Kansas 3rd District Survey: Kevin Yoder 25%, Patricia Lightner 21%

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  June 9th at 08:38 AM  | 

This past weekend, my political action committee Kansans for Government Reform commissioned a survey in Johnson County and in the 4th Congressional District.  Here are the results for four questions — 3rd District Republican primary, 4th District Republican primary, Sam Brownback’s approval rating, and the ideological breakdown of Republican primary voters.  Note that for budgetary reasons we did not survey the entire 3rd District, but | Read More »

iCaucus admits defeat. Restores Kansas endorsement after protest.

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  May 17th at 08:11 PM  | 

After a week of protesting by iCaucus members in Kansas, iCaucus leaders have acknowledged they were incorrect to have withdrawn the endorsement of Patricia Lightner in Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District.  I’ll copy their statement later on in this article. Let me be clear, that I have little doubt about these two things: iCaucus’ leaders were fully willing to hold Patricia Lightner in the 3rd District | Read More »

Hodge’s speech at Libertarian Party meeting in Overland Park, Kansas

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  April 24th at 05:53 PM  | 

I appreciate the invitation to speak from Jeff Caldwell, the 3rd District coordinator for the Kansas Libertarian Party.  This month at the Blue Valley Library at 151st St. and Antioch, Amanda Grosserode and I spoke at the Libertarian Party’s monthly meeting.  Here is a 10-minute edited version of my speech, in which I address the libertarian roots of conservatism (and Republicanism), the non-libertarian actions of | Read More »

Kansas 3rd District: Conservatives should rally around Patricia Lightner. It’s time for Nick Jordan to drop out, for the good of the pro-life movement.

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  February 26th at 05:42 PM  | 

I’m still scratching my head over this one. Republican congressional candidate Nick Jordan released an internal poll, with the theme that it’s great news for his campaign.  But it’s not great news.  It’s not even good news.  It’s bad news, and both the results and the campaign’s separate, odd decision to release the poll give us yet two more reasons to vote for somebody else | Read More »