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Kansas has almost 116,000 voters with unknown addresses

A 1993 federal law forces about 116,000 voters with unknown addresses to stay on the Kansas voter list. That means almost 7 percent of Kansas voters have addresses where mail cannot be delivered. Kansas has about 1.7 million registered voters. The number of voters with questionable addresses was as high as 174,000 in May 2008, and is down from November ...
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News & Headlines

Kansas Republican Party Treasurer Explains FEC Reporting Problems

By Earl Glynn on January 31, 2010
On Saturday in Topeka treasurer Steve Fitzgerald explained a number of reporting problems facing the Kansas Republican Party: A number of governmental agencies have had problems with us because of inaccurate and untimely reports.  This stems from poor — or non-existent — record keeping, ignorance of and disregard for regulations, lack of attention and oversight, and [...]Read More>>

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LPA Audits Show Budget Savings Are Available

By Paul Soutar on January 28, 2010
Audits released Wednesday show Gov. Mark Parkinson and state Senate leaders are missing millions of wasted tax dollars when they claim they must raise taxes to balance the budget because spending cuts are exhausted. Auditors presented two reports to the Legislative Post Audit (LPA) Committe. One found potential savings of $537,200 per year in the $4 [...]Read More>>

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U.S. Supreme Court ruling impacts Federal races, but not State

By Earl Glynn on January 21, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that businesses and  unions may spend freely on political campaigns, but this ruling only affects federal races in Kansas. “It won’t affect us at all” was the response from Carol Williams, the executive director of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.  Williams said that 24 states had corporate and union contribution bans but [...]Read More>>

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State Rep Don Hineman to face ethics civil fine hearing for turning himself in

By Earl Glynn on January 21, 2010
[Updated 1/25] Topeka.  State Rep Don Hineman (R, Dighton) will face an ethics civil fine hearing at the Feb. 17 meeting of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.  After a 10-minute, closed executive session on Wednesday the commission announced the hearing would be about a violation of KSA 25-4153a.  This law deals with accepting contributions from lobbyists or PACs after [...]Read More>>

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Attorney disciplinary complaint filed against former AG Phill Kline

By Earl Glynn on January 19, 2010
Ron Keefover, Kansas Supreme Court spokesman, today announced a formal 2-count complaint against former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.  Read More>>

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Blog & Analysis

Kansas Congressional Candidates have $8.4 Million Cash

By Earl Glynn on February 6, 2010
In the most recent reporting period, Kansas candidates for the U.S. House and U.S. Senate raised $8.7 million, spent $3.3 million and have $8.4 million in the bank. The FEC Candidate Summary finally has nearly all the data for the reporting period ending Dec. 31, 2009.   Kansas data were extracted from this national file and are [...]Read More>>

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An Interview with Joe the Plumber

By Paul Soutar on February 4, 2010
KansasWatchdog caught up with Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher while he was in Kansas last week. Joe was catapulted from playing with his son in the front yard of his Ohio home to national symbol after an impromptu exchange with presidential candidate Barak Obama. His questions about the American dream and Obama’s answer about income redistribution were [...]Read More>>

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Debunking Education Employment Claims

By Paul Soutar on February 2, 2010
A fresh report from the Kansas Legislative Research Department (KLRD) shows that school district employment across Kansas is down, but nowhere near the 3,704 positions claimed in a survey delivered to the 2010 Commission in June. According to KLRD’s accounting total school district employment is down 875 from the 2008-09 school year. School districts are facing additional [...]Read More>>

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State of the Union Roundup

By Paul Soutar on January 28, 2010
President Barak Obama’s first State of the Union speech has generated some heat overnight. Three  particularly telling observations are generating some buzz. Supreme Court Rebuke From David A. Patten on Newsmax: Obama objected to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that the First Amendment does not allow Congress to restrict the rights of corporations and unions to run [...]Read More>>

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Wordle: President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address

By Earl Glynn on January 28, 2010
C-SPAN posted this Wordle tag cloud of President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address: Read More>>

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