Kansas

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Kansas, the 'sunflower state', became the 39th state on Jan. 29, 1861. Topeka is the capital of Kansas, while its largest city is Wichita.

At the time of settlement Kansas could be seen in some ways as a bastion of liberal ideals.

Many of the sttlers came from New England.

Many were against slavery.

And many didn't mind the idea of women working.

Then something changed.

Kansas has not supported a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. In 2004, George W. Bush won the state's 6 electoral votes by a margin of 25 percentage points with 62% of the vote. The only two counties to support Democrat John Kerry were those containing the city of Kansas City and the college town of Lawrence.

In 1999, the Kansas State Board of Education made that infamous decision to eliminate the theory of evolution from the state teaching standards, a decision later reversed. On November 8, 2005, a The Kansas State Board of Education, at the urging of intelligent design advocates, voted to add criticisms of evolution to the state science standards.

While other states outside the South are raising their state minimum wages above the Federal minimum wage of $5,15 an hour, Kansas for some reason continues to set a state minimum wage lower than the Federal minimum. See U.S. Dept. of Labor Map

It is possible that in the near future Kansas will become the wind turbine capital of the world and solar panels will adorne every roof in the state.

But right now that process is just starting.

Contents 1 Kansas Congressional Delegation 2 State Government 3 Kansas Boards and Commissions 4 Cities & Counties 5 Elections 6 Electorate 7 Past Election Electorate Turnout 8 News, Etc 9 Political Blogs 10 Kansas in Fiction 11 See also

Kansas Congressional Delegation

• Senate
  • Senator: Pat Roberts (R)
  • Senator: Sam Brownback (R)

• House of Representatives
  • KS-01 Rep.: Jerry Moran (R)
  • KS-02 Rep.: Nancy Boyda (D)
  • KS-03 Rep.: Dennis Moore (D)
  • KS-04 Rep.: Todd Tiahrt (R)

• US Congressional Delegations from Kansas (Wikipedia)

State Government

• Executive Branch
  • Governor: Kathleen Sebelius (D)
  • Lt.Gov: Mark Parkinson (D)
  • Secretary of State: Ron Thornburgh (R)
  • Treasurer : Lynn Jenkins (R)
  • Attorney General: Stephen Six (D)
  • Insurance Commissioner: Sandy Praeger (R)

• Legislative Branch
  • Kansas State Legislature

• Judicial Branch
  • Judiciary

• State Constitution
  • Kansas State Constitution

Kansas Boards and Commissions

• Kansas State Board of Education

Cities & Counties

• Kansas County Selection Map (U.S. Census)
• Kansas Counties (National Association of Counties}
• Kansas Counties (Kansas State Library)
• Visit a Kansas County (Kansas Association of Counties)
• Kansas Communities on the Web (State of Kansas)

Elections

• Elections and Legislative (Kansas Secretary of State)
• Election statistics (Kansas Secretary of State)
• 2008 Elections
  • Kansas elections, 2008
• 2006 Elections
  • no Kansas U.S. Senate election in 2006.
  • Kansas U.S. House election, 2006
  • Kansas gubernatorial election, 2006
  • Kansas State Board of Education election, 2006
• Kansas election results
• see U.S. elections

Electorate

Registered Voters: Registered Republicans: Registered Democrats: Registered Independents: Registered Libertarian: Registered Reform:

1,615,699 742,903 441,269 420,261 9,416 1,850

Past Election Electorate Turnout

2002 Election: 2000 Election:

851,966 1,092,716

52.7% 67.3%

News, Etc

• Kansas Newspapers (NewsLink.org)
• Kansas Newspapers and News Media Guide(ABYZ News Links)
• Kansas Politicians On The Issues (OnTheIssues.org)

Political Blogs

• The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog
• Hope and Politics
• The Idiot Factor: Todd Tiahrt's folly
• Nitpicker
• Red State Rabble
• Thoughts from Kansas
• Boyda Bloc: The Pro- Nancy Boyda Blog

Kansas in Fiction

• Reference to Kansas in the future as a desert because of global warming: Gregory Benford's 2004 novel The Sunborn, p. 85.

See also