senator’s pension, What Him Worry?
Last I checked, contributing to any politician’s campaign was a voluntary choice. So, if people want to give money to Senator Roberts, how is that really any business of the Wichita Eagle? If Roberts asks the members of the Eagle editorial board for a donation, by all means feel free to tell him no, because you’ve decided he has too much already and, in case he hasn’t noticed it, he’s way too old.