Kansas scores from Heritage: Tim Huelskamp 89%, Mike Pompeo 78%, Kevin Yoder 70%

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 »

Debt ceiling vote: Early test of courage for Kansas Representatives Huelskamp, Pompeo, Yoder, and Senator Moran

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 »

Kansas-04: Liberal Republican Jean Schodorf labels opponents ‘extremists’ & ‘scorpions,’ tells us about her ‘clean campaign’

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  July 28th at 06:29 AM  | 

If you’re pro-life, support tax reform, want parent-driven school choice rather than NEA-dictated K-12 education, Jean Schodorf apparently thinks you’re an “extremist.” And Mike Pompeo and Wink Hartman are like scorpions. But Jean Schodorf wants to tell you about her clean campaigning. Here is a very lazy and pro-liberal news story by Wichita’s NBC affiliate, KSN Channel 3.  In it, KSN effectively performs a campaign advertisement for congressional candidate Jean Schodorf, who agrees more with Democrats than Republicans on | Read More »