{"id":185643,"date":"2014-09-18T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/18\/kansas-supreme-court-slaps-down-kris-korbachs-election-shenanigans\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:34:00","slug":"kansas-supreme-court-slaps-down-kris-korbachs-election-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/18\/kansas-supreme-court-slaps-down-kris-korbachs-election-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Supreme Court Slaps Down Kris Korbach&#8217;s Election Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court ruled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/19\/us\/kansas-democrats-withdrawal-from-senate-race-is-upheld.html\">unanimously that Democrat Chad Taylor&#8217;s name has to be dropped from the ballot as he requested<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the Democratic candidate for Senate in his attempt to drop off the November ballot, creating a tougher contest for the Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, in a race with a strong independent candidate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But the Kansas secretary of state, Kris Kobach, a Republican who had fought the withdrawal, said afterward that Democrats would have to pick another candidate, adding to the uncertainty about whose names would appear on the ballot.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noticed the last bit?<\/p>\n<p>Where Korbach is now insisting that the Democrats will <b>have<\/b> to nominate a replacement, something he <b>never brought up<\/b> during arguments?<\/p>\n<p>I understand the electoral dynamics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The current polls show that Pat Roberts wins in a 3-way race,&nbsp; and gets demolished in a 2-way race, but this is not an excuse for the secretary of state to be so blatantly corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Here is hoping that Kris Korbach ends up like disgraced former Kansas AG <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phill_Kline\">Phill Kline<\/a>, who was disbarred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court ruled unanimously that Democrat Chad Taylor&#8217;s name has to be dropped from the ballot as he requested: The Kansas Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the Democratic candidate for Senate in his attempt to drop off the November ballot, creating a tougher contest for the Republican incumbent, Pat Roberts, in a race with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185643"}],"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=185643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}