The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

Senator Sam Brownback’s close friend and founder of the National Center for Fathering Ken Canfield officially entered the Governor’s race yesterday at a press conference held in an elementary school. After spouting platitudes about increased school funding and lower taxes, he admitted that he didn’t really know what he was talking about:

Pressed for specifics on how he was going to balance his stated goals of better schools with low business taxes, Canfield replied that it is a complex, challenging issue. He said this early in the campaign he had not yet formed a position on whether the state was spending enough on education or studied the thick budgets.

What a great start. While none of the traditional media saw fit to mention it in today’s stories, Senator Brownback’s longtime staffer Kim Smith is on leave to help the campaign. I have been told by several well informed sources that Brownback planted the seed but did not directly ask Canfield to run. In any case, it remains to be seen if Canfield can raise funds better than his republican primary opponents who both had abysmal reports.