Some called the fact that no women currently hold statewide office in Kansas a coincidence–Duh!
But the Star’s Dave Helling prefers the more conspiratorial explanation, namely that “a toxic political culture” has driven the weaker sex away. Confirms state rep Stephanie Clayton, “Politics has become nastier. A lot of women tend to want to avoid the slings and arrows that you get in the political world.”
Earth to Stephanie: Politics is no nastier than it has ever been, probably less.
Earth to Dave: If Kansas really has been an “incubator for female politicians,” perhaps the performance of that incubator’s most prominent recent grad, Kathleen Sebelius, has tainted the female “brand.”
In 2014, three women ran and lost for statewide office in Kansas.
Rich Steele is a citizen journalist and head of the NSAAS (Non-Smokers Against Anti-Smoking).
mars to mr steel plate head:
politics is at the lowest point ever in American history.
after 38 years of politics I’ve essentially given up. The hatred…the
retribution…the name calling….the disgusting rhetoric has hurt our
nation.
How about Obama? has he not received worse reaction than any
other prez inhistory….
steele….go back to wherever you came from because you are nothing
but a meat head.
checkthe polls you fruitcake…then get back to me at law4life1000@YAHOO.COM
…YOU WILL BE WHITTLED DOWN TO A CRYING BABY WHEN KCC IS
DONE WITH YOUR B.S.
Put down the bottle and step away from the bar.
hEARNE….where did youget this fruitcake? the kkk rally with chuckles?.
at the whispers night club slinking around to get into the vip room
and hang with glaze?
this guy is 100%^ kook….and makes a statement without any
facts to backup his 3rd grade rhetoric.
send him back to lansing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me get this straight, Harley…
You’re calling somebody else a “100 percent kook”?
Steele, you slanted SJW fuck, you can’t shove misogyny down our throats if no women have the balls (oops, another sexist pejorative) to run for public office. This is all part of the Czar’s smear campaign to discredit the second round of the Brownback administration.
Isn’t Kansas still a democracy? The electorate have spoken many times that they want to continue having officials who could give a fuck about teachers, etc. So in other words, blame the voters and not the administration. They voted for this shit, and get what they deserve.
And the whole editorial implies that if a woman was elected to a high political office in Kansas, things would turn around. That’s totally fallacious.
i like him so far. short, satiric, to the point and with proper spelling and grammar, too.
What’ll they think of next, mike t?
… the Star misses the good old days when Kitty Kat was hosting abortion benefits at the Governor’s Mansion and Tiller was killing babies as they were being born.
Brings a tear to my eyes.
How can you think politics isn’t nastier? With all of the media outlets spewing blame and hate about the other side, politics has never been more toxic.