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PRIMARY ELECTION VOTER GUIDE
3 area House incumbents face primary challengers
4 candidates vying for seat on County Commission
Rep. Connie Jim vs. O’Brien Karleskint The conservative incumbent and Brownback ally faces a moderate Republican challenger in the 42nd District, which covers much of eastern Douglas County, including Eudora, and stretches into Leavenworth County.
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emocratic and Republican voters in the Douglas County Commission 3rd District will choose candidates Tuesday to advance to the November general election. Democrats vying to succeed retiring 3rd District County Commissioner Jim Flory, a Republican, are Lawrence businessman Bassem Chahine and rural Lecompton resident Jim Weaver, a retired career firefighter and former manager with the Douglas County Conservation District. The two Republicans on the ballot are former Kansas University Public Safety Director Jim Denney and Michelle Derusseau, who is active in a number of law enforcement support organizations. The 3rd District represents precincts in west Lawrence and western Douglas County. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Rep. Tom vs. Jeremy Sloan Ryan Pierce Moderate Republican Sloan has drawn a conservative challenger in the 45th District, which covers most of western Douglas County.
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Rep. Barbara vs. Steven Ballard X. Davis In the 44th District, which covers most of the west side of Lawrence, Democratic incumbent Barbara Ballard and challenger Steven X. Davis share many of the same political views.
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Jim Weaver
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Jim Denney
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Michelle Derusseau
Kansas voters to decide fate of GOP congressional incumbents By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press
Wichita — A Republican congressman who was swept into office during the 2010 tea party surge faces an aggressive primary challenge in the mostly rural 1st Congressional
District in a contest that makes other GOP primary races in deeply conservative Kansas look tepid by comparison. The state’s Democrats are fielding more candidates than usual in Tuesday’s primary election as they seek to make inroads against the
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former Osawatomie City Council member who ran against Sen. Pat Roberts for the GOP nomination in 2014 and whose recent campaign filing showed U.S. Senate no donations. Republican Sen. Jerry MoMoran said in an email ran faces a primary challenge that he wants to continue to from Della Jean “D.J.” Smith, a fight to change the culture in Republicans in the Nov. 8 general election. Here’s a look at the races on the ballot:
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Washington and push back against big government. Patrick Wiesner, a tax attorney and certified public accountant from Lawrence, is vying with Monique Singh-Bey for the Democratic nod. Please see CONGRESS, page 7A
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