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Kansas GOP objects to Sebelius’s campaigning in Iowa

By Chase Martyn 9/16/08

Although Iowans may be pleased to see Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius stumping in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and West Burlington today, Republicans in her home state have been critical of her rigorous campaign schedule.

Could Kansan be the GOP’s man in Iowa?

By Douglas Burns 5/13/07

[Commentary] Poll-topping John McCain and Rudy Giuliani should eye closely the Iowa movements of McCain’s lower-profile colleague in the U.S. Senate, Republican Sam Brownback of Kansas.
Brownback is a true believer social conservative, and a Christian who expands his scope of issues beyond abortion and homosexuality to matters of poverty, forced prostitution in foreign nations, fighting [...]

A progressive guide to rural Iowa: ‘What’s The Matter With Kansas?’

By Douglas Burns 5/9/07

In one of the more scathing, yet effective, editorials ever penned by a small-town newspaperman, William Allen White of The Emporia Gazette in 1896 took on the issue of “What’s the matter with Kansas?”
He blasted the emerging populist movement. The relatively young GOP picked up the brilliantly constructed opinion piece and used it to boost [...]

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