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2012 Kansas Elections
The Kansas 2012 general elections were held on November 6, 2012. Primary elections were held on August 7, 2012. U.S. House of Representatives 1st congressional district Republican incumbent Tim Huelskamp, who had represented the 1st district since 2011, won re-election unopposed. 2nd congressional district Republican incumbent Lynn Jenkins, who has represented the 2nd district since 2009, ran for re-election. Tobias Schlingensiepen, a pastor and police chaplain, sought and received the Democratic nomination to challenge Jenkins. He defeated Scott Barnhart, a farmer, and Bob Eye, an attorney, in the Democratic primary. Dennis Hawver ran as a Libertarian. Jenkins defeated Schlingensiepen and Hawver in the general election. 3rd congressional district Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder, who had represented the 3rd district since 2011, defeated Libertarian candidate Joel Balam to win re-election. No Democrats ran against Yoder. 4th congressional district Republican incumbent M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. The tribe's name (natively ') is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 12th Senate District
Kansas's 12th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Caryn Tyson since 2013. Geography District 12 covers Allen County, Kansas, Allen, Anderson County, Kansas, Anderson, Franklin County, Kansas, Franklin, and Linn County, Kansas, Linn Counties and parts of Bourbon County, Kansas, Bourbon and Miami County, Kansas, Miami Counties along the eastern edge of the state. Communities in the district include Ottawa, Kansas, Ottawa, Iola, Kansas, Iola, Osawatomie, Kansas, Osawatomie, Garnett, Kansas, Garnett, Humboldt, Kansas, Humboldt, Wellsville, Kansas, Wellsville, and Pleasanton, Kansas, Pleasanton. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 2nd congressional district, and overlaps with the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 59th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. It borders the state of Missouri. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Brungardt
Peter F. Brungardt (born January 30, 1947) is a former Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the Kansas's 24th Senate district, 24th district from 2001 to 2013. His previous political experiences include the Salina, Kansas, Salina City Planning Commission (1986–1991), Salina City Commission (1991–1999), and Mayor of Salina (1993–1994, 1998–1999). An optometrist, he is married to Rosie Brungardt. Committee assignments Brungardt served on these Kansas State Legislature, legislative committees: * Federal and State Affairs (chair) * Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations (chair) * Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight (vice-chair) * Ethics and Elections * Calendar and Rules * Public Health and Welfare Major donors Some of the top contributors to Brungardt's 2008 campaign, according to the ''National Institute on Money in State Politics'': : Kansas Republican Senatorial Committee, Kansas Bankers Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 24th Senate District
Kansas's 24th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican former Kansas House of Representatives, State Representative J. R. Claeys. Geography District 24 is based in the city of Salina, Kansas, Salina, also covering Abilene, Kansas, Abilene, Solomon, Kansas, Solomon, Chapman, Kansas, Chapman, and other smaller communities in Saline County, Kansas, Saline County and some of Dickinson County, Kansas, Dickinson County. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 69th, 70th, 71st, and 108th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results in District 24 References {{Kansas State Senators Kansas Senate districts, 24 Dickinson County, Kansas Saline County, Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics (RCP) is an American political news website and polling data aggregator formed in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency account executive Tom Bevan. The site features selected political news stories and op-eds from various news publications in addition to commentary from its own contributors. The site is prominent during election seasons for its aggregation of polling data. In 2008, the site's founders said their goal was to give readers "ideological diversity". According to a 2012 article in the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', competitors and people inside politics have praised the site's balance of stories, although a 2020 article in ''The New York Times'' noted that since the end of 2017, RealClearPolitics has had a rightward, pro-Donald Trump turn in its content. According to a 2020 Knight Foundation study, RealClearPolitics is generally read by a moderate audience, leaning slightly toward the right. Establishment The web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used '' AP Stylebook''. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Reitz
Roger P. Reitz (born November 11, 1932) is an American doctor and politician, who served as a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the Kansas's 22nd Senate district, 22nd district from 2005 until 2013. Reitz served as a representative in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2002 to 2005. He previously had served as mayor and city commissioner for the Manhattan City Commission and was president and member of Unified School District 383 School Board. Reitz graduated from Kansas State University and is graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1959 with an M.D. He served in the United States Army as a physician. He is a practicing, board-certified doctor of internal medicine. He is married to Virginia Reitz and lives in Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan. He and his wife have five children. Elections 2012 In the 2012 Republican primary, Reitz was defeated in a three-way race in the Republican primary on August 7, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 22nd Senate District
Kansas's 22nd Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Usha Reddi since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Tom Hawk. Geography District 22 is based in Manhattan, covering all of Clay and Riley Counties as well as a small part of northern Geary County. Other communities in the district include Clay Center, Ogden, Wakefield, Riley, and parts of western Junction City. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 51st, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, 68th, and 70th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin .... Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results References {{Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. The paper is the major newspaper of the Kansas City metropolitan area and has widespread circulation in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. History Nelson family ownership (1880–1926) The paper, originally called ''The Kansas City Evening Star'', was founded September 18, 1880, by William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. Morss. The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the '' Fort Wayne News Sentinel'' (and earlier owned by Nelson's father) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful Presidential run of Samuel Tilden. Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 21st Senate District
Kansas's 21st Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Dinah Sykes since 2017; Sykes was first elected as a Republican Party (United States), Republican but switched parties in 2018. Geography District 21 is based in Lenexa, Kansas, Lenexa in the Johnson County, Kansas, Johnson County suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, covering the vast majority of that city as well as smaller parts of Overland Park, Kansas, Overland Park and Shawnee, Kansas, Shawnee. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 3rd congressional district, and overlaps with the 14th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 30th, and 121st districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results in District 21 References {{Kansas State Senators Kansas Senate districts, 21 Johnson County, Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 14th Senate District
Kansas's 14th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Bruce Givens since 2017; Givens was defeated in the 2020 primary election by Michael Fagg. Geography District 14 covers Chautauqua, Coffey, Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, and Woodson Counties and parts of Butler, Cowley, and Montgomery Counties in the Flint Hills to the east of Wichita. Communities in the district include El Dorado, Burlington, Eureka, Neodesha, Fredonia, Sedan, Yates Center, Douglass, Towanda, Howard, and part of Winfield. The district overlaps with Kansas's 2nd and 4th congressional districts, and with the 12th, 13th, 75th, 76th, 77th, and 79th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. It borders the state of Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Morning Sun (Pittsburg)
''The Morning Sun'' is a newspaper published in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States. Though its history dates to the 1880s, it has been known as the ''Morning Sun'' since 1973. It was a seven-day daily paper, but decreased to five print editions a week (Tuesday to Friday, and Sunday) as of April 2017.(24 March 2017)Morning Sun to move to five day schedule ''Morning Sun'' The paper was purchased by Pittsburg Publishing LLC in September 2021, and is currently published five days a week (Tue-Sat). History Early history (1880s to 1966) The ''Morning Sun'' traces its origin to the ''Pittsburg Headlight'', a weekly which began publication in 1885, under the ownership of brothers Millard Fillmore (M.F.) Sears and W.F. Sears and cousin Harry Sears. M.F. Sears soon became the sole owner and took on Clarence W. (C.W.) Moore as his partner. In 1886, the ''Headlight'' bought out the ''Pittsburg Democrat'', which had been published by Thomas P. Montfort. (Montfort had acquired that public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
