{"id":178832,"date":"2018-08-09T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/09\/kris-kobach-is-a-honey-badger\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T23:05:00","slug":"kris-kobach-is-a-honey-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/09\/kris-kobach-is-a-honey-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Kobach is a Honey Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 346px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4r7wHMg5Yjg\" width=\"336\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It looks like Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article216299955.html\">will refuse to recuse himself for the too-close-to-call recount of his Republican primary election<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Wednesday that he has no plans to recuse himself from a recount process in the race for governor because any counting of ballots would take place at the county level. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recount thing is done on a county level, so the secretary of state does not actually participate directly in the recount,\u201d Kobach said at a campaign event in Topeka after initial results showed him winning by fewer than 200 votes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secretary of state\u2019s office merely serves as a coordinating entity overseeing it all but not actually counting the votes,\u201d Kobach said, contending that his role puts him at arm\u2019s length from the actual recount. <\/p>\n<p>No law requires Kobach to recuse himself, but legal and political experts said that he should do so to maintain trust in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Kobach, the state\u2019s top election official, led Gov. Jeff Colyer in the Republican primary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article216291520.html\">by a mere 191 votes Wednesday<\/a> morning after each of the state\u2019s 105 counties had posted election returns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article216290855.html\">after technical difficulties in Johnson County delayed results on election night.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Colyer has the right to request that Kobach\u2019s office initiate a recount if he remains trailing after counties tabulate provisional ballots and mail-in ballots postmarked by the deadline. <\/p>\n<p>He would also have to file a bond with Kobach\u2019s office to cover the cost of a recount at a price set by Kobach. If a candidate wins following a recount, no action would be taken on the bond. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if his opponent wants a recount, Kobach gets to set the price.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Dr. Evil moment, &#8220;I demand the sum&#8230; OF 1 MILLION DOLLARS.\u2026\u2026\u2026 ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is one seriously morally bankrupt, corrupt, bigoted, and shameless son of a bitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will refuse to recuse himself for the too-close-to-call recount of his Republican primary election: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Wednesday that he has no plans to recuse himself from a recount process in the race for governor because any counting of ballots would take &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,368,375,364],"class_list":["post-178832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}