Todd "Sleeze-Ball" Tiahrt for Senate?

Rep Todd Tiahrt has been misrepresenting the fourth district in US Congress since 1995. Since that time, his main activities have been to skirt and manipulate campaign finance laws, use every perk to the max that comes with his office, including taking trips to foreign countries with his family at the tax-payers expense. What has he done for Kansas? Nothing. He put all his bets on a tanker building deal for Cesna, and now the contract went to a french company that Tiahrt took money from, in the past.
Now he wants to mis-represent all of Kansas as a US Senator. According to the Lawrence Journal World:

"Tiahrt readies for race in Senate
By John Hanna - Associated Press Writer
November 22, 2008

Topeka — Rep. Todd Tiahrt is making "very serious" preparations to run for the Senate in 2010, something that could lead to an intense Republican primary contest between the state’s two most senior congressmen.
Tiahrt, who represents the 4th District of south-central Kansas, stopped just short of declaring his candidacy Friday in an Associated Press interview. But he said he has made numerous phone calls and is receiving plenty of support.
"I’m putting together a steering committee and, at the appropriate time, I’ll make an announcement about that," Tiahrt said. "I’m very serious about doing this."

For the rest of us, that is not good news. He relies on some zombie religious cults to keep voting him back into office and he never even debates his opponents. He claims to be religious, yet he has used to office to make a lot of money for himself at the taxpayer's expense. The better educated realize he is a sleezy con-man, but he keeps relying on social issues, such as abortion, to get the support he needs of the ignorant supporters of the Christian right.
He is one of the most corrupted politicians in Congress today, selling all his votes to the highest bidder. He ran his re-election campaign on his fight to get the tanker deal back in Wichita, but he has had nearly 10 years to procure that developement and he hasn't gotten it done. He probably won't. He has amassed a huge campaign chest with $millions left over from past campaigns.
If the Kansas Democrats can't find someone to defeat this sleezy pig, who simply wants a bigger traugh to stick his snout in, they should all quit and move out of Kansas. We need a party that can stop this sleez-ball if he starts to try this stunt. Once he gets in the senate, he'll stay there as he has done in the Fourth district, and make all Kansans look like fools.
Let's hope Tiahrt runs for the senate so we can expose this skammer for what he is.

How much money did Rep. Todd Tiahrt make on this election? The figures speak for themselves. Of the more than $1.2 million he took in for campaigning, he only spent a little more than $700,000. That nets him a little more than $500,000 that he can spend on whatever he likes.
Being a representative of the house has been very financially rewarding to Tiahrt.
For more information click here.


Cycle Fundraising, 2007 - 2008
Raised:
$1,259,496
Spent:
$708,236
Cash on Hand:
$1,182,697
Debts:
$0
Last Report:
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Top 5 Contributors, 2007-2008

Koch Industries
$50,750
Hawker Beechcraf Inc
$21,750
Boeing Co
$12,000
Radiance Technologies
$11,100
Air Line Pilots Assn
$10,000


Top 5 Industries, 2007-2008


Air Transport
$97,590
Oil & Gas
$93,500
Lobbyists
$56,505
Retired
$46,050
Defense Aerospace
$45,750


Total Raised vs. Average Raised, 2007-2008
(See the graph)

Wichita wasn’t always so conservative, and neither was Tiahrt

Todd Tiahrt was once asked on an interview on one of the local news stations, several years ago. A caller asked him if the roomers were true that he once used LSD. He hesitated for some time and then said “no.” Later, he came back on TV to admit he once smoked marijuana and so that was the reason he hesitated.
Todd was born in 1951, which puts him at an older age than myself. There were a lot of drugs, LSD, included, going around in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. The truth may be that Todd not only took LSD, but may have been a part of the counter culture he now condemns. He is supposed to be a hard-core Christian who would never take part in any hedonism. But that hedonism was a part of Wichita when I was growing up and I’d bet he took part in some of it. Sex morals were loosened and drugs were plentiful back then. But Tiahrt doesn’t like looking back. He took a civil war vet and Democrat out off the halls of statues, for Kansas, and he put in Ike Eisenhower, even though the man only grew up here and spent little or none of his adult life here.

That’s why he probably wouldn’t like my portrayal of Wichita in the early 1970s, as depicted in my book Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie. The book tells of heroin use (and yes it was prevalent in 1973 to 1974). There were pot parties, LSD use, and there was a “freak” or “hippie” culture here in Wichita. Tiahrt would rather we believe Wichita was always a nice conservative town, but for much of its history, it just plain wasn’t.

Any one who wants to see what Wichita was like in the 1970s can order Memoirs
from Amazon.com. The first half of the book is set in Wichita.
Learn the truth about Wichita in the counter culture days.
Wichita wasn’t always so conservative, and neither was Tiahrt

Kansas majority said “piss on the rest of America! We stay red”

While the majority of the nation moved to the blue side, Kansans stubbornly stuck to their Republican red side and their backward views. They not only returned every national Republican to office, including Rep. Todd Tiahrt, they also increased the republicans in the state congress. Kansas seemed to make a point of saying to the rest of the nation; “PISS OFF. We’re Republicans and no matter how corrupt they are, no matter how bad they run the economy into the ground and start unnecessary wars, we stay Republican!”

An apology to Weasels

I insulted weasels by calling Todd Tiahrt one the other night. I was going to call him a tapeworm on the bowls of Kansas, but I can’t help fell I’m insulting tapeworms.

Anyway—here is a face shot of a tapeworm and Todd Tiahrt. I can tell them apart, but I think it’s just the tie that makes them look different.


These two may not look the same, but they have a lot in common.

Tiahrt bought another election

Despite Donald Betts last minute efforts to unseat and expose the idiot Tiahrt, the slippery weasel once again squeaked by to sucker us for another two years!!!!

Also it helped him by avoiding any debates or personal exchanges with his opponent,

One more chance to get RID of Tiahrt

This is our last chance to get rid of the Idiot Todd Tiahrt. The blog below outlines the difference. Even the most hard-core religious-right person would vote against Tiahrt if they new how corrupt and dishonest he really is. His own supporters would turn against him if only they new how badly they are being fleeced. Forget the polls. Just vote against this creep. Vote for Donald Betts