Q. What’s Wrong With Kansas? A. Gruppenfuehrer Kris Kobach

Calling Kansas state Republican chairman Kris Kobach a neo-con and a Gruppenfuehrer seems so immature. But a Kansas City Star writer calls him a Stalinist and many Kansas Republicans agree. Kobach is a Professor of Law at the Univ. of Mo. at Kansas City. But similar to Kommander Guy, he seems to think the Constitution is a goddamn piece of paper. Kobach had the brilliant neo-con idea to form a party "Loyalty Committee".

Burned by several high-profile party switchers, the Kansas Republican Party has formed a loyalty committee to make sure Republican officials toe the GOP line…

The change was approved at the mid-year GOP convention Saturday. The loyalty committee will be headed by State Republican Party Chairman Kris Kobach, who sought the change. Although the dominant party in Kansas, the Republican Party is split between conservatives and moderates. Kobach is a conservative. The party divide is often over abortion, with conservatives opposing abortion while moderates support abortion rights. Andy Wollen, chairman of the Kansas Traditional Republican Party, said the loyalty committee was a bad idea. "I don’t know whether to laugh or cry," Wollen said. "It’s just the latest demonstration that these people just flat don’t understand people," he said.

At least 17 R-committee persons (who are elected in their precincts) have been purged by Herr Gruppenfuehrer. Kobach sent a FedEx letter to Republican Committee woman Jean Goodman, purging her from the Party because of a "Dennis Moore" sign in her yard. Moore is a blue dog Democratic Congress kritter from Johnson County, who keeps being elected with a lot of votes from Republicans.

Although heavily Republican, Johnson County has lots of "moderates". Many couples will have one spouse register as an R and the other as a D just to keep both parties reasonably honest. Goodman says the Moore sign was put up by her husband. Creepy R’s have been stealing my yard signs for years, including my Obama sign this election, but that is another story. One sign stealer lost HIS election, after he was caught on the video by his opponent. Mike Hendricks of the KC Star got to talk to Comrade Kobach.

Welcome to Kansas GOP’s version of Stalin’s purges
By MIKE HENDRICKS
The Kansas City Star

The presumption of innocence might be the foundation of American jurisprudence. But you’re guilty until proved innocent in today’s Kansas Republican Party. That’s what Johnson County GOP committeewoman Jean Goodman learned Monday when she got a FedEx letter from state party headquarters. “A complaint has been filed against you based on the attached information,” it said. According to the party’s new Loyalty Committee — yes, comrades, they actually call it that — Goodman had brought into question her allegiance to Mother GOP.

To wit, her husband had put a sign in their Lenexa front yard supporting Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore. This, she knew, might bring trouble.
“But he said ‘It’s my sign.’ ” And she had to agree that he didn’t lose his First Amendment rights just because of her position in the Republican Party. However, she never got the chance to explain those circumstances before the Loyalty Committee, which passed judgment without giving her so much as a phone call. “It’s like a kangaroo court,” said Republican state Rep. Pat Colloton of Leawood. “It’s a star chamber.”

Yet it’s how they do things in the Kansas Republican Party of Chairman Kris Kobach, who ought to know better. The guy teaches constitutional law, after all. But when I got him on the phone, Kobach didn’t apologize for trying to purge the party of suspected turncoats in leadership positions. He agreed that Goodman probably shouldn’t be considered one of them because of her husband’s sign.

“That would certainly exonerate the person,” he told me after hearing her explanation. However, he had little sympathy for the 16 other GOP committee members stripped of their party voting rights in Johnson County this week. In most cases, he said, there was clear evidence that they’d given money to Democrats or made some kind of public statement of support. “If you’re an average Republican voter who sends money to Democratic candidates, then, hey, you’re free to do what you want,” he said. “But if you’re a leader in the party, you shouldn’t be publicly helping the other team.”

Kobach is busy, busy, but he learned a lot while working at DOJ as loyal Bushie, such things as VOTER CAGING.

In an e-mail message sent to state Republicans, Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kris Kobach reviewed the party’s accomplishments this year. In the message, he states: "To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years." Mike Gaughan, executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party, said, "Vote caging is a pretty direct form of voter suppression."

One form of vote caging is when a political party sends registered mail to an address of a registered voter. If the mail is returned as undeliverable, the voter will be challenged by the party as having a fraudulent voter registration. In the past, there have been reported incidents of caging lists targeting predominantly minority districts that tend to vote for Democrats…

But Christian Morgan, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, denied the party was doing what Gaughan described. "It’s just a term of art," Morgan said of caging voters. He said what the party has done is try to identify voters and their views on certain issues. "We cage that person’s information," he said.

Kobach was elected GOP state chairman in 2007. He stated that he would run the party the way Gonzales ran the Department of Justice.

Kobach told committee members the party needed "dramatic reforms" and promised to run the party like "a campaign that is always going and never stops." And he also said, "A party leader should never prostitute himself or his views merely in the quest for personal power, and I stand by that statement."

Kobach is not a prostitute, but rather I would call him a cheap whore.