TOPEKA, KS – As President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans move to exercise their constitutional authority to nominate and confirm a Supreme Court justice, Sharice Davids has some questions to answer about how Democrats plan to respond. Remember, Davids votes with Speaker Nancy Pelosi an astonishing 99% of the time. We know she will be a rubber stamp on whatever Pelosi brings to the House floor. In response to the Republicans’ plan to follow historical precedent and fill a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year where the same party controls the White House and Senate, Democrats are threatening unprecedented retaliation.
TOPEKA, KS – Over the weekend, Democrats and their defenders in the media have kicked the misinformation campaign into high gear regarding the history of the Supreme Court and the position advanced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2016. Here are the facts. 1. History is on the side of Republicans when it comes to filling Supreme Court vacancies. 2. There have been 10 instances where a vacancy has occurred in an election year where the party opposing the President controls the U.S. Senate – most recently in 2016. Of those 10 instances, the President’s nominee was only confirmed three times. 3. There have been 19
TOPEKA, KS – Barbara Bollier awkwardly repeated the words “excuse me” over and over, refusing to acknowledge her support for late-term abortion when pressed by Roger Marshall in today’s debate in the race for U.S. Senate. You can watch the exchange here – it’s astonishing. A moment of direct confrontation between the two candidates would normally be considered noteworthy. Particularly when it involves the controversial stance held by Bollier, a topic of millions of dollars in television advertising in this year’s campaign, and an issue at the forefront of voters minds with a new vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court following the
TOPEKA, KS – The Kansas Republican Party issued the following statement on today’s Kansas Senate debate hosted by the Kansas Agriculture Network and WIBW: Kansas GOP Chairman Mike Kuckelman commented: “The contrast in this debate couldn’t be more clear. Barbara Bollier spent the entire debate reading her answers from talking points provided by Washington Democrats. Roger Marshall spoke with authority on the issues and a commitment to defending Kansas values in the U.S. Senate. “This debate was a good preview of Election Day – a clear and decisive victory for Roger Marshall.”
TOPEKA, KS – The Sharice Davids for Congress campaign has released a new television ad featuring manipulated video of Amanda Adkins, a practice members of the media have been decrying as out of bounds for the better part of the last week. The Davids ad features video of Amanda Adkins out of context suggesting that “our children deserve better” than “her and Brownback.” The footage used by the Davids campaign comes from an Adkins campaign ad in the primary discussing border security, COVID-19 response, Democrats, and the media. It bears no resemblance to the context in which the Davids campaign used the footage. Where is the
TOPEKA, KS – Sharice Davids and House Democrats are prioritizing marijuana legalization over helping small businesses and American families deal with the ongoing pandemic. Rather than spending her time pushing House Democrat Leadership to come to the table on a deal for a new round of COVID-19 relief, Sharice Davids is cosponsoring partisan legislation to legalize marijuana. On Friday she joined 106 other Democrats as a cosponsor of H.R. 3884. This follows Davids’ vote for the Democrats’ dead-on-arrival HEROES Act that featured similar pot provisions. Why is Sharice Davids so focused on marijuana while families and business in the Third District are struggling under the worst
Now that the general election is in full swing, the media is in hyperdrive defending Barbara Bollier’s campaign from legitimate critique and refusing to challenge her on even basic positions and votes. This morning, the Kansas City Star published an article that should more appropriately be titled “In Defense of Barbara Bollier.” Here are the most glaring problems with today’s article: 1. Somehow, it goes the entire “pandemic politics” section without mentioning that Roger Marshall was well out ahead of anyone in the political world warning Americans about the threat of COVID-19 in a January editorial. It also fails to mention Marshall left the campaign
TOPEKA, KS – The Kansas Republican Party today issued the following statement on today’s vote to prevent Governor Laura Kelly from unilaterally imposing any new lockdowns that would destroy our economy: Kansas GOP Chairman Mike Kuckelman commented: “It’s no wonder Laura Kelly’s economic recovery continues to trail every other state in America. Just yesterday she had to ask the federal government for a bailout from the devastating effects of her first statewide lockdown. Today, she nearly jeopardized the state’s entire emergency response to preserve her ability to shut us down again. “Kansas Republicans continue to lead on solutions. More lockdowns are not the
BY JIM DENNING SPECIAL TO THE STAR To view this editorial online, click here. Kansas state Sen. Barbara Bollier’s entire campaign for U.S. Senate is built on a fiction that she hopes no one will challenge. As a member of the Johnson County delegation to the Kansas Legislature who has served alongside Bollier for almost a decade, I’d like to present the truth. I speak about working across the aisle from experience. My work on mental health issues and crisis stabilization centers with Democratic state Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore earned both of us national recognition from the National Council of Behavioral
TOPEKA, KS – While Amanda Adkins has signed the Police Pledge, promising to support police officers and oppose all efforts to defund the police, Sharice Davids remains silent on the issue. But Davids’ own past words illuminate why she won’t commit to opposing the defunding of police. Her extreme record makes clear which side she’s on. Davids thinks our law enforcement system is “rooted in violence.” She told the audience at a May 2018 candidate forum as such: “I think one of the problems that we have when we talk about police violence is that we often focus on individuals within a system
