By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 11:00 PM  | 

KU professor Stephen Ware:  ”This violates basic equality among citizens, the principle of one-person, one-vote. The current system elevates one small group and treats everyone else like second-class citizens.” Kansas is the only state in the union that grants lawyers a majority control of the judicial selection process.  I can’t imagine how it’s constitutional.  10,000 lawyers control 2.8 million Kansans.  In short, it doesn’t matter | Read More »

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)  |  December 29th at 03:36 AM  | 

PART 1 OF 4. Click here for the full results and methodology to our 22-question poll of likely April 2013 voters in Gardner, Kansas. The city of Gardner, Kansas, is a suburb of Greater Kansas City and one of the fastest growing cities in the state.  In 2010 to 2011, the entire state grew at a 0.6% rate, while Gardner experienced almost three times the | 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 13th at 10:42 PM  | 

It seems like every mainstream media outlet says that “moderates” or “moderate Republicans” lost in the Senate primaries of Tuesday, August 7. Nope. Listen to the interview between Paul Ibbetson, host of 105.7 FM’s “Conscience of Kansas” program, and Benjamin Hodge about the major conservative victories over the far-left “Republicans” in the Kansas Senate in the August 7 primary elections. “The Conscience of Kansas” runs | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  January 25th at 11:05 AM  | 

Holton, Kansas, Rep. Trent LeDoux – “My concern is this contract with Accenture, which, in my opinion, is an illegal contract.” Shawnee, Kansas, Rep. John Rubin, former federal judge and FDIC Regional Counsel — “The darn thing [ObamaCare] is unconstitutional.  Why would we take steps in Kansas to implement anything?” Topeka Capital-Journal: A small, defiant group of House Republicans joined forces with the tea-party flavored Union of Patriots to | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  December 27th at 09:47 PM  | 

An important video to watch, from a recent Overland Park seminar sponsored by the Union of Patriots (their Facebook page is here). First, here is a speech by Rep. Charlotte O’Hara, the only legislator willing to publicly criticize a needless $160 million project by Sam Brownback that is deeply intertwined with ObamaCare.  Overland Park Rep. O’Hara was removed from a health care committee by Speaker | Read More »

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  October 27th at 11:28 PM  | 

Michael Barone writes about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s healthy approval numbers.  Walker may soon face a recall effort led by Democrats, but the Republican looks reasonably strong. Winning in 2010 and soon after implementing major government union reforms, the conservative Walker has been a constant recipient of attacks by teachers unions and other powerful anti-taxpayer groups.  Given that the mainstream media died years ago basically everwhere, 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 24th at 02:58 AM  | 

On Wednesday night, September 7, precinct leaders within Overland Park met, and voted to officially form the Overland Park Republican Central Committee.  I offer my gratitudue and congratulations to the many people who made this possible.  Soon, we’ll have a Web site up, so check back to this Web site for further updates. I was given the idea to form this Overland Park group after attending | Read More »