A majority of Kansas GOP primary voters did not vote for Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) on Tuesday despite the heavy institutional support he received from Washington’s GOP establishment. But Roberts held off Tea Party challenger Milton Wolf by seven points
If you want to truly understand politics, especially of the Right-leaning variety, you’ll have to look beyond the dumbed-down, self-congratulatory so called journalism of Beltway establishment publications like Politico. Here is their headline out of Kansas: How Pat Roberts beat
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) held off primary challenger Milton Wolf on Tuesday, leaving the Tea Party with only one more chance this election cycle to defeat a Senate incumbent. If Joe Carr does not oust Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) on Thursday,
A highly energized Dr. Milton Wolf told Breitbart’s Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that he and his campaign are “having a ball here in Kansas, and it looks like we have a senate race on our hands.” According to the
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) has pushed legislation that his son has lobbied for as a paid lobbyist, Breitbart News has learned. Back in 2002, David Roberts–Sen. Roberts’ son–lobbied for Kansas State University at the lobbying firm Van Scoyoc Associates, Inc.,
Fending off persistent questions about his residency status, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) noted in a radio interview last week that “my kids went to school” in Dodge City, Kansas, as a means of demonstrating his ties to the state he
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) told Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) that he may be the next victim of the anti-incumbent Tea Party mood sweeping America with the defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier this year, Politico’s Manu Raju reports.
In an interview that aired on Kansas City’s KCMO 710 AM/103.7 FM last week, Sen. Pat Roberts fielded questions about his reelection with host Greg Knapp, which included queries about a debate with the three other candidates vying for the
At the eleven minute mark of this 15 minute interview, Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is reduced to a stumbling, bumbling pile of a 47 years in Washington incumbent who can’t manage to coherently explain why he doesn’t actually live in
JACKSON, Mississippi — Dr. Milton Wolf, the conservative primary challenger to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), is calling on Roberts to publicly denounce his U.S. Senate colleague, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), for bringing his executive assistant, Kay Webber, on 33 taxpayer-funded
As Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) prepares for re-election, a report out of the Senate finds that he visited his home state less than 100 days in the last two years, spending the rest of his time in Washington, D.C. A
The Tea Party Express “Fighting For Liberty” tour rolled into Wichita, late Sunday afternoon and Olathe Monday morning, to rally conservative troops for the 2014 elections. There was a crowd of about 250 people in attendance at the Wichita rally
The nation’s largest Tea Party political action committee, Tea Party Express, recently revved up for its ninth national bus tour, dubbed “Fighting for Liberty.” The tour began in Fort Myers, Florida on Saturday, April 19th and is heading west with stops in Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Kathleen Sebelius, who resigned last week as President Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary, will not challenge Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) for a Senate seat this year. “Secretary Sebelius is continuing her important work at H.H.S. and is not
As incredible as it may seem after the horribly glitch-ridden ObamaCare rollout, outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is reportedly mulling a run for the Senate in Kansas. Sebelius would face off against Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) who
President Barack Obama’s embattled former Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius is reportedly considering a Kansas Senate run against friend-turned-critic Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS). The trial balloon for a possible Sebelius candidacy was received skeptically, as both
While Common Core may have started as a state-led effort, the Obama Administration has seized on it as a federal goal and is using federal funds to coerce states into implementing Common Core. The administration has handed out stimulus
Dr. Milton Wolf, the Republican senate candidate who is challenging Sen. Pat Roberts in the Kansas GOP primary, apologized again for joking about patients’ X-Rays he posted on Facebook but explained that his black humor about gunshot victims was an
The ad opens with a photograph of Sen. Pat Roberts’ home in Alexandria, Virginia and proceeds to a La-Z-Boy recliner in Kansas it says he rents “at a donor’s house. On a golf course.” “Pat Roberts doesn’t live in Kansas,”
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) claims the New York Times is wrong in a Friday report which alleges he does not currently have a residence in the state of Kansas, which may endanger his eligibility to run for reelection. Roberts
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced the Learning Opportunities Created At the Local (LOCAL) Level Act, which would stop the federal government from forcing education standards on the states with
Milton Wolf, best known as Obama’s cousin (or second cousin twice removed), has been on the Kansas Senate campaign trail for only three months and is already gaining support from conservative groups within the state for his August 5 primary
Dr. Milton Wolf, candidate for U.S. Senate challenging incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) for the GOP’s nomination for the 2014 U.S. Senate race, offered the “family response” to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. Transcript as
Sen. Pat Roberts to Kathleen Sebelius at today’s Senate Finance Committee hearing.
Career politicians are a curious breed. They are the only species known to man that creates grand catastrophes and then expects praise for quietly slinking away and pretending it was someone else’s mess all along. This month, Kansas Senator Pat
Breitbart News has learned that the Facebook page for the re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) saw an early October spike in support from youths in Istanbul, Turkey. According to public analytics on Roberts’ Facebook page revealing statistics
To fully understand the state of play in the Republican party, look no further than Sens. Mike Enzi (WY) and Pat Roberts (KS). Both are reliable, mainstream conservatives, yet neither have a record of seeking a fight or standing on
Sen. John McCain, posing as someone above the fray as Tea Party conservatives and establishment Republicans do battle with each other, had the brazen gall to say that he has learned to “never get personal” in political disputes. He claimed
President Barack Obama’s second cousin once removed is thinking about mounting a primary challenge to Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS). According to Politico, Milton Wolf “has been gauging support” and sending emails to GOP activists “asking them to get in touch if they
FreedomWorks has been working with conservative activists in their home states this August to have them question senators about their objections to Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) letter vowing to vote against bills that fund ObamaCare. That letter was stuck at 13 signers but
Conservative Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley, Jeff Sessions, and Pat Roberts on Wednesday pressured their Republican colleagues in the “Gang of Eight” pursuing immigration reform to explain, in detail, how their forthcoming proposals will impact entitlement and welfare programs. Grassley, Sessions,
Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Pat Roberts (R-KS) sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano demanding answers regarding the administration’s soft treatment of immigrants likely
Move over ladies, the left has discovered a new bloc to exploit for votes. While I originally mistook Molly Ball’s piece lamenting the GOP’s “War on caterpillars” for an Onion piece, that it is apparently a serious piece and housed
Senator Jon Kyl and a group of Senators – including Sens. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) have introduced critical legislation that seeks to protect the doctor and patient relationship
Politico: “The more he [President Obama] talked [with Senate Republicans in a closed-door meeting Tuesday], the more he got upset,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said. “He needs to take a valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans and
Yesterday, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee torpedoed efforts to require Mediciad applicants to show IDs. We noted that, with fraud running at around $100 billion in Medicaid and Medicare, this might not have been the wisest vote. Well, it
You need an ID to board an airplane, cash a check, use a credit card and, even, enter many downtown office building. However, you don’t need an ID to apply for Medicaid and potentially receive thousands of dollars in government