Kansas GOP yanks voting rights of leaders who contributed to Democrats(Laying down 'loyalty plank')

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Kansas City Star

The Kansas Republican Party has suspended party voting privileges for 17 precinct leaders in Johnson County who gave donations to Democrats running for public office this year.

The loss of those votes could have an impact on the election tonight of a new Johnson County party chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer. Only precinct committeemen and committeewomen elected in the August Republican primary are eligible to vote. The election is scheduled for Blue Valley Northwest High School.

Two slates of candidates — one supported by moderates and the other by conservatives — are expected to be offered tonight. More than 600 GOP precinct leaders will be eligible to vote. Conservatives and moderates have about the same number of precinct positions.

State party officials, led by Republican Chairman Kris Kobach, approved a loyalty plank in the party’s constitution last year: Anyone holding a party position who donated money to a Democrat would forfeit his or her voting rights. This is the first election in which the provision has been enforced.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/895233.html

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I am aware this should probably be posted in the Kansas 'state' forum...but honestly, it is just so frightful how the cons chose to define liberty, I felt compelled to post it here.

[TheWraith]

1. And you have to wear the arm bands, too.

Ugh.

[nichomachus]

2. Cool -- they're pulling themselves further out of the mainstream

That always helps.

[SharonAnn]

17. Oh, I thought we were "post-partisan" now

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Hey. Maybe we ought to do that. Are you listening Joe? nt

[Changenow]

4. Somewhere between this and rewarding Lieberman is

sanity.

[fascisthunter]

5. Oh My... their costumes have fallen off and now we see the naked truth America

these so called God loving right wing religious freaks are nothing but a bunch of nazis.

[ben_meyers]

6. Didn't some guy in California lose his job over

his political contributions just recently? A theater director or something I heard. Damned rethugs.

[Ecumenist]

15. The guy who lost his job had donated to Prop 8 and he was the director

of the Music Circus, the musical theater company here in Sacramento.

[hangman86]

7. Ugh! Second crazy-ass wingnut story out of Kansas today

First a religious leader with a sign that says Obama is a Muslim, and now this. What's going on over there guys?

[underpants]

8. The Kansas GOP has gone evil more bat-sh*t-crazy than the Va. GOP

In Virginia there are in the midst of an all out civil war (dying down a bit now) in which the CONservatives are just convinced that the Moderates are betraying the cause

I have read several stories about the fundie (WAAAAAY out there fundies) take over in Kansas.

[L0oniX]

9. Can you say partisan? It's not over. The partisan war will go on ...you can bet on it.

[tblue37]

10. Kansas has three parties--Dems, Rethugs, and moderate Republicans.

The Republican moderates are being pushed out of the party by the RWers. Some have switched to the Dem Party as a result. One ran against Phill Kline and defeated him for the Kansas AG position two years ago. (But then he ended up being taken down because of a sex xcandal he was involved in when he was stll a Republican--an affair and a sexual harassment lawsuit.) Our Lieutenant Gov. is also a former Republican. He switched parties to run on Kathleen Sebelius's ticket.

Eventually the KS Republcian Party will destroy itself by driving all of its moderates out and into the arms of the Democrats. It will take a while, but it is happening.

[JJ]

11. Great for our side.

Next I hope they decide that Mooselini wasn't batshit fundie conservative enough.

[truthisfreedom]

12. This party loyalty thing is going to kill the GOP once and for all. Who wants to be part of a bunch

of Nazis? At least Obama's got that right.

[tanyev]

13. Ya'll go right ahead and loyalty yourselves into oblivion.

[msongs]

14. omg evil BLACKLIST...oh this not about yes on prop 8 lol nt

[TankLV]

16. The official name of the state is not "Fucking Kansas" for nothing..,

Even Kansas City is ashamed of Kansas and is actually in Missouri!

[LynnTheDem]

18. Well that shows perfectly clearly exactly who and what the Republic Party is.

PARTY UBER ALLES!

[Wabbajack_]

19. What's the prob?

If a Democratic "precinct leaders" gave money to the Repukes I'd advocate punishment for them.

[MaineDem]

20. I totally agree with you

In fact, here in Maine our Party removed two members of its Executive Committee because they collected signatures to put an Independent on the ballot against a Democrat for US Senate.

One main purpose of the state party is to elect Democrats. If members of leadership work contrary to that goal they don't deserve to have those positions.