No Democrat in 3rd District Race Means Yoder Runs Unchallenged

[pstokely]

Source: Fox 4 (not Fox news)

Congressman Yoder’s nude swim in the Sea of Galilee in Israel has been overshadowed by his fellow Congressman Todd Akin’s comment about rape and abortion. But you aren’t hearing a lot about Yoder’s misstep from his democratic opponent because he doesn’t have one.
One national news article in the Daily Kos, a political web site, says that Kansas Democrats should be embarrassed they couldn’t put anyone’s name on the ballot against Yoder because that means no one was in a position to try to take advantage of the skinny dipping incident. But the Kansas Democratic Party says it wasn’t for lack of trying.
State Senator David Haley (D-Kansas City, KS) agrees Democrats should be embarrassed they have no one running against Yoder.
“That’s a concern, that’s a failure on the part of the Kansas Democratic Party to not field a qualified candidate,” he says.

Read more: http://fox4kc.com/2012/08/22/no-democrat-in-3rd-district-race-means-yoder-runs-unchallenged/

[freshwest]

1. Wow, major mistake there. Or is it solid red?

[DallasNE]

5. Pretty Solid Red

Redistricting made the district rather red as Yoder won 59% of the vote in 2010. Yoder has a long history of controversy, including possible drunk driving (he refused the test and paid a $165 fine as a result). It looks like he got special treatment too.

2009 traffic stop
In February 2009, Yoder plead guilty to refusing a roadside preliminary Breathalyzer test, following a 2:31 a.m. traffic stop on the K-10 expressway. Yoder was pulled over for speeding and, after declining the officer's request to take a roadside breath test, Yoder took and passed a field sobriety test. The officer cited Yoder for speeding and for refusing to take the breathalyzer test, and then let Yoder drive himself home. In a plea agreement, the speeding charge was dropped. Yoder pleaded guilty to refusing law enforcement's request for a breath test and paid a $165 fine

[longship]

2. Unchallenged, and apparently, unclothed.

nt

[alp227]

3. KS-3 had been a blue district throughout the 2000s (with Dennis Moore)

but in the Tea Party takeover of 2010, Dennis Moore's wife Stephene Moore (a victim of a smear campaign in which Yoder registered stephenemoore.com...http://web.archive.org/web/20101014021117/http://stephenemoore.com/) lost to Yoder.

[Ken Burch]

4. Perhaps they could get an independent into the contest

in exchange for the independent's agreement to join the Dem caucus if elected.

You'd think somebody might be willing to do that now, given the changed circumstances.

[freshwest]

10. It's too late to file. And from the link, it appears they're messing up there. A Democrat who'd...

Served 4 times left the party saying they were running people off, who didn't toe the party line, whatever that means. In that area, no matter how much progressives decry it, you probably can't get a liberal elected no matter how great we may think it is. And these guys having the majority have made a tremendous difference since 2010.
A very bad one as they won't work with moderate or liberal Democrats at all.

[bahrbearian]

6. Howard Dean would not have let this happen.

[Sherman A1]

12. Precisely

Even if there is not a snowballs chance in ....... There should at the very least be a name on the ballot. People deserve a choice and I blame the Party for not making sure that there wasn't a name on the ballot.

[knitter4democracy]

14. My exact thought. We need his 50 State Strategy back.

Frickin' Blue Dog Dems. We need the good doctor back!

[brooklynite]

20. Except, of course, when he did...

...Howard Dean, as DNC Chair did not pick Candidates, nor did he ensure that they existed. He ensured that State Parties had funding and support to help elect candidates that were running.

It took me all of five minutes to find out that in the 2008 election in Arkansas, none of the House seats were contested by the non-incumbent Party. I'm willing to bet that I'll find similar examples in Texas and elsewhere.

[DeSwiss]

7. Gee.....

...I wonder how that happened?



CARNAC THE MAGNIFICENT


CARNAC: I must have absolute silence...

A: Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious and a Kansas Democrat.
Q: Name two words that have no meaning.

[patrice]

8. What a Dem would be up against: Check out the Yoders in Kansas

This is a national database of farm subsidy recipients, queried for family-name of Yoder. Maybe someone could download it and filter for Kansas, but you can just page through it and see how much the Yoder family is pulling in agriculture subsidies:

http://farm.ewg.org/addrsearch.php?search_input_text=Yoder&search_input_image.x=13&search_input_image.y=6

Recall that our state was the "home" of Bob Dole, of Archer Daniels Midland fame, and that our governor SBUSIDY-Sam Brownback got his start in political life as Kansas agricultural secretary, so Kevin's financial roots run really deep in this state and nationally.

EWG mentions that it's actually a rather small group of rich corporate Kansas "farmers", but let's put emphasis on corporate, which of course has ties outside of this state and with the farm bill stalled this year, they have even more motive to back Kevin.

And then there's Kevin's mentor, Brownback, who has deep ties to evangelicals across the nation:

http://www.yuricareport.com/PoliticalAnalysis/GodsSenatorBrownback.html

[nanabugg]

13. You would think the Dems would be smart enough to make this a major campaing issue. nt

[RKP5637]

16. From what I've heard KS has been written off as a lost cause by the DNC, money and time are

better spent elsewhere than in KS.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. So now there's not a Dem candidate for the 3rd District of Kansas

and the 3rd District of Arkansas

[iamthebandfanman]

11. so sad.

there are few positions in government around here where people run opposed..
wish i was qualified enough to run
heck, i think this time around theres school board seat up for grabs that nobody is even running for..lol

[glacierbay]

15. The atmosphere has gotten so poisonous

that I'm surprised anyone would want to run these days. I know I wouldn't want to. I put up signs for my local Dem candidates and for Pres. Obama in my front yard and by the next day, they had either been torn down or defaced with graffiti.

[RKP5637]

17. I've seen that too, the signs get stolen all of the time. It's very telling about what republicans

are made of. They lie, cheat, steal and are frankly a despicable lot.

[glacierbay]

18. Unfortunately I live in a very very red town

and the local cops won't do anything except take a report which is just about useless, so I just keep putting up new ones.
What else can one do?

[RKP5637]

19. That's about all one can do. Some neighbors have put the signs right up by their front doors to

make it more inconvenient for street-snatchers. A guy down the way in the last election put up a large sign saying anytime you steal one of my signs, I send another $100 to the candidates. He had money and was serious.