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MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:47 PM Nov 2018

WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Last edited Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:38 AM - Edit history (1)

Excuse me but I LIVE IN KANSAS.

We just gave Trump the old middle finger.

Kobach is down and out and humiliated by Laura Kelly, humiliated. Any Republican who loses in Kansas is humiliated in Kansas but he was wiped out by a woman to top it all off.

Sharice Davids is going to the House. Another woman Democrat from Kansas.

Paul Davis has not been called but he is ahead and I expect he will gain another Democratic house seat for Kansas. If he doesn't I will apologize for the complete total moron who beats him. How he even got any votes is as surprising as Trump being president.

I hope they both do well in the House and make us proud.

It will be a long haul to recover from 8 years of Brownback and Colyer but Laura can do it. May this be the first harbinger of real change in my state. God knows we have all worked for a long hard time to get here.

UPDATE: Paul Davis may be losing to one of the dumbest people I have ever seen run. How this is happening I have no clue now that Kansas feels all new again but....we will still have the House and all the dems can just tie him to the chair so he does not wander off.

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WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (Original Post) MuseRider Nov 2018 OP
Yes! shenmue Nov 2018 #1
I'm happy for you! California_Republic Nov 2018 #2
James Thompson? demtenjeep Nov 2018 #3
he lost, unfortunately Celerity Nov 2018 #14
I really hate Estes Blue_playwright Nov 2018 #27
shoot demtenjeep Nov 2018 #39
The last Democrat to represent Wichita in Congress was... alp227 Nov 2018 #45
I was really sorry to see him lose. MuseRider Nov 2018 #48
I can't believe I'm saying this, but TomSlick Nov 2018 #4
Lived in Kansas during middle and high school, trc Nov 2018 #5
You mean those folks who consistently vote against their own best interest? Blue_playwright Nov 2018 #28
yes, those folks trc Nov 2018 #30
Congrats, my dear MuseRider! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2018 #6
Kobach is a nice consolation prize. Sad about where FL and GA are going. johnnyrocket Nov 2018 #7
Lynn Rogers her Lt. was 259 board memember demtenjeep Nov 2018 #8
Our schools will improve MuseRider Nov 2018 #49
WTG Kansas! workinclasszero Nov 2018 #9
As a neighbor to your west in Colorado ... Greywing Nov 2018 #10
Nice to have good news coming from Kansas for a change. Merlot Nov 2018 #11
Here you go from one Kansan to another, The Figment Nov 2018 #12
Hey hey MuseRider Nov 2018 #51
Welcome to DU, The Figment! calimary Nov 2018 #55
He'll probably get an administration appointment now. Haggis for Breakfast Nov 2018 #58
Thank You. Nt The Figment Nov 2018 #60
KKKOBACH gets the... 3catwoman3 Nov 2018 #13
Kobach was a truly atrocious candidate. Up there with Roy Moore, Corey Stewart, etc. Garrett78 Nov 2018 #15
Unprecedented Wins in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas among others Stallion Nov 2018 #16
Amazing and awesome! Kansas Democrats FakeNoose Nov 2018 #17
I love you, Kansas! pnwmom Nov 2018 #18
Laura Kelley seem to have solid governing experience. Blue_true Nov 2018 #19
God bless you. joshcryer Nov 2018 #20
Kobach was my #1 race tonight TlalocW Nov 2018 #21
Yaay! One of the best wins of the mid-terms! Congratulations! ancianita Nov 2018 #22
Congratulations - you and all of the other awesome people living in KS have long deserved this. bullwinkle428 Nov 2018 #23
Congrats! Solly Mack Nov 2018 #24
Congratulations! BadgerMom Nov 2018 #25
So, there's hope for Kansas! THAT's progress! lindysalsagal Nov 2018 #26
Evidently Farmergene Nov 2018 #29
I'm dancing over that one!!! calimary Nov 2018 #31
Florida here. Happy for you mcar Nov 2018 #32
So glad that sleeze ball Kobach went down. Yay!!! iluvtennis Nov 2018 #33
Congratulations!!!!! archiemo Nov 2018 #34
Lucky Duck! I'm just across the state line in Missouri. I was pulling for hostalover Nov 2018 #35
Outstanding work. Congrats! dalton99a Nov 2018 #36
Kobach goes down and Sharice goes up to Congress! SunSeeker Nov 2018 #37
Congratulations! SergeStorms Nov 2018 #38
Just tie him and Louis Gohmert together so they can entertain each other jmbar2 Nov 2018 #40
The Brownback miracle! hibbing Nov 2018 #41
Go Kansas! Initech Nov 2018 #42
Ann Coulter is not amused DesertRat Nov 2018 #43
Kansas : "Dear Ann. You are dead to us." Haggis for Breakfast Nov 2018 #59
...and the Koch brothers are sick about it! Snarkoleptic Nov 2018 #44
Perhaps the biggest smackdown a Kansas Republican has had since alp227 Nov 2018 #46
Well we lost my district MuseRider Nov 2018 #47
I'm really really happy for all the sane folks in Kansas Tom Rinaldo Nov 2018 #50
So happy for Kansas! workinclasszero Nov 2018 #52
Congratulations, Kansas! NastyRiffraff Nov 2018 #53
Kansas deserves better than the last guvnor... Maxheader Nov 2018 #54
This may have been the best news in the midwest. llmart Nov 2018 #56
we needed this demtenjeep Nov 2018 #57

Celerity

(43,400 posts)
14. he lost, unfortunately
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:55 PM
Nov 2018

Estes wins House District 4

https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Estes-or-Thompson-4th-District-voters-choosing-who-should-represent-them-in-DC-499865011.html

Republican Rep. Ron Estes has won a full term in Congress representing a Wichita-area district he first won in a tight special election last year for the seat formerly held by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson in a heavily Republican district that President Donald Trump won with 60 percent of the vote in 2016. Pompeo won re-election that year by 31 points. Pompeo's resignation to join Trump's administration led to a special election in which Estes defeated Thompson, a civil rights attorney.

Republicans have represented the 17-county south central Kansas district since 1994. Estes was the state's former two-term state treasurer.

The campaign was marked by personal attacks, with Estes pushing stories about Thompson's previous brushes with the law and Thompson slamming Estes for accepting donations from political action committees.

alp227

(32,026 posts)
45. The last Democrat to represent Wichita in Congress was...
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:57 AM
Nov 2018
Dan Glickman, who went on to serve as Secretary of Agriculture in the Clinton Administration and lead the Motion Picture Association of America. First elected in 1976, he was the first Democrat to sit on that seat since the Great Depression.

Since the 1994 Republican Revolution, the Wichita district has been Republican (Todd Tiahrt and Mike Pompeo served before Estes). Tiahrt's biggest accomplishment in Congress was the Tiahrt Amendment:

The Tiahrt Amendment is a provision of the U.S. Department of Justice appropriations bill that prohibits the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation.[1] This precludes gun trace data from being used in academic research of gun use in crime.[1] Additionally, the law blocks any data legally released from being admissible in civil lawsuits against gun sellers or manufacturers.[1]

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
48. I was really sorry to see him lose.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:26 AM
Nov 2018

I have been very impressed with him and damn, will Estes never go away?

trc

(823 posts)
5. Lived in Kansas during middle and high school,
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:50 PM
Nov 2018

I could not be prouder of the folks there...and I can hear those western Kansas farmers screaming into the wind...and I relish their defeat

trc

(823 posts)
30. yes, those folks
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:08 AM
Nov 2018

Who 45 is currently fucking with his tariff war but will not vote for a dem no matter what

Greywing

(1,124 posts)
10. As a neighbor to your west in Colorado ...
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 11:53 PM
Nov 2018

I share your joy! So glad Kobach is gone ... such an arrogant ass trouble maker!

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
51. Hey hey
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:30 AM
Nov 2018

I boogied a bit while out late feeding horses. They don't care how stupid I look and last night I did not care how stupid I looked.

Back atcha.

calimary

(81,299 posts)
55. Welcome to DU, The Figment!
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 04:06 PM
Nov 2018

The very thought that Kris Kobach was handed his own ass last night is enough to make me dance in the streets for the rest of the week!

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
19. Laura Kelley seem to have solid governing experience.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:01 AM
Nov 2018

If she selects a solid staff, she should do well.

Were there State legislature or senate seats up in Kansas today? If so, how did Dems do?

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
21. Kobach was my #1 race tonight
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:01 AM
Nov 2018

I have learned so much about him - his helping out with Arizona 1070 SB (the, "Papers please," law), which I have no doubt since he worked with former state senator Russell Pearce who was shown to have ties to white supremacists, that meant Kobach had them too. His scamming small towns to enact unconstitutional laws regarding immigration then having them hire him to defend the laws in court (always to lose but still getting paid big bucks), and his disenfranchisement of legal voters - most often minorities - under the guise of fighting voter fraud.

I can't tell you how much that last part pissed me off. There is nothing more unamerican than taking away someone's legal right to vote, and I never referred to him without putting, "Racist Piece-of-Shit," in front of his name in person or on Facebook.

Schadenfreude isn't a good enough description about how I feel about his loss tonight. Maybe Ubershadenfreude.

TlalocW

calimary

(81,299 posts)
31. I'm dancing over that one!!!
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:10 AM
Nov 2018

It’s a beautiful tidily thing to see Mr. Voter Suppression go down in FLAMES!

Unfortunately he’ll probably try again...

hostalover

(447 posts)
35. Lucky Duck! I'm just across the state line in Missouri. I was pulling for
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:30 AM
Nov 2018

you and glad to get ride of Harlan and Kobach!

jmbar2

(4,888 posts)
40. Just tie him and Louis Gohmert together so they can entertain each other
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 12:53 AM
Nov 2018

And then dump 'em in the swamp.

hibbing

(10,098 posts)
41. The Brownback miracle!
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:02 AM
Nov 2018

His tweet from 5 minutes ago...lol

After all the faith I had in my home state of Kansas, they let us God fearing Christians down by electing Godless liberal extremists to power.

Peace

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
43. Ann Coulter is not amused
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:33 AM
Nov 2018


@AnnCoulter
Kansas is dead to me.


8:32 PM - Nov 6, 2018

And an EPIC reply:

@MattOswaltVA
did it drop another house on your sister?

alp227

(32,026 posts)
46. Perhaps the biggest smackdown a Kansas Republican has had since
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 01:59 AM
Nov 2018

Kansas chose to re-elect FDR rather than promote its Republican governor Alf Landon to the White House in 1936. (60 years later, Kansas chose its senator Bob Dole for president.)

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
47. Well we lost my district
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:21 AM
Nov 2018

and for this I am terribly ashamed.

I guess it is a wash since it was to replace Lynn Jenkins who I don't think said 3 words other than, "I'll do what you tell me Mr. Boehner." I guess we are probably sending comic relief, it is a seat paid for by Daddy because Daddy could not stand to see this seat go to a Democrat.

There is video of this guy making odd faces, looking around, making sounds and waiting close to or more than a minute before he could answer a question about why he is who he is.

The women need to watch this guy. His friends and people who know him say he is a cheater, sadly that was all over the news and apparently there are enough people that did not care, then again, he was running against Paul Davis . Watkins says he has an open marriage and his wife replies, "What???". Watch him ladies, he thinks he is a stud.

I love the comment above that he can be tied to a chair next to Gohmert and they can entertain each other. It is quite possible that we will either never hear a word from this guy much like Jenkins, or he will be blabbering his unique brand of flappy lipped mumbling salad of nonsense.

Whatever sadness I have about sending this guy to our House is topped by the fact that once and for all Kobach was finally slammed to the ground face first and the heel marks on his backside are from my friend and my governor Laura Kelly. I cannot imagine or even consider that she will fail. All the years she has been in office she has shown a remarkable way of working with everyone and getting all the good things done.

I am proud that my state has gotten rid of some of the rubbish that has made our lives less livable, less fair and less respected. The work put into this by the Democrats in my state has paid off and to all of you who have whapped us over and over again, I told you we could do this but we were on our own out here without the support that many of your states get so it would take a while. We are not done yet, not by a long shot.

So far the funniest thing about this was the Twitter and response to Ann Coulter. I have never minded the WOO references, in fact I love them and this one was priceless. (up thread)

I am sorry I was not even able to read most of the replies until this morning (hope we can fix the rural access to good Internet speeds) and am unable to answer each of you since work calls. Still I did want to thank you all who posted. For me this was a good night, it could have been better but my state can come out of the burned out shack it has become , like the Wumps in Wump World, and learn to live again. It may take a while but my hopes are that once people see how someone like Laura can heal things, how she can lead us back out of our mess we will never again be so gridlocked by the Kochs. They got the royal kick in the teeth along with Two Scoops last night from my state. Who would have ever expected this? We did. We knew with all the hard work people were doing we would get there. More to go but for now I am thrilled with my state results.

Tom Rinaldo

(22,913 posts)
50. I'm really really happy for all the sane folks in Kansas
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:30 AM
Nov 2018

including the many Republicans who helped make this possible, but mostly a big thank you to all the hard work done by the Democrats in your state to turn it around and send Kobach to the dust heap. This is some of the best news from the midterm

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
52. So happy for Kansas!
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 09:31 AM
Nov 2018

I wish Missouri had the wisdom to throw off the GOP yoke but I am overjoyed to see what happened in Kansas!

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
54. Kansas deserves better than the last guvnor...
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 02:58 PM
Nov 2018

For that matter, any state deserves better than little sammy b.
and kohack...

Viva la revolution!!

llmart

(15,540 posts)
56. This may have been the best news in the midwest.
Wed Nov 7, 2018, 07:16 PM
Nov 2018

Here's hoping Kansas can keep the momentum going over the next few years. You would think all the farmers would finally realize which party has their best interest in mind.

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