"It"s both disappointing and ironic that Todd Tiahrt would actually skip a vote against more spending and increasing our federal deficit to attend a rally specifically about stopping Washington’s spending,” Moran campaign aide Dan Conston said in the release.
"On Tax Day, concerned Americans at tea parties across Kansas gathered to send Washington a message. … Jerry Moran stood on the House floor to put a voice and a vote to their frustrations, while the other candidate (Tiahrt) went missing."
The Tiahrt campaign fired back its release, criticizing Moran for "refusal to face Tiahrt at the Tax Day Tea Party forum in Johnson County."
"Jerry's unwillingness to show up at scheduled forums … illustrates his well documented timidity and lack of courage to face opposition," Tiahrt campaign aide Michelle Schroeder wrote.
An interesting side note: Traditionally the Kansas senate delegation is split between a western Kansan, where Hays lives, and an eastern Kansan (Wichita to the Missouri state line), where Tiahrt lives. Kansas' other senator lives in Dodge City--which is out west in more ways than one.
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4 comments:
Would you care to explain your comment about Dodge City being "out west in more ways than one"?
I will be waiting for this. Thanks.
Chill out, dude...No harm meant. It is in western Kansas AND it is viewed as the archtpye of an Old West town.
Right on! I lived out there for 16 years. Married in Dodge & that's where the first six of our seven were born.
I remember my very first impression coming into the town for my job interview back in '85. Around the curve, up the hill, the cattle smell wafting over the road, cresting the hill, seeing the panorama of the town, and a tumbleweed blowing across the road.
From the east. Yes, the National Beef yard, which I blogged about in 2007.
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-kansas-kronikles-dodge-city-beef.html
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