Kansas Revolt: Teabag Wing And Tim Huelskamp Lose Big
The Republican establishment fights back. The Kansas State Legislature lost 11 Tea Party types close to Governor Brownback, including the Senate Majority Leader.
A top Senate leader and at least 10 other conservative Kansas legislators lost their seats as moderate Republicans made Tuesday’s primary election a referendum on the state’s budget problems and education funding.
Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, of Nickerson, fell in his south-central Kansas district to Ed Berger, former president of Hutchinson Community College. Bruce’s defeat came amid a backlash against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and his allies that appeared to spell trouble for conservatives.
Five other conservative senators lost in races that spanned the state. So did five conservative House members, all of them from affluent Kansas City-area suburbs in Johnson County, the state’s most populous, where voters have cherished good public schools for decades.
Well isn't that special. Turns out you can go to far to the right even for Kansas Republicans, when your crazy costs comfortable conservatives their schools (meaning property values) and the state's credit rating.
And the US Congress can say good by to Tim Huelskamp, who had been a thorn in the side of John Boehner and others in the party, and paid the price for that last night.