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2012 Kansas Elections
The Kansas 2012 general elections were held on November 6, 2012. Primary elections were held on August 7, 2012. U.S. House of Representatives 1st congressional district Republican incumbent Tim Huelskamp, who had represented the 1st district since 2011, won re-election unopposed. 2nd congressional district Republican incumbent Lynn Jenkins, who had represented the 2nd district since 2009, ran for re-election. Tobias Schlingensiepen, a pastor and police chaplain, sought and received the Democratic nomination to challenge Jenkins. He defeated Scott Barnhart, a farmer, and Bob Eye, an attorney, in the Democratic primary. Dennis Hawver ran as a Libertarian. Jenkins defeated Schlingensiepen and Hawver in the general election. 3rd congressional district Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder, who had represented the 3rd district since 2011, defeated Libertarian candidate Joel Balam to win re-election. No Democrats ran against Yoder. 4th congressional district Republican incumbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vratil
John Vratil (October 28, 1945) is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of about 73,000 inhabitants. Members o ..., representing the 11th district from 1998 to 2013. He was the Senate Vice-President from 2003 to 2013. Electoral history Vratil was appointed to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Keith Schraad. He was elected in his own right in 2000, and won re-election in 2004 and 2008. Committee assignments Vratil served on these legislative committees: * Education (vice-chair) * Ways and Means (vice-chair) * Interstate Cooperation * Judiciary * Organization, Calendar and Rules * Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations Major donors Some of the top contributors to Vratil's 2008 campaign, according to the ''National Institute on Money in State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 24th Senate District
Kansas's 24th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican former Kansas House of Representatives, State Representative J. R. Claeys. Geography District 24 is based in the city of Salina, Kansas, Salina, also covering Abilene, Kansas, Abilene, Solomon, Kansas, Solomon, Chapman, Kansas, Chapman, and other smaller communities in Saline County, Kansas, Saline County and some of Dickinson County, Kansas, Dickinson County. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 69th, 70th, 71st, and 108th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results References {{Kansas State Senators Kansas Senate districts, 24 Dickinson County, Kansas Saline County, Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics (RCP) is an American political news website and polling data aggregator. It was founded in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency account executive Tom Bevan. It features selected political news stories and op-eds from various news publications in addition to commentary and original content from its own contributors.Rob MacKay"Political junkies create Web site for opinion and analysis", June 6, 2001 ''Princeton Alumni Weekly''. Princeton RCP receives its most traffic during election season and is known for its aggregation of polling data. Establishment The website was founded in 2000 by McIntyre, a former trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Bevan, a former advertising agency account executive. McIntyre explained "it really wasn't any more complicated than there should be a place online that pulled together all this quality information." They call what they do "intelligent aggregation". The site has gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''AP Stylebook'', its AP polls tracking National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA sports, sponsoring the National Football League's annual awards, and its election polls and results during Elections in the United States, US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Reitz
Roger P. Reitz (born November 11, 1932) is an American doctor and politician, who served as a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the Kansas's 22nd Senate district, 22nd district from 2005 until 2013. Reitz served as a representative in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2002 to 2005. He previously had served as mayor and city commissioner for the Manhattan City Commission and was president and member of Unified School District 383 School Board. Reitz graduated from Kansas State University and is graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1959 with an M.D. He served in the United States Army as a physician. He is a practicing, board-certified doctor of internal medicine. He is married to Virginia Reitz and lives in Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan. He and his wife have five children. Elections 2012 In the 2012 Republican primary, Reitz was defeated in a three-way race in the Republican primary on August 7, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 22nd Senate District
Kansas's 22nd Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Brad Starnes since 2025. Geography District 22 is based in Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan, covering all of Clay County, Kansas, Clay and Riley County, Kansas, Riley counties as well as a small part of northern Geary County, Kansas, Geary County. Other communities in the district include Clay Center, Kansas, Clay Center, Ogden, Kansas, Ogden, Wakefield, Kansas, Wakefield, Riley, Kansas, Riley, and parts of western Junction City, Kansas, Junction City. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 51st, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, 68th, and 70th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results References {{Kansas State Senators Kansas Senate districts, 22 Clay County, Kansas Geary Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. The paper is the major newspaper of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has widespread circulation in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. History Nelson family ownership (1880–1926) The paper, originally called ''The Kansas City Evening Star'', was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the ''Fort Wayne News Sentinel'' (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful presidential run of Samuel Tilden. Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 21st Senate District
Kansas's 21st Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Dinah Sykes since 2017; Sykes was first elected as a Republican but switched parties in 2018. Geography District 21 is based in Lenexa in the Johnson County suburbs of Kansas City, covering the vast majority of that city as well as smaller parts of Overland Park and Shawnee. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 3rd congressional district, and overlaps with the 14th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 30th, and 121st districts of the Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin .... Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results References {{Kansas State Senators 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 14th Senate District
Kansas's 14th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Bruce Givens since 2017; Givens was defeated in the 2020 primary election by Michael Fagg. Geography District 14 covers Chautauqua, Coffey, Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, and Woodson Counties and parts of Butler, Cowley, and Montgomery Counties in the Flint Hills to the east of Wichita. Communities in the district include El Dorado, Burlington, Eureka, Neodesha, Fredonia, Sedan, Yates Center, Douglass, Towanda, Howard, and part of Winfield. The district overlaps with Kansas's 2nd and 4th congressional districts, and with the 12th, 13th, 75th, 76th, 77th, and 79th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. It borders the state of Oklahoma Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Morning Sun (Pittsburg)
''The Morning Sun'' is a newspaper published in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States. Though its history dates to the 1880s, it has been known as the ''Morning Sun'' since 1973. It was a seven-day daily paper, but decreased to five print editions a week (Tuesday to Friday, and Sunday) as of April 2017.(24 March 2017)Morning Sun to move to five day schedule ''Morning Sun'' The paper was purchased by Pittsburg Publishing LLC in September 2021, and is currently published five days a week (Tue-Sat). History Early history (1880s to 1966) The ''Morning Sun'' traces its origin to the ''Pittsburg Headlight'', a weekly which began publication in 1885, under the ownership of brothers Millard Fillmore (M.F.) Sears and W.F. Sears and cousin Harry Sears. M.F. Sears soon became the sole owner and took on Clarence W. (C.W.) Moore as his partner. In 1886, the ''Headlight'' bought out the ''Pittsburg Democrat'', which had been published by Thomas P. Montfort. (Montfort had acquired that public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Marshall (Kansas Politician)
Bob Marshall (born December 7, 1937) is a Republican politician who was a member of the Kansas Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of about 73,000 inhabitants. Members o ..., representing the 13th district from 2009 until 2013. He was defeated in the 2012 Republican primary by Jacob LaTurner. He is a retired airplane pilot from Fort Scott. Committee assignments Sen. Marshall served on these legislative committees: * Transportation (vice-chair) * Assessment and Taxation * Confirmation Oversight * Joint Committee on Economic Development * Education * Local Government Major donors Some of the top contributors to Marshall's 2008 campaign, according to the ''National Institute on Money in State Politics'': :Kansas Republican Senatorial Committee, Crawford County Republican Central Committee, Bob Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
