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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
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Senate candidate sues Secretary of State
U. S. Senate candidate Chad Taylor filed a lawsuit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach with the Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday to be removed from the Nov. 4 ballot.
Last week, Kobach announced Taylor would remain on the ballot because of KSA 20-306(b), a Kansas law stating that candidates who wish to withdraw must state they would be incapable of fulfilling the requirements of the job.
Kobach refused to remove Taylor from the ballot because he said he believes Taylor's letter didn't fulfill this requirement.
Taylor's petition, however, says his withdrawal was "timely, lawful and unequivocal."
Kelly Arnold, chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, said the Democratic Party will have to replace Taylor on the ballot within 10 days if he is allowed to withdraw.
Stay tuned to Kansan.com for more details.
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Dissident Republican group backs Democrat in Kansas
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A group of moderate former Republican state legislators Tuesday endorsed the Democratic nominee in the sprawling and heavily GOP 1st Congressional District of Kansas over conservative incumbent Tim Huelskamp.
Democrat Jim Sherow, a 63-year-old Kansas State University history professor and former Manhattan mayor, had a Statehouse news conference to tout his backing from Traditional Republicans for Common Sense. Sherow served six years on the nonpartisan Manhattan City Commission and said he worked with local Republicans then.
"People in this district want practical results." Sherow said.
practical results, shrewd said. Huelkskap spokesman Mark Kelly dimissed the news conference as "political theater" and said the congressman was busy Tuesday in Washington, working on issues such as resisting new federal water regulations.
lowing conflicts with Speaker John Boehner.
"Congressman Huelskamp believes the people of the 1st District will re-elect him based on his record of working for them and standing with their values," Kelly said in a statement.
The moderate GOP group said it opposes Huelskamp partly because he was stripped of Kansas' nearly automatic seat on the Agriculture Committee in December 2012 fol-
Huelskamp, a tea party favorite, has said he's willing to buck party leaders to represent his largely rural district, which covers more than 60 counties, mostly in western and central Kansas. He is seeking his third, two-year term.
"People in this district want practical results."
JIM SHEROW Kansas State University history professor, former Manhattan mayor
He remains favored to win re-election Nov. 4 because 53 percent of the district's 409,000 registered voters are Republicans, and only 19 percent are Democrats.
The moderate GOP group was formed in 2012 by ex-legislators upset with the Kansas GOP's shift to the right. It also endorsed independent candidate Greg Orman in the U.S. Senate race, and many of its members are backing Democrat Paul Davis in the governor's race over incumbent Sam Brownback.
But its chairman, former state Rep. Jim Yonally, of Overland Park, said the group expects to endorse Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt's re-election.
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TABLING: ROUND TWO
Sophomore Austin Canady and graduate student Michael Walker table for Grow KU in front of Watson Library on Tuesday. Student Senate re-elections were held Tuesday and continue today in the wake of the disqualification of the Jayhawkers coalition last spring.
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