By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 05:02 PM  | 

To The Johnson County Sun’s credit, one thing the left-wing paper always does is to offer an opportunity for all candidates for major races to write in their own words why they’re running for office.  The Sun asks a few questions, and candidates can write almost anything they want, under a certain number of words. The responses from candidates for Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees were | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 16th at 08:10 PM  | 

Kansas City Star columnist Steve Rose, a guy who consistently lies about and attacks conservatives (it doesn’t matter whether this issue is economic conservatism or pro-life law enforcement), recently dedicated a column to another conservative candidate (James Nelson) and me; we’re running for positions on the local community college board.  It’s a race where three candidates can win at-large positions, and so that’s why Rose | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 14th at 02:22 AM  | 

I’d like to highlight this column by the respected regional editorial news site Kaw and Border, ”Steve’s Rose Colored Glasses Regarding JCCC.” For a brief back-ground.  Steve Rose now writes a column for The Kansas City Star.  He used to own a paper that his father started, The Johnson County Sun, which is now in its waning days.  While Rose is liberal, it’s not his liberalism that’s troublesome, but | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 4th at 06:41 PM  | 

Click here to read a Web-friendly version of the original Email.  Or, please read below. Benjamin Hodge Kansas GOP Delegate, 2009-’10 Kansas Representative, 2007-’08 JCCC Trustee, 2005-’09 Web site: BenjaminHodge.com Phone:  (913) 259-4236 Email: contact@benjaminhodge.com Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Listen to the Audio:Phone calls go out to voters from Johnson County Sheriff Currie Myers (ret.) and three-term State Representative Patricia Lightner, in support of Hodge for JCCC Board campaign I’m | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  January 7th at 10:40 PM  | 

At 50,000 thousands students every year (many non-degree-seeking), Johnson County Community College is the largest in Kansas and among the largest in the Midwest. They don’t care much for any law, state or federal.  Just since 2005, the college has been guilty of violating the state open meetings law, the state open records law, the federal First Amendment, there has been at least one likely | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 01:40 AM  | 

“Learning comes first” at Johnson County Community College.  Or something. Click here to listen to this interview at the previous Red County article, in which I’ve included the YouTube audio of the Darla Jaye program from Friday, May 28. Below is the transcript from the Darla Jaye program on Friday night, May 28, 2010. Darla Jaye spent the full first hour during the 6-7 p.m. slot discussing | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  May 30th at 12:38 AM  | 

Below is the YouTube audio recording from the Darla Jaye program on Friday night, May 28, 2010.  Darla Jaye spent the full first hour during the 6-7 p.m. slot discussing the latest scandal at JCCC under President Terry Calaway and Board Chair Jon Stewart.  Kathy Brown is a nurse and an attorney who went back to school in early 2009 for a year-long course, but | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  May 28th at 05:25 PM  | 

Click here to view a Web page version of my recent Email on this topic. Listen in tonight at 6 p.m. on 980 AM radio, as Darla Jaye interviews Catholic lawyer and former Johnson County Community College student Kathy Brown.  Click here to listen live at KMBZ’s Web site. It is amazing, the ongoing unethical and incompetent leadership of JCCC leaders President Terry Calaway, elected Trustee | Read More »