Hope for the Johnson County 17

If you are a season ticket holder - no fair saying other teams pick better players. No fair saying other teams have better coaches. No fair other teams have smarter plays. No fair other teams ask their fans if they are in better playoff status than they were eight years ago.

Makes about as much sense as trying to mandate adherence to your wilting right wing leadership. But keep on trying to force people how to vote or act you 1st amendment followers you. Especially those of you who teach law. You would think you would hold high that amendment that appears first ....

But I guess not.

Wow - loyalty oaths in the USA in the 21st century! Right out of the 1950's - keep up that nonsense Republicans and you might have the Democrats winning Kansas yet ! I think I will stay Independent.

for precinct committee people is that they promise to serve the party's candidates and help them get elected. To do otherwise, loyalty oath, or not, is to lie to your constituents.

Quite frankly, this complete lack of integrity is what we've come to expect from the Langworthys and the neighbors.

Congratulations to the party for trying to maintain the integrity of those who hold office as Republicans.

As for the quislings, they're beneath contempt. White trash one and all.

none of you lefties mentioned Sebelius backstabbing of Mark Gilstrap.

Good grief. The KS GOP is heading down the same path as Joe McCarthy.

And he is dead.

that Ronnie Metzger was replaced by a Democrat in the state legislature. The people in the 24th district are finally allowed to be represented by an official they actually elected.

these aren't ordinary voters who are free to support and vote for whomever they wish, these are political operatives that held themselves out to the voters as being interested in supporting Republican candidates. They lied. They took their resources and supported Democrats.

The comments above trivialize that support. From Kansas Liberty we know that:

"Marienne Brown, of Aubry Township precinct 2, for example, donated $3600 to the Obama campaign, while Suzanne Allen, of Mission Hills' precinct 3, donated $500 to Obama, $1000 to Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Boyda, $2300 to Moore, $1000 to Democrat Jim Slattery's campaign against GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, and $1500 to six other Democrats."

I respect people who openly state their Democratic affiliation in a county that's overwhelmingly Republican, and the same for Republicans in heavily Democratic areas, but these people are white trash. They have no integrity, they're agent provocateurs there to undermine the Republican Party by stealth. Scum, one and all.

we Democrats who serve as precinct leaders are not forced to adhere to a loyalty oath. We had our county elections last week and they were uneventful enough that the media left us alone.

We can work together for the good of the county and our party. And since we doubled our representation in Topeka, I think you can say our strategy is working.

But we are enjoying watching the JoCO GOP fight.

I'd hardly call them white trash for supporting Democrats. That is a little much.

If you look at some of the precinct chairs who contributed to Dems, some are pretty modest (giving money to an Independent running for Board of Education, or giving some cash to an old family friend). But I do agree that it is a little strange to see someone donating thousands and thousands of dollars to Ds across the board. Even so, you shouldn't necessarily have "loyalty oaths", but instead just replace that chairperson next election with someone who supports Republicans. Its an easy fix.