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)  |  January 2nd at 03:28 PM  | 

PART 2 OF 4.  You can read Part 1 here. Important note: this poll was done in early December 2012, long before Kansas Senator Pat Roberts voted to increase taxes on 77% of households, to increase taxes on “more than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000,” to increase the death tax, to increase taxes by $41 for every $1 in spending cuts, when | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  December 14th at 07:01 PM  | 

US Senator Pat Roberts, who chose to join Sam Brownback in cheerleading in 2009 for Kathleen Sebelius to run our national healthcare, is currently running for re-election. I think Roberts is very vulnerable to a primary challenger, especially if it’s one of two men:  First District Congressman Tim Huelskamp or Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Recently, the PAC I chair performed a poll the Kansas City | 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)  |  December 18th at 03:52 PM  | 

Good for Senator Jerry Moran.  President Obama was quick to support this legislation, and establishment Republicans were quick to compromise.  It extends President Bush’s 2001 tax cuts for merely two years.  It also extends unemployment benefits for a year, but it provides no way of paying for those benefits, so it adds to the national debt. Conservative leader Mike Pence voted against the bill, along with | 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 »