Ruth Teichman (born January 2, 1943) 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
33rd district from 2001 to 2013. She was previously a member of the Stafford Board of Education for 20 years.
A farmer and a banker from
Stafford
Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about south of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Wolverhampton, and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 at the 2021–2022 United Kingd ...
, she is married to Dennis Teichman.
Committee assignments
Teichman served on these legislative committees:
* Financial Institutions and Insurance (chair)
* Natural Resources (vice-chair)
* Education
* Organization, Calendar and Rules
* Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments and Benefits
* Ways and Means
Major donors
Some of the top contributors to Teichman's 2008 campaign, according to the ''National Institute on Money in State Politics'':
: Ruth Teichman (self-finance), Kansas Association of Realtors, Koch Industries, Kansas National Education Association, Kansas Hospital Association, American Family Insurance, Farmers Insurance Group
Financial, insurance and real estate companies were her largest donor group.
Elections
Teichman was defeated by Mitch Holmes by a 7,635-6,762 margin in the Republican Primary on Aug. 7, 2012. Seven of eight moderate state senate Republicans, including Morris, targeted by the
Koch brothers, were defeated in the 2012 Republican primary, giving incumbent Governor
Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011 and as the List of governors of Kansas, 46th governor of K ...
the margin he needed to effectively restructure state taxation, exempting "S" status filers such as
Koch Industries
Koch, Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. Its subsidiarie ...
from income taxes.
The great Kansas Republican Purge of 2012
''Slate magazine
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'', Dave Weigel, August 8, 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
References
External links
Kansas Senate BiographyProject Vote Smart profile
* Campaign contributions
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Teichman's website
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Republican Party Kansas state senators
Living people
School board members in Kansas
People from Stafford, Kansas
Women state legislators in Kansas
1943 births
21st-century American women politicians
21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature