Funding for Kansas schools is a key issue for moderate Republicans hoping to recapture legislative seats from conservatives in Tuesday’s primary, and U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp is urging GOP voters to see his supposed cussedness as an asset.
The biggest races are on the Republican side, starting with Huelskamp’s tough challenge from Roger Marshall, a Great Bend obstetrician, in the 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas. Huelskamp’s critics have made his past conflicts with GOP leaders a key issue; he lost a seat on the House Agriculture Committee ...