Thoughts from Kansas (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Ned Ryun, the nepotistic son of Jim Ryun, a consarrrrrvative runner and formerrr Congressman lately marooned by his crew of Republican seadogs, needs a lesson in arrrrrrithmetic . Arrr nashnul debt be held by: Japan, China, the United Kingdom and Oil Exporting nations, in that order. You combine all four of those nations’ holdings and they have $1.577 trillion...
Blue Tide Rising (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
After last Labor Day we noted the absence of the the Kansas Republican Party at the Topeka Labor Day rally. Jim Ryun, however, couldn't be bothered to be on hand himself. This led one area Labor leader to publicly lament Ryun's parade entry as " an empty gesture, from an empty [House] seat. " This year was different. This time he didn't even bother to send an envoy. Neither did Lynn Jenkins. Nor was...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Mexico City, October 20, 1968. American star Jim Ryun arrived at the Mexico Olympics as the new 1,500 metres world record holder, having improved on Aussie Herb Elliot's mark of three minutes, 35.6 seconds by 2.5 seconds. But a bout of glandular fever and effects of the host city's high altitude meant the American would not be outright favourite for the Olympic title.
Blue Tide Rising (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Lynn Jenkins is already acting like a typical Washington D.C. insider by saying whatever is most politically expedient for the day's press cycle. In June she criticized Jim Ryun for counting on "his Washington, D.C. buddies" to "spend $120,000 distorting my record." At the time it sounded like she understood the value of homegrown grassroots democracy, and shared Nancy Boyda's concern that Washington...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
It has been 40 years since an American won a medal in the 1,500 meters at the Olympics, when Jim Ryun took silver in Mexico City.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Last Tuesday, State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins won a surprising upset over former Rep. Jim Ryun for the Republican nomination for Congress in an eastern Kansas district the GOP thinks it has a good chance of winning in November. It was a rare victory for a moderate candidate in a state in which the Republican Party has been notoriously divided, to their own political disadvantage, for more than a decade,...
www.nanepashemet.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
The Beijing Olympics start tonight. ~ As a former track athlete, this was always a huge highlight for me. ~ I remember ..... ~ Jim Ryun losing to Kip Keino in Mexico City in the 1500M. Dave Wottle with the stupid hat, coming from behind in the 800M, Dave Hemery, who became a coach at BU, winning the 400M hurdles, Joan Benoit Samuelson winning the Marathon, Frank Shorter doing the same with an imposter...
Blue Tide Rising (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
They say you can judge a person by the company the keep. If that's the case Lynn Jenkins revealed to Kansans her true colors yesterday at a partisan therapy session in the Statehouse. She stood squarely between Jim Ryun and Kris Kobach and declared the Kansas 2nd Congressional Distrist " is a Republican district, and I'm going to take it back for Republicans. " Apparently she's not motivated by the...
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
TOPEKA | Faster than Jim Ryun can run a mile, Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda and Republican state Treasurer Lynn Jenkins plunged into their contest for Congress on Thursday.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
TOPEKA | Faster than Jim Ryun can run a mile, Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda and Republican state Treasurer Lynn Jenkins plunged into their contest for Congress on Thursday.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A vote-counting mistake in Shawnee County could throw into doubt Lynn Jenkins’ victory over Jim Ryun in the Kansas 2nd District congressional primary.
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A vote-counting mistake in Shawnee County could throw into doubt Lynn Jenkins’ victory over Jim Ryun in the Kansas 2nd District congressional primary.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Congressional Primary Highlights Primary night in a few states, here's the big races: Kansas -- Former Rep. Jim Ryun, representing the right, narrowly loses to a moderate and doesn't get a rematch with Nancy Boyda, one of the three or so biggest upset winners in `06 (the [...]
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
CQPolitics.com - Late returns from Tuesday’s primary in Kansas’ 2nd Congressional District showed Republican state Treasurer Lynn Jenkins dashing former five-term Rep. Jim Ryun’s hopes for a rematch with Nancy Boyda, the Democrat who unseated him in the 2006 election. With just 1 precinct yet to report of the district’s 819, Jenkins held a 51 [...]
The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
KS Treas. Lynn Jenkins (R), trailing badly in much of the primary polling, stunned ex-Rep. Jim Ryun (R), defeating him by 1K votes, or 51-49%. Early on, the GOP contest was framed as a conservative (Ryun) versus moderate (Jenkins), but Jenkins attempted to morph that into an insider (Ryun) versus outsider (Jenkins) race. In ads, she touted her CPA background as a way to fix gov’t, and practically...
