National Republicans make large ad buy for Kansas House race

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press

Updated 7:00 pm, Thursday, April 6, 2017


WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic candidate James Thompson accused national Republicans Thursday of trying to buy a Kansas House seat by making a large advertising buy less than a week before the nation's first congressional election since Donald Trump won the White House.

His comments came following a candidate event at Wichita State University in which Republican Ron Estes failed to show up, the latest in 10 candidate forums and debates Estes has skipped during the campaign. Estes has attended three others.

"I think it shows how desperate they are," Thompson said. "Rather than have a candidate who will actually get out and work and listen to people, they are trying to buy the campaign because that is what they do."

Este's campaign countered that Republican participated with Thompson in a forum earlier Thursday at the Wichita Ministerial League, but deflected a question about whether the last-minute ad buy by the National Republican Congressional Committee indicated growing fears of losing a seat the GOP has held for more than two decades.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/National-Republicans-pouring-money-into-Kansas-11056281.php

[SirBrockington]

1. This

This is were Bernie Sanders needs to be and what would do the most good at this point

[MuseRider]

2. He was here.

He met with the candidate who then introduced him at the fundraiser for the party here. This is a man that was inspired by Bernie, worked for his campaign. Bernie has been here, he won the primary here by a large margin and was asked by the State party to speak at Washington Days. I believe he has been involved a little more than that but I have no personal knowledge about that.

[cstanleytech]

3. Yes the Repugnants are afraid and with good reason because if they lose this seat now then

it shows that the party as a whole is weak which is what they are because the only way they have managed to keep control of so much of the government is by gerrymandering the hell out of alot of districts in this country and by passing voter ID laws whose true intent is to keep people who legally could vote from being able to vote at all by putting as many hurdles in front of them to jump over as possible.

[diva77]

4. ...not sure of leanings of Houston Chronicle -link to Thompson goes to an obit of guy with same name

I clicked on James Thompson's name in the article and it brought me to this page:

http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=news%2Fus&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22James+Thompson%22

James Thompson

November 17, 2015

James Thompson. JAMES DANIEL THOMPSON 1924-2015 JIM THOMPSON was born in Texarkana, Texas on October 22, 1924, to Charles A. Thompson and Carmen Fletcher White, and ...

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Meanwhile, I'm glad to see him calling out his opponent for attempting to purchase a house seat!!

[MuseRider]

5. :-)

He is very much alive and younger than I am. Funny. I just saw him a few weeks ago so I am pretty certain he is still running from this side of the dirt!

[diva77]

6. relieved to hear this!!

[kimbutgar]

7. The Democrats should run an ad asking," how has the GOP improved your lives in Kansas"?

Can you name one thing that has helped you?

Maybe the Dems should start making thought provoking ads.