Quoting sources close to the congressman, National Journal’s Hotline blog reports that Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Lenexa, plans to call it quits after six terms in 2010. If so, that’s excellent news for Kansas Republicans, who have thrown opponents from Phill Kline to Kris Kobach to Nick Jordan at Moore and failed to dislodge him despite the 3rd Congressional District’s heavy GOP voter registration. The next question is whether Moore, a former Johnson County district attorney, intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated in 2010 by Sen. Sam Brownback. If so, Kansas could see three of its four members of the U.S. House competing for the job (both Republican Reps. Todd Tiahrt of Goddard and Jerry Moran of Hays have said they’d like the seat), and at least three new faces among its House delegation come 2011.
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New faces all around would be good. A new face in the Senate seat, meaning not these tired old retreads looking for a promotion. But I hope they all run so there are also some new faces in the Kansas House delegation.
Hell, new faces couldnt do any worse than these old faces have done.
I would love to see Tiahrt vs. Moore for Senate in 2010! Tiahrt would loose his seat in the house while loosing the senate seat to Moore.
Moore had done a great job sending e-mails to all of his constituents explaining all of his votes. He has been very accessible and I am not even in his district. He is moderate and had a good head on his shoulders. This is a very good thing.
I still am unconvinced Sam the Sham Brownback will stick to his pledge to retire from the Senate.
I can just hear him whining that Washington is going to hell in a handbasket due to Obama and the evil Democratic majorities in Congress and how Kansas can’t run the risk of a Moore or Sebelius sullying the Senate with a moderate voice from Kansas.
There’s no outlet for his kookie Opus Dei religious beliefs in Topeka and one of the secrets to his happy marriage (other than Mary’s Stauffer Publications inheritance) is that he doesn’t have to go home to her every night.
Yeah, there might be something about having “executive experience” when he runs again for president in 2012, but the Moose-Dresser has pretty much ruined that as an attribute for potential candidates. And the crazy twice-born dominance of the Kansas Legislature isn’t gonna win Brownback any favor in a presidential election. Indeed, he’ll just be a part of the pack in the 2012 Republic Party primaries with Governors Huckabee, Romney, Palin, Crist, Sanford, Pawlenty and… and… you get the idea. And he’d have to own all the craziness the Republic Party conjures up in the statehouse every year.
Both the Senate a Gubernatorial contests are statewide races with reelection a much safer enterprise for Sam.
As Yogi Berra said, “Predictions are tough, especially when they involve the future.” And I’m not ready to predict just yet.
But I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if Brownback doesn’t screw all his fellow Republic Party officials by running for a third term.
I was thinking the same thing, MH.
Well if the likes of Sebelius or Moore are such fantastic candidates it shouldn’t make a difference that they are running against an incumbent should it?
Keep in mind, Dennis Moore graduated from Wichita’s Southeast High School back in about 1963, take or give a year. His father was a prosecuting attorney or assistant thereto here in Sedgwick County (maybe a blogger can help me out here.) Dennis graduated from K.U. and Washburn Law School.
Tiahrt, on the other hand, was raised in South Dakota and attended engineering school in S.D. but found it too difficult. He then transfered to a small college in Missouri. Eventually he came to Wichita to work in the airplane manufacturing industry. So no native Kansas roots.
In his predominately Republican congressional district including Johnson County, Dennis Moore, a Democrat, is virtually unbeatable.
Dennis Moore is pro-environment whereas Todd Tiahrt wouldn’t know “environmental” if he encountered one on the streets of Washington D.C.
The big question will be: Moore or Moran for U.S. Senator?
IIRC, Warner Moore (father) was County Attorney, back before there was a District Attorney position in Sedgwick County. When I came into practice, Warner was in private practice, and I consider it an honor to have had cases with him during his later years. If Dennis is half the lawyer his father was, he’s a success.
“I am still am unconvinced Sam the Sham Brownback will stick to his pledge to retire from the Senate.”
Particularly since the moderate wing of the Republican party does have a strong candidate for governor in Ron Thornburgh.
I think Moore will stay in the House. Now that his party is the majority for the foreseeable future, he will be in a position to wield real clout with his growing seniority. Why would he leave now for a very risky Senate race?
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