Archive for Friday, July 11, 2008

Senate hopefuls to square off at forum

July 11, 2008

Kelly Kultala

Kelly Kultala

Sen. Mark Gilstrap

Sen. Mark Gilstrap

The Kansas City Kansas Area Chamber and the Lansing-Leavenworth Area Chamber are co-hosting a Candidate Forum from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, for the Democratic candidates in the Aug. 5 primary election for the Kansas 5th District State Senate seat.

Sen. Mark Gilstrap of Kansas City, Kan., is being challenged by Kelly Kultala of Kansas City, Kan., for the Democratic spot on the ticket in the general election. Gilstrap is seeking his third term in the Senate. Ms. Kultala is a former 5th District Unified Government commissioner and a former member of the Piper School Board.

Posing questions will be Mark Wiebe of the Kansas City Star, Sam Hartle of the Kansas City Kansan and Scott Lowder of the Leavenworth Times.

The event will be at the Lansing Community Center, 800 1st Terrace, Lansing. It is free and open to the public.

The winner of the Democratic primary will go on to face Republican candidate Steve Fitzgerald in the Nov. 4 general election.

Comments

  1. Bob_Busk (anonymous) says…

    Liberal elitist Kelly Kultala. Ties to Johnson county liberal elitists and she was a political lobbiest.
    She has Sebilius clone written all over her. She is endorsed by the Governor that has tried to destroy tradition rich Kansas. The governor that denied over 20,000 private sector jobs by imposing a liberal environmental whacko policy.

    Gilstrap has voted lockstep with the governor 93% of the time and even that isn't good enough for the power hungry Sebilius. Gilstrap, the man that brought Casino ownership to the state. We're the first state in the union to own its own casino's.

    Not only was taxing us not enough, now they want to take more in the form of gambling.

    Kansas needs to get back to its roots. Sound, conservative values.