The tea party-backed challenger for the GOP nomination has been casting the third-term senator as a Washington politician who has lost touch with his constituents. The challenger has acknowledged that several years ago he posted graphic X-ray images of fatal gunshot wounds and other medical injuries on a personal Facebook page, along with dark-humor commentary. Before speaking at the Augusta event, Roberts shed the dark suit jacket and baby-blue tie he'd worn at an earlier public event and rolled up the sleeves of his no-longer-crisp white shirt, and reminded the audience, as Cochran did in Mississippi, that Senate seniority can mean good things for a senator's home state. Should the GOP win the Senate majority, Roberts stands a good chance of being the next chairman of the Agriculture Committee, giving him an opportunity to shape farm policy while representing the nation's leading wheat-producing state and one of its top beef providers. The son of a state GOP kingmaker and confidant of Dwight Eisenhower, Roberts began working as a congressional staffer in 1967, won the House seat for western and central Kansas in 1980 and captured his Senate seat in 1996. Beside a big advantage in campaign cash, Roberts has the backing of key conservative groups that are core constituencies for the state GOP, including Kansans for Life and the Kansas State Rifle Association. While campaigning, Wolf highlights conservative positions on issues such as health care and gun rights that have brought him backing from tea party adherents and played up his status as a distant but critical relation of President Barack Obama. Caitlin Pretzer, a 21-year-old Salina resident and fast-food worker hoping to save money to study psychology, came to the Abilene town hall with a friend who supports Wolf and liked what she heard from the challenger.
Comment on Kansas senator's longevity gives GOP foe opening
By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Fri, 07/11/2014 - 12:35am
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