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General Category => Politics => Topic started by: Patriot on May 08, 2012, 07:37:45 PM

Title: Kansas Republican politicians... take note
Post by: Patriot on May 08, 2012, 07:37:45 PM
From (of all places) MSNBC.  Pay attention Kansas establishment Republicans.  You're not immune.

Six-term Senate veteran Lugar defeated in Indiana primary

By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer

Updated at 8:50pm ET  Republican foreign policy elder statesman Sen. Richard Lugar, 80, first elected to the Senate in 1976, was defeated in the Indiana primary Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who was backed by conservatives ranging from the National Rifle Association to local Tea Party activists to the Washington-based fiscal conservative group the Club for Growth.

Mourdock appeared to be headed for a landslide victory.

With more than 70 percent of the precincts reporting, Mourdock was winning 60 percent of the vote...

Full story:  http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/08/11604125-six-term-senate-veteran-lugar-defeated-in-indiana-primary?lite
(http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/08/11604125-six-term-senate-veteran-lugar-defeated-in-indiana-primary?lite)
Title: Re: Kansas Republican politicians... take note
Post by: jarhead on May 08, 2012, 08:04:09 PM
One less RINO