Graves Heading Home To Support Moderates
Associated Press - Thu 11:25 AM 07/12/2012
Stops planned in Johnson County, Wichita and Salina
Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves is heading back to Kansas to help his fellow moderate Republicans keep their seats in the state Senate.
Graves will make stops in Johnson County, Wichita and Salina next week.
The visits come as current Gov. Sam Brownback has started endorsing more conservative Republicans as the two sides wage a battle for control of the Senate. Brownback's agenda has largely won over the House, but skeptics in the Senate have blocked him on such issues as labor law, pickingjudges and education finance reform.
Graves, a Salina native and 1976 graduate of Kansas Wesleyan University, was the 43rd Governor of Kansas, serving from 1995-2003. He has also served as the Kansas Secretary of State and is currently the president of the American Trucking Association. He resides in Virginia with his family.
The state director for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity says Graves represents the old guard that doesn't believe in limited government.
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Associated Press information from: The Kansas City Star
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Indy452
Thursday 12 July 2012 12:33 Report this comment
Mr "Stack them high and tight" Ohhh boy can't wait to hear what this sit there do nothing former governor has to say....
SalinaSenior
Thursday 12 July 2012 13:10 Report this comment
I wish they were more republicans without juvenile political views. They are going extinct in this state. Most of them are so far to the right that they bordering on lunacy.
SalinaSenior
Thursday 12 July 2012 13:10 Report this comment
^there
GETALIFE674
Thursday 12 July 2012 13:15 Report this comment
Graves needs to stay where he is nothing he can say or do will change anything.
grnthums
Thursday 12 July 2012 13:18 Report this comment
Here come the "Nattering nabobs of negativism" barking about everything. Time for progressives to hold congress and the country hostage to get their way. Don't pay the ransom? Let sequester activate in January. Fiscal austerity with across the board budget cuts and tax increases followed by another recession. Fiscally conservative.
ksfarmdude
Thursday 12 July 2012 15:56 Report this comment
sure won't make any difference what he says he's a carreer politian now
localyokel
Friday 13 July 2012 11:22 Report this comment
I don't understand the headline. He's heading "home" to Virginia to support Kansas candidates? Or maybe Colorado?
t-bone
Friday 13 July 2012 13:12 Report this comment
looks like a dissatisfied viagra user