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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Throngs greet G&W By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
Like any well-orchestrated production, Wednesday’s official groundbreaking of G&W Foods on the site of the old hospital had many players whose combined roles put together an impressive performance. A handful of those players spoke at the gathering, while traffic along U.S. 54 drove See G&W | Page A5
Coming full circle Local dignitaries stood shovel-ready Wednesday to turn the ground for a new G&W Foods. The new grocery, coupled with Eastgate Lofts apartments, returns a more vibrant, neighborly feel to the area. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN
CANDIDATES SOUND OFF Murphy, Aronson share views on sheriff’s race
Tyson, Griffith spar on state issues
By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register
Candidates defended their agendas Wednesday night at a forum sponsored by Allen County Farm Bureau. The forum drew a fairsized, well-mannered crowd to Iola High School’s lecture hall. Although last to present at the hours-long event, Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy and his challenger, Mike Aronson, were eager to say why they should be Allen County’s next chief law enforcement officer. Murphy, a Republican nearing the end of his first four-year term as sheriff, and Aronson, who filed as an independent as his only challenger in the Nov. 8 election, fielded a series of questions ranging from their management style and administrative experience to tackling drug problems and keeping area residents safe. The sheriff ’s race, Aronson joked, was the primary reason why so many of the
There isn’t much Sen. Caryn Tyson and Carla Griffith agreed on when it comes to how best to manage Kansas. Tyson, the Republican incumbent from Parker, and Griffith, a write-in candidate from Ottawa who claims no political affiliation, are vying for the 12th District position. Tyson made every effort to distance herself from Gov. Sam Brownback, saying multiple times she has voted against 70 percent of the governor’s tax proposals. Griffith countered that on the measures that matter, Tyson remained decidedly in Brownback’s camp including her votes to increase the sales tax, reduce funding for education, give private businesses a tax break, and weaken the state’s judicial branch of government. Griffith said Gov. Brownback and his supporters have
From left, Jean Anderson and Marvin and Cathy Lynch listen at Wednesday’s Allen County Farm Bureau Candidate Forum at Iola High School. At right, Dr. Darrell Monfort served as the event’s moderator. REGIS-
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crowd of 85 stuck around to the end of the nearly fourhour candidate forum. A majority of the questions posed from moderator Darrel Monfort dealt with one of the campaign’s largest issues. “This will be my first managerial position,” Aronson declared. That lack of experience, however, is mitigated by what
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Moran gone, but not forgotten
Potter a Democrat in name only
By RICHARD LUKEN The Iola Register
By SUSAN LYNN The Iola Register
While he wasn’t at Wednesday’s candidate forum, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran loomed large at Wednesday’s forum. “It’s a virtual certainty” voters will elect Moran, his Libertarian challenger, Robert Garrard, said. Nevertheless, Garrard, Democratic challenger Patrick Wiesner and Joshua Berg, serving as Moran’s proxy, tackled a number of
Britani Potter, Ottawa, was a good sport when she, for all intents and purposes, was the only candidate who appeared at Wednesday’s forum in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives. Cong resswoman Lynn Jenkins sent staff member Lee Modesitt as her stand-in. Right off the bat, Potter said she was uncomfortable having to
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issues, ranging from whether the Farm Bill should be revamped, to how to tackle illegal
immigration and the battle against ISIS.
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declare herself ing of the issues a Democrat in was impressive. And though the race for the 2nd District the two women were not on seat, saying she felt the counstage together, try’s two-party their lives are a study in simisystem forced her to make Britany Potter larities and contrasts. the decision, but “In order for me to Potter grew up in maintain my integrity poverty and was a teenI must tell you I am an age mom who left an independent.” abusive relationship. With Potter as the ob- Since then she has put vious underdog against her self through colJenkins’s 16 years in lege and is working toSee POTTER | Page A3 state and federal office, Potter’s understand-
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