Kansas Republican Party

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The Kansas Republican Party is the Kansas organization of the national Republican Party. One Republican U.S. President, Dwight Eisenhower and two Republican presidential nominees, Alf Landon and Robert Dole, came from Kansas.

The current Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party is Kris Kobach.

The current Executive Director is African-American Evangelical minister Ron Freeman.

The Kansas Republican Party is known for its long-running feud between a socially moderate (or "mainstream") faction and a socially conservative faction. This in-party fighting was epitomized by the defeat of conservative attorney general Phill Kline in 2006 by moderate-Republican-turned-Democrat Paul Morrison. Two of the Republicans in the state's delegation to the U.S. House and Senate are members of the conservative faction--Senator Sam Brownback and 4th District Congressman Todd Tiahrt. The other two Republicans, Senator Pat Roberts and 1st District Congressman Jerry Moran, are not identified with either faction despite largely conservative voting records.

Many members of the moderate faction would be Democrats in other states, and a significant number of Kansas Democrats are former members of the moderate Republican faction. It is often said that there are three parties in Kansas--the Democrats, the moderate Republicans and the conservative Republicans.

[edit] See also

Kansas Democratic Party

[edit] Further reading

Thomas Dye (1997): Politics in States and Communities, 9th Ed. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-258708-4.
Thomas Frank (2004): What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 0-8050-7339-6.