TUESDAY. AUGUST 24, 2004
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Cheney to endorse Kansas GOP candidate
BY ANDY HYLAND
ahyland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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Vice President Dick Cheney will speak today at 9 a.m. in Overland Park to endorse Republican Kris Kobach for the 3rd district U.S. House of Representatives seat, according to Kobach's campaign manager.
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The breakfast meeting at Ritz Charles in Overland Park, however, won't be open to the public. It will be for donors and invited guests, Todd Abrajano, campaign manager, said.
Kobach is running against incumbent Democrat Dennis Moore for the only Kansas congressional seat held by a Democrat, a seat that represents Lawrence residents who live east of Iowa Street.
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Abrajano said that Kobach's campaign staff was excited about Cheney's visit. This is the second visit by a national Republican leader since Saturday when House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-III.) spoke.
"It means that Washington is taking us very seriously," Abrajano said. "They're bringing out all the important Washington leaders."
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Abrajano said Republican leaders had put this campaign "at the top of the list," because they saw Moore as a vulnerable target.
Paul Johnson, professor of political science at the University, said that the most important effect of the visit would be financial.
"It signifies to the donors that they think he can win,"he said, referring to the national Republican leadership.
"I don't think it influences voters very much, if at all," Johnson said.
Samantha Horner, Leawood senior, worked on Kobach's campaign this summer as a door-to-door canvasser. She also distributed fliers and lawn signs for the candidate.
She said she hoped the vice president's visit would help validate Kobach's candidacy because he won the Aug. 3 primary against Adam Taff by only 207 votes, who ran against Moore in 2002.
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"The Republican primary was so close," Horner said. "I hope
Taff supporters will get on Kobach's bandwagon and defeat Dennis Moore. Dick Cheney should help with that."
She said she thought the general election would be very close.
Josh Steward, Hays senior and vice-chairman of the KU College Republicans, said he thought that Cheney's visit would enhance Kobach's image.
"it think it will further establish Kobach's position as a real conservative," he said.
That would differentiate him from Taff, Steward said, because he is more moderate. Steward said he thought the Republican Party needed someone to stand up for conservative values.
up for contest He also thought Cheney would help Kobach's name recognition.
Vice president Dick Cheney waves to reporters after landing at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday. Cheney will speak at a breakfast for Kansas Republican 3rd District Congressional candidate Kris Kobach today in Overland Park.
"If you ask a random person in the 3rd district whether they've heard of Kris Kobach or Dennis Moore, they'll probably say Dennis Moore," Steward said. "Having a prominent name associated with Kobach will help get his name out there."
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BAN: Libraries question Kline's decision
Krug said. "Our concern is that we become a dumping ground," Krug said.
the CDs libraries received are remaindered and not sold in stores anymore. Krug said remaindered CDs often don't come in cases and sometimes the CD is broken. It is hard to sell back a product that is unusable, Krug said.
Krug said libraries were sometimes getting stuck with unusable CDs that libraries did not want. Kline's intent was admirable, Krug said, but his office did not bother to check with librarians and city boards to determine what was good for communities.
The two major problems with Kline's decision, Krug said, were that no librarians were involved in the decision and that the role of libraries in society is to provide choice and choice cannot be provided when music titles are being selected for them.
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are being trained. Louise Hanson, head of adult services for the Lawrence Public Library, said she found it interesting that the majority of the withdrawn CD titles were already in circulation in Kansas libraries. Some of the CD titles, or at least the artists, have already been deemed fit by librarians, Hanson said, so in a way Kline is saying that he does not approve of material we have already deemed appropriate.
Outkast's album, *Stankonia*, is an example of a CD on Kline's list that the Lawrence Public Library already has in its collection.
Kurttenhauer said.
"I think that what his office did is un-American," he said. "It is censorship in the strictest degree."
Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, said Kline's decision was censorship by a government official. Kline and his office made a determination of what the values of a certain group of people are, which the government can't do, Kurtenbach said.
Bruce Flanders, director of Lawrence Public Library, said
"I think that what his office did is un-American. It is censorship in the strictest degree."
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some of the CDs the library received would not be added to the library because some of them were already in the collection and some were multiple copies of the same CD. Flanders said he wished the libraries had been allowed to select the CDs.
-- Edited by Steve Vockrodt
STORMS: Dorm flooded
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After getting a glimpse of the storm outside and the puddles forming around the parking lot, some of the students didn't
While the sirens may have come as a surprise to those less familiar with Kansas' weather, others said it was no big deal. Starks said it was just another storm.
want to waste the opportunity to race for the puddles even when it was safe to go back upstairs.
"Being from Kansas," Starkis said, "we're all pros by now."
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