Kansas Republican Party Conspiracy
Channel: Brain Wired Media
Date: 2023-02-12

After weeks of fighting among themselves that mirrored party divisions across the country, Republicans narrowly chose an activist who has spread false theories about elections and promised to shake things up to lead the Kansas GOP for the next two years.

Within 30 minutes of the Kansas Republican Party's new leader taking over, the state committee looked at a motion asking the U.S. House to impeach President Joe Biden for "tyranny" because of his and his staff's comments in the summer of 2021 criticizing GOP misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.

The decision was put off.

Mike Brown, a GOP activist in Kansas City, was chosen to be state committee chair until the elections in 2024. Three months earlier, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly barely won another term, while U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids easily won another term in her Kansas City-area district.

Mike Kuckelman, who is leaving his position as chair of the Kansas Republican Party, and two other RNC members voted for Ronna McDaniel's reelection last month.

Mike Kuckelman, who is leaving his position as chair of the Kansas Republican Party, and two other RNC members voted for Ronna McDaniel's reelection last month.

In December, Brown asked McDaniel to step down, and on Saturday, he said that COVID-19 epidemic limits are causing a "uprising" in the national GOP.

Brown lost the Republican nomination for Kansas Secretary of State last year. Both he and his opponent, Helen Van Etten, a Topeka activist and former member of the RNC, said they would bring new life to the Kansas party.

Brown asked Republicans whether they were happy with Kelly's two terms as governor and Davids' win.

Brown won the vote 90-88, even though the GOP did a shockingly bad job in the midterm elections of 2022, when it lost House seats and failed to get a majority in the Senate back.

In Kansas, Republicans have more people sign up to vote than Democrats do. This means that Democrats win important elections by appealing to moderate Republicans and independent voters, while Republicans win when their party is united.

Rep. Patrick Penn, a Republican from Wichita, told GOP committee members, "We need to work together more." "That's the main point."

Some Republicans said that the race between Brown and Van Etten was a clash between people who don't like the establishment and people who do.

Johnson County, which has the most people and is home to Brown and State Chair Mike Kuckelman before he steps down, was the most divided before Saturday's vote. Since 2018, the rich suburbs of the county have become more Democratic, which has helped Kelly and Davids win.

The new chair of the Johnson County GOP is a Brown supporter who is worried about "purple creep." He told members of the GOP state committee that Brown thought Kuckelman was "absolutely disgusting." Kuckelman sent back several emails saying that Brown was weak on abortion and gun rights.

McDaniel was chosen by former President Donald Trump in 2016, despite objections from the Republican National Committee's "Make America Great Again" wing.

Two Michigan GOP candidates who didn't want President Joe Biden to run for president in 2020 were running for party offices before the convention next weekend.

Last year, when a Trump-backed governor lost his race for governor, Republicans in Nebraska kicked out the state chair during a tense convention.

Brown has agreed with Trump's unproven claims that the 2020 election for president was stolen. He was a builder who lost his seat on the Johnson County Commission in 2020.

Scott Schwab, who fought for fair elections in Kansas, beat Brown in the Republican primary for secretary of state.

From 2008 to 2020, Van Etten, a retired audiologist, was a member of the RNC. She was also on Kansas's board for higher education.

She told people on the state committee that "We'll bring the party together through a "very active" local party organization program.

Michael Austin, an economist, researcher, and consultant who is conservative and lives in Kansas City, said, "We need experience. Need people."

At the state committee meeting, Kuckelman spoke up for the current party leaders and said that the party has no debt.

Kim Borchers, a longtime activist in Topeka and a member of the RNC, praised McDaniel and criticized the criticism from the party establishment. She spoke in front of state committee members who had been in their jobs for more than five years.

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