{"id":3932,"date":"2009-12-31T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/rising-star-kansas-democrat-abrubtly-pulls-out-of-congressional-race\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:24:00","slug":"rising-star-kansas-democrat-abrubtly-pulls-out-of-congressional-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/rising-star-kansas-democrat-abrubtly-pulls-out-of-congressional-race.php","title":{"rendered":"Rising Star Kansas Democrat abrubtly pulls out of Congressional race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/SzzgmbY1OsI\/AAAAAAAAJCA\/KvdAq4-m0yY\/s1600-h\/lynn-jenkins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d885e_lynn-jenkins.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Was running to unseat popular \"Tea Party\" Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Democrat State Senator Laura Kelly has just announced that she will end her Congressional race for the seat of Republican incumbent Rep. Lynn Jenkins (photo).  <\/p><p>Reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/cjonline.com\/news\/state\/2009-12-31\/kelly_ending_us_house_bid\">Topeka Capitol-Journal<\/a> (via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.memeorandum.com\"> Memeo<\/a>):<\/p><blockquote><p>Kelly was a lock to win the Democratic nomination in the 2nd District, which includes Topeka, Manhattan, Lawrence and communities from the Oklahoma to Nebraska borders.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>(Topeka, and Lawrence the only two liberal areas in the State.)  <\/p><p>Continuing:<\/p><blockquote><p>She said demands of conducting the U.S. House campaign and responsibilities of being a member of the Senate were incompatible. The obligation to serve her constituents proved stronger than the desire to defeat Jenkins, she said.<\/p><p>\"I can't do this race and do the Senate,\" Kelly said.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Translation: She read some internal polls, and looked at the coming political climate - Tea Party movement, and generic Republican vs. Democrat numbers which now show the GOP ahead by 8, and concluded she couldn't win.  <\/p><p>Rep. Jenkins, is closely identified with the Tea Party movement, nationally and in Kansas.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d885e_7828681836623105417-1775566623097750159?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was running to unseat popular \"Tea Party\" Republican Rep. Lynn JenkinsFrom Eric Dondero:Democrat State Senator Laura Kelly has just announced that she will end her Congressional race for the seat of Republican incumbent Rep. Lynn Jenkins (photo). Reports the Topeka &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/rising-star-kansas-democrat-abrubtly-pulls-out-of-congressional-race.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}