By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 10:20 PM  | 

PART 4 OF 4 about poll in Gardner, Kansas.  You can read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here. In August 2011, I polled Kansas’ second-largest city of Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, MO.  We learned, in part: 67% of voters wanted to balance the city budget through cuts in spending, and only 23% wanted higher taxes. Asked a different | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 15th at 09:30 PM  | 

I have trouble calling KMBZ 980 a “business.”  Businesses want to make money, and I’m not sure KMBZ wants to.   John Landsberg at Bottom Line Communications reports that KMBZ 980 AM’s Program Director Neil Larrimore was let go. KMBZ 980 has Rush Limbaugh on from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is not worth listening to after that.  I can’t comment on the morning programming, because I | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  September 30th at 01:19 AM  | 

Originally published at KansasProgress.com. To be clear, I’m not going to take a position on this for the time being.  But I will say two things: One, I was disappointed by the Seinfeld-ish (it didn’t say much) joint public statement made by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and my Congressman Kevin Yoder, whose district includes Sprint’s headquarters.  In the statement, they explicitly supported mergers “in principle,” and they wrote | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  September 6th at 09:02 AM  | 

Heritage Action is the 501c4 lobbying arm of theHeritage Foundation.  They’ve released what Daniel Horowitz at RedState describes as “the first comprehensive conservative report card of Congress.”  Horowitz writes, “We can now determine which members of the ‘Tea Party Congress’ drink a hardcore brew.” Unlike most other scorecards, this one was designed to separate the men from the boys.  Most traditional scorecards, and most prominently, the ACU | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  April 7th at 06:16 PM  | 

Click here to read the original Email in a Web-friendly page. Wednesday, April 6, 2011 View final internal favorable/unfavorable numbers for several local politicians Note to supporters: We are very pleased with these campaign favorability numbers, when compared to other candidates.  Particularly when considering how many county-wide mailings were purchased by our opponents. Dear {FIRST_NAME}, Scroll down if you want to see a list of “favorable” | 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)  |  November 22nd at 12:09 PM  | 

A good article by The Wall Street Journal.  Future US House Speaker John Boehner will be pressuring all Republicans to support raising the federal debt ceiling above its current — and staggering — $14.3 trillion level.  I feel good about how Reps-elect Tim Huelskamp and Mike Pompeo will, but I’m unsure about the rest of Kansas’ delegation to Washington. But some of the incoming Republicans, such | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  November 15th at 01:12 PM  | 

The biggest upset in 2010, and perhaps in the past decade — since Kay O’Connor’s 2000 primary election defeat of incumbent Kansas Senator Rich Becker — was the upset in the Overland Park-based Fourth District Johnson County Commission race. Last week, I discussed one of the reasons why Jason Osterhaus beat liberal Republican Larry Winn the Third for 4th District County Commission:  Osterhaus did not pretend to | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  June 29th at 12:56 AM  | 

I am genuinely impressed by this man’s leadership. Meet Matt Webb from Overland Park, KS.  Until recently, he had been one of three candidates running in Kansas House District 20, currently held by moderate-to-liberal Republican Kevin Yoder, who is retiring from the Legislature after eight years (at the young age of 34) in order to run for the US Congress. The three-way primary in District | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  June 24th at 07:04 AM  | 

I admit that with this headline, I’m trying to get Erick Erickson’s attention. Tom McClintock is the US Congressman from California’s 4th Congressional District.  He is supported by Club for Growth and he is a respected, national leader in Congress. Karen Handel is endorsed by RedState.com and Congressman Tom Price.  Handel is running for governor of Georgia. Conservative Arizona State Senator Pamela Gorman is endorsed by | Read More »