According to a press release, Senator Sam Brownback was the winner in a straw poll held by the Midwestern Young Republican Conference. The full breakdown was:
Senator Sam Brownback
28.5%
Senator John McCain
26%
Gov. Mike Huckabee
12%
Sec. Condeleeza Rice
12%
Sen. George Allen
8.5%
Undecided
2.5%
Hon. Rudy Giuliani
2%
Hon. Newt Gingrich
2%
The press release can be found here.
What does this mean? Not much. The [...]
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This is another winning issue for Brownback who needs to moderate his image to appeal to moderate conservatives:
Caucus members have often times been joined by religious leaders in efforts to improve the human rights situation around the world. Brownback has been a frequent speaker at conferences addressing the human rights abuses in such countries as [...]
Frankly, I’m surprised it is that much. Senator Sam Brownback’s name recognition is still in the dumps and he is so polarizing that people who know who he is usually either love him or hate him.
What interests me about this poll by Gallup is not the numbers. This far out they are completely [...]
Senator Sam Brownback is satisfied with Condoleezza Rice’s announcement of more money to support Iranian democracy:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress on Wednesday to provide $75 million in emergency funding to step up pressure on the Iranian government, including expanding radio and television broadcasts into Iran and promoting internal opposition to the rule of [...]
Senator Sam Brownback has decided to unilaterally piss off two of the most powerful countries in the world, Russia and China, as a result for their noncommittal stance on Iran:
Brownback said that to pressure countries that support Iran, Washington should initiate a campaign of sanctions modeled on a 1980s campaign targeting companies that [...]
Ahh the jokes keep coming:
Sen. Arlen Specter(R., Pa.) brought down the house at last week’s Washington Press Club Foundation congressional dinner with several examples of low wit, according to Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper. Specter told the assembled that Sen. Sam Brownback (R., Kan.) is working on a movie about “two cowboys who go [...]
Senator Sam Brownback will be the Keynote Speaker tomorrow at a Heritage Foundation event titled, “Preventing a Nuclear-Armed Iran: Will Russia and China Really Help?”:
[The United States and Germany], along with other democratic leaders, have insisted that the UN Security Council must discuss this issue and take action to prevent Iran from continuing efforts to [...]
Near the end of the CJ Online article mentioned previously, Bob Beatty, a Washburn Political Science professor contradicted what Brownback’s spokesman said and postulated that we will not be seeing Brownback much this fall:
Beatty said Kansans might see Brownback some this fall. But he said the senator more likely will be spending time in Iowa, [...]