Daily Archives: Oct. 9, 2012

Garvey should be ashamed about Facebook rant

Oct. 9, 201212:22 p.m.

Tim Garvey, the Republican candidate for Kansas House District 83 in east Wichita, should be ashamed about the strange, punctuation-challenged rant he posted recently on Facebook. Opening with a use of the f-word, Garvey’s post said President Obama has “to pay the conscience” and should read the Constitution “and actually understand it,” and that “no one is better then (sic) the next person there is no black or white there is only blood we all bleed red!” After calling the late conservative crusader Andrew Breitbart “one of my best friends,” Garvey concluded: “With no hate no differences nothing we must not have any more ‘race’ we are all people one in the same.” Garvey told the Huffington Post he was upset about Obamacare and “with people smearing the Constitution” when he posted the comment, which he said he should have written differently. “It would have been better if I had left out the f-word,” he said. “There should not be race. I have talked to people in the past who said that they voted for Barack Obama to show they’re not racist.” In response, the Kansas House Democrats tweeted: “@GovSamBrownback’s choice for the 83rd House District,” adding, “Keep it classy.” Other Twitter responses included “Case in point why education is important” and “New game: Onion story or tea party profile.”

By Rhonda Holman | Filed under Kansas government | Comments Off

AFP spending big bucks in southern states

Oct. 9, 20126:01 a.m.

Americans for Prosperity, the free-market group backed by Charles and David Koch, isn’t just spending big bucks to influence Kansas elections. It has also pledged to spend nearly $1 million in Arkansas in an attempt by conservative Republicans to take control of that state’s legislature, the Washington Post reported. That effort was set back a bit last week when the Arkansas Republican Party had to condemn assertions made by one of its legislative candidates that slavery was a “blessing in disguise” and comments by another candidate advocating the deportation of all Muslims. In Florida, Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen complained about how a “new stealth campaign against three Florida Supreme Court justices is being backed by those meddling right-wing billionaires from Wichita.”

By Phillip Brownlee | Filed under U.S. politics | Comments Off

Members of Congress did OK during financial downturn

Oct. 9, 20126:00 a.m.

Most members of Congress “weathered the financial crisis better than the average American, who saw median household net worth drop 39 percent from 2007 to 2010,” the Washington Post reported. Though some members lost ground, “the median estimated wealth of members of the current Congress rose 5 percent during the same period, according to their reported assets and liabilities. The wealthiest one-third of Congress gained 14 percent.”

By Phillip Brownlee | Filed under Congress | Comments Off