Category: Politics
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Year in review: 2012
Following is a selection of stories that appeared on Voice for Liberty in 2012. Was it a good or bad year for the causes of economic freedom, individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and civil society?
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Wichita Campaign for Liberty meeting December 13, 2012
The live broadcast of the meeting is over, but you can still see it below. The topic was campaign finance reform in Wichita and Kansas. Visit the Wichita Campaign for Liberty Facebook page, too.
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Huelskamp not deterred
At a time that conservatives are concerned with the direction Speaker John Boehner is taking in negotiations over the fiscal cliff, he gives conservatives another reason to worry.
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Tracking Sedgwick County election returns
Updates of election returns for Sedgwick County races through a Google Docs spreadsheet. It will automatically update as I add data. Click here or watch below.
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Kansas election preview
It’s sort of a quiet election in Kansas this year.
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Election night coverage from Watchdog Wire
Election night coverage from Watchdog Wire and Franklin Center.
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In Sedgwick County, a judicial candidate takes the low road
Voters are accustomed to political campaigns that sink low with distorted facts, missing facts, innuendo, and outright lies. Judges, however, ought to be held to a higher standard, and in Kansas, the Supreme Court has rules for judges to follow in their campaigns. But the campaign for incumbent Richard T. Ballinger in Sedgwick County, Kansas,…
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Kansas Republicans don’t need to do this
In elections, campaigns may divert from useful discussions of the issues to engage in mudslinging and innuendo. Both parties do it, but an example from the Kansas Republican Party crosses a line and may actually hurt the candidate it was intended to help.
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Wichita’s presidential debate
Kansas isn’t a swing state in the presidential election, but we had our very own debate nonetheless. Kansas State Representative Jim Ward (D-Wichita) represented President Obama and David Kensinger stood in for Mitt Romney. The debate took place on the campus of Wichita State University on October 30, 2012, and was sponsored by the university’s…
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Sedgwick County advance voting
Sedgwick County advance voting statistics.