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7 Jan, 7 tweets, 4 min read
I'm going to some up the KC area congressional news from an awful 24 hours. As the Capitol descended into chaos, @HawleyMO sent a fundraising plea based on his election objection kansascity.com/news/politics-…
.@repcleaver, Missouri's senior Dem, describes his experience sheltering in place and decries the attacks on Black voters that led up to yesterday's riot kansascity.com/news/politics-…
.@CoriBush and @RepDavids are calling for Trump's immediate removal office with days left in his presidency for inciting the riot kansascity.com/news/politics-…
But Trump still has plenty of defenders in Missouri, including @GovParsonMO kansascity.com/news/politics-…
After lawmakers regained control of the Capitol, @HawleyMO and @RogerMarshallMD were two of a handful of senators to back the objections in the riot's aftermath. However, the bulk of the region's House delegation supported kansascity.com/news/politics-…
And in the early am Thursday, Kansas GOP @RepLaTurner's office announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 after he participated in the vote on Arizona's electors kansascity.com/news/politics-…
I meant sum up* IT was a long day. And I didn't sleep very well. Apologies for the typo.

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7 Jan
.@HawleyMO speaking now. His voice shaking, says he wants to thank Capitol Police and law enforcement all throughout the country.
Hawley still defending his plan to object. "This is the place where those objections are to be heard.... without violence, without bullets."
Hawley again claiming that PA Constitution restricts mail-in balloting. Again, PA has allowed absentee voting for decades (I've used it!), but the GOP legislature expanded it last year.
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6 Jan
For KC area, Blunt will also lose Rules chairmanship to Klobuchar and Moran will lose Veterans Affairs chairmanship to Tester if the expected Dem victories in GA hold. Roberts’ retirement already meant the loss of his Ag chairmanship this Congress.
Blunt and Moran also each chaired an Appropriations subcommittee. Blunt’s has been particularly important because it oversees public health funding.
One thing this probably means for Klobuchar is she and Lankford can finally move their bipartisan election security bill (which McConnell opposed) out of cmte and onto the floor google.com/amp/s/amp.kans…
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5 Jan
Cleaver, the first African American mayor of KC, and Davids, one of the first Native American women in Congress, say they're hoping to boost confidence in vaccine-- Davids notes particularly with communities of color. Their comments in the thread below.
Related to that, @UMKC is partnering with predominantly Black churches in KC to work on increasing testing and vaccine distribution. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
This @AP story from a few days ago looks at the challenges with vaccine distribution with Native communites apnews.com/article/us-new…
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5 Aug 20
Watkins had one of the strangest careers of any Kansas politician. Emerged from obscurity to narrowly a district, battled rumors he was resigned and then went down for an easily avoidable and self-inflicted scandal. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
Full history will take a lot of tweets, but here I go. Watkins met with Democrats before he decided to run as a Republican. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
When he decided to run as a Republican it was as a Trump-style Republican saying "Drain the swamp." But he didn't actually vote in the 2016 election. Or any election before running for Congress. mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
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8 Jul 19
On record comment from @NRSC spokeswoman on Kobach: “Just last year Kris Kobach ran and lost to a Democrat. Now, he wants to do the same and simultaneously put President Trump’s presidency and Senate Majority at risk." kansascity.com/news/politics-… #ksleg #kssen
I'm a little overstuffed with quotes from Republicans criticizing Kobach as a candidate, but Sam Brownback's former chief of staff David Kensinger sent me this one about his fellow Kansas Republican: "L-O-S-E-R." #ksleg #kssen
Kensinger's antipathy toward Kobach post-2018 is well-documented kansascity.com/news/politics-…
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