KS lawmakers switch parties: Sykes, Clayton leave GOP, become Dems

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https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article223283450.html

TOPEKA--Two more Kansas lawmakers are leaving the Republican Party to become Democrats, shrinking the ranks of GOP moderates after the Legislature grew more conservative in the November election.

Sen. Dinah Sykes and Rep. Stephanie Clayton, both moderate Johnson County Republicans, said Wednesday they are becoming Democrats. They join Sen. Barbara Bollier, who left the Republican Party earlier in December.

The party switching comes after a nationwide surge of Democratic voters in suburban areas. The surge helped defeat Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, and some state lawmakers are now aligning themselves with this new political reality.

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This is interesting. Republicans own the Kansas legislatures by large majorities, and these legislators were all elected as Republicans. Meaning I see little reason for them to make the switch this at this time, unless it is on principle?

Does anyone believe otherwise?

 

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This is interesting. Republicans own the Kansas legislatures by large majorities, and these legislators were all elected as Republicans. Meaning I see little reason for them to make the switch this at this time, unless it is on principle?

Does anyone believe otherwise?

Could be the partisan makeup of their districts changing. Both of them are in rapidly shifting Johnson County which went to Romney by 17%, Trump by 2%, and Democrat Laura Kelly this year by 16%.

 

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One has to do what one has to do in order to feed one's family.

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That guy Joe on MSNBC changed to the Dems because he wanted to show his viewers how anti-Trump he is.


The chief justice of the California Supreme Court left the Republican Party because if she has political ambitions in California, she had better be a Democrat.


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It's the "in" thing nowadays to be a Democrat. If you're not, then people will assume that you are one of those deplorables. And that spells trouble for you at school and at work.