THIS IS THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO OUR STATE EVER IT WAS THE WEEK OF THE BIG ELECTION AND I'M GOING TO WASHINGTON TO FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES DEFEAT SOCIALISM AND LEAD THE FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA GOD HAS A PLAN IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK ON OUR TIMELINE COMING UP WHAT MESSAGE DID YOU SEND AT THE BALLOT BOX AND PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT HAPPENS NOW THOSE STORIES AND THE REST OF THE WEEK'S BIG LOCAL HEADLINES STRAIGHT AHEAD WEEK IN REVIEW IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF AARP KANSAS CITY RSM DAVE AND JAMIE CUMMINGS BOB AND MARLESE GOURLEY THE COURTNEY S TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST JOHN H MIZE AND BANK OF AMERICA N.A CO-TRUSTEES AND BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU THANK YOU WELCOME I'M NICK HAINES ARE YOU ANGRY AND UPSET OR JOYFUL AND GIDDY ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THIS WEEK'S ELECTION WE TRIED TO GET INSIDE YOUR MIND THIS HALF HOUR TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CHOICES YOU MADE AT THE BALLOT BOX AND WE TRACK WHAT HAPPENS NOW WITH FOUR JOURNALISTS CHARGED WITH TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL MICHAEL MAHONEY IS CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST AT KMBC 9 NEWS STEVE KRASKE IS MR UP TO DATE ON KCUR FM ALSO WITH US IS MY REPORTING COLLEAGUE MARY SANCHEZ FROM THE KANSAS CITY PBS DIGITAL NEWSROOM FLATLAND KC AND FROM THE PAGES OF THE KANSAS CITY STAR DAVE HELLING IT WAS DESCRIBED AS THE COUNTRY'S FIRST POST-ROW ABORTION TEST ON TUESDAY OUR AREA IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT AS KANSAS VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED LAWMAKERS TO IMPOSE NEW RESTRICTIONS ON THE PROCEDURE FIRST SEEN THIS IN KANSAS BEFORE LIKE I HAVE THIS IS THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO OUR STATE EVER THE WHOLE NATION IS WATCHING US AND WE DID THE RIGHT THING FOR WOMEN JUST TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF THE 59 PERCENT OF KANSAS WHO ULTIMATELY VOTED NO ON THE VALUE THAN BOTH AMENDMENT DID YOU PREDICT SUCH A LOPSIDED RESULT WE KNOW POLLING CAN OFTEN MISS THE MARK BUT HOW COULD POLLS SHOWING A NECK-AND-NECK CONTEST GET IT SO BADLY WRONG STEVE KRASKE YOU KNOW POLLS OFTENTIMES ARE WRONG NICK WE ALL KNOW THAT AND I THINK WHEN IT COMES TO SOMETHING AS PERSONAL AS ABORTION OF ANY ISSUE YOU PULL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS MIGHT BE AN ISSUE THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT BE AS CANDID AND AS FORTHCOMING AS THEY WOULD BE LOTS OF OTHER ISSUES LEADERS OF THE VALLEY THAT BOTH CAMPAIGN NOW SAY THEY WILL BE BACK MARY SANCHEZ WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN WELL THEY THEY WILL BE BACK I MEAN AND THAT'S GOING TO BE THE CHALLENGE FOR THOSE THAT ARE YOU KNOW SO ELATED RIGHT NOW IN THE VOTE TURNOUT THIS IS JUST A VERY FIRST EARLY SKIRMISH IF YOU MAY I MEAN THIS IS A LONG HAUL ISSUE THEY CAN GO BACK TRY IT AGAIN WITH DIFFERENT LANGUAGES PEOPLE OF FAITH ARE USED TO PLAYING THE LONG GAME THAT IS WHAT FAITH IS YOU KNOW THAT THEY DON'T VIEW THIS NECESSARILY AS A LOSS IT'S JUST A HURDLE AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE BACK WELL COULD COULD THAT MEAN ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT COMING BACK ON THE BALLOT WITH AS MARY SUGGESTS STAPELLING DIFFERENT LANGUAGE BECAUSE THIS WAS AN OPEN ENDED ASK IN SOME RESPECTS IF BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN UH IF THIS ACTUALLY WAS PASSED FIRST OF ALL UH COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE BALLOT LANGUAGE ARE NOT ALLOWED BECAUSE THE PRO-LIFE PEOPLE WROTE IT AND THEY PICKED THE DATE SO THEY CAN'T COMPLAIN NOW THAT PEOPLE WERE CONFUSED BUT WHAT I DO THINK YOU WILL SEE HAPPEN NICK IS THE LEGISLATURE WILL TRY OTHER RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION BECAUSE REMEMBER THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT SAID THAT RESTRICTIONS ARE ALLOWED AS LONG AS THEY MEET WHAT THEY CALL STRICT SCRUTINY WHICH IS PROOF THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO DO IT AND THAT YOU'RE USING THE LEAST RESTRICTIVE WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING THAT GOAL SO RESTRICTIONS ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN KANSAS AND MY GUESS IS THE LEGISLATURE WILL PASS THEM PARTICULARLY IF DEREK SCHMIDT IS ELECTED GOVERNOR HE'LL SIGN HIM AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE COURTS AGAIN TO SEE WHAT THE PARAMETERS OF THEIR DECISION TURNS COULDN'T WE CHANGE THE JUDGES ON THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT THERE HAVE BEEN EFFORTS IN THE PAST EVEN IN THIS LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION TO CHANGE THE WAY WE EVEN UM APPOINT SUPREME COURT JUSTICES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS NICK THERE'S TALK THAT THE ANTI-ABORTION SIDE IS GOING TO GO AFTER THREE OF THOSE JUDGES UP FOR RETENTION WHO VOTED TO MAKE ABORTION ABORTION RIGHTS A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION NICK I WOULDN'T WANT THIS CONVERSATION TO GO ANY FURTHER WITHOUT JUST ACKNOWLEDGING MAYBE THE OBVIOUS FACT HERE WHAT A MIRACLE THIS WAS THAT PLAYED OUT ON TUESDAY IN KANSAS I MEAN TO HAVE THIS VOTE NEARLY YOU KNOW TRENDING TOWARDS A MILLION PEOPLE SHOWING UP ON A 100 DEGREE DAY OR VOTING DURING HOT WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE ELECTION IN AUGUST ON A CONFUSING BALLOT AN UH INITIATIVE STRANGE WORDING TO HAVE THIS THING UH TURN OUT THE WAY IT DID DESPITE THE MILLIONS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SPENT IS SOMETHING THAT IS JUST REALLY ASTONISHING IN MY TIME COVERING KANSAS POLITICS YOU READ NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS TODAY LIKE THE NEW YORK TIMES EVERYWHERE YOU GO KANSAS KANSAS KANSAS KANSAS EVERYONE RESPONDING AND REACTING TO WHAT WAS JUST THIS ASTONISHING OUTCOME BECAUSE THEY VIEW IT AS A CERTAIN TREND BUT YOU KNOW SOME VIEWING IT AS A POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE MICHAEL MAHONEY OTHERS SAYING THIS WAS JUST A ONE-OFF THAT WON'T HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTS IN THE FUTURE ELECTIONS INCLUDING THIS FALL I BELIEVE IT WILL HAVE UH RIPPLE EFFECTS AND TO REINFORCE WHAT UH WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT FIVE OF THE SIX JUDGES THAT VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THIS SUPREME COURT RULING IN 2019 ARE UP FOR RETENTION IN NOVEMBER THEY HAD AN INSTANCE A FEW YEARS AGO UP IN THE STATE OF IOWA WHERE THEY UH REJECTED UH I BELIEVE IT WAS THREE MEMBERS OF THEIR SUPREME COURT BECAUSE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR GAY RIGHTS UP THERE AND IT WAS A FIERCE CAMPAIGN DOES THIS GIVE A NEW BURST OF LIFE TO LAURA KELLY NOW THAT SHE'S RUNNING FOR REELECTION IN KANSAS HOW ABOUT SHARICE DAVIDS I MEAN SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID SHE WAS TOAST DOES THIS VOTE CHANGE THAT TAKE A LOOK AT THE JOHNSON COUNTY RESULTS ON THIS QUESTION AND SHARICE DAVIDS HAS TO BE A LITTLE HAPPIER THAN AMANDA ATKINS IN THAT RACE BECAUSE THE VOTE IN JOHNSON COUNTY WAS PLUS 36 POINTS FOR THE NO POSITION ON ABORTION SO I THINK SHE'S HAPPIER NOW THERE WAS A THEORY LAST WEEK THAT ACTUALLY LAURA KELLY WANTED YES TO PREVAIL BECAUSE THEN VOTERS WOULD SEE HER AS THE LAST BASTION BEFORE ABORTION BECAME BANNED IN KANSAS I NEVER BOUGHT THAT AND UH I DON'T THINK UH IT'S TRUE NOW I DO THINK THAT'S KIND OF A TOSS-UP RACE IN MANY WAYS WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS ONE OTHER NOTE MIKE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE JUDGE'S QUESTION THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT IN KANSAS TO GET RID OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICES BECAUSE OF SCHOOL FUNDING DECISIONS YOU'LL REMEMBER THAT A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND KANSAS VOTERS SAID NO AGAIN IN A CONSERVATIVE LOW-TAX STATE THEY RETAINED THOSE JUDGES IT IS A VERY HARD AND PARTICULARLY NOW SINCE EVERYBODY'S WATCHING NICK IT'S GOING TO BE A HARD HARD TASK TO OUST THOSE JUDGES I THINK ONE OTHER THING VERY QUICKLY ON THIS THE THE VALUE OF THEM BOTH AMENDMENT WAS AN UP OR DOWN ON ONE ISSUE ABORT ABORTIONS CLEAR CUT NOVEMBER AND THE MIDTERMS ARE NOT GOING TO BE LIKE THAT THE DOMINANT ISSUE IS STILL GOING TO BE THE ECONOMY AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE FACING STIFF HEADWINDS HERE AND ACROSS THE NATION ON THAT I SEE REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS EVEN SAYING DON'T MENTION ABORTION LET'S TALK ABOUT INFLATION LET'S TALK ABOUT GAS PRICES LET'S TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION THIS FALL YES IT'S LIKE MOVE AWAY FROM THIS ISSUE BECAUSE THAT IS THE QUESTION IS RIGHT NOW KANSAS WAS JUST IN THE SPOTLIGHT ROE V WADE HAD JUST BEEN OVERTURNED THAT ENERGY THAT MOMENTUM WAS MASSIVE IT WILL NOT EXIST AGAIN IN THAT SAME SPACE SO MOVING VOTERS FROM THIS ONE ISSUE AND THEIR ENTHUSIASM TO THE OTHERS IS GOING TO BE THE CHALLENGE IS THIS THE FACE OF MISSOURI'S NEXT U.S SENATOR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC SCHMIDT COMING OUT ON TOP IN THE BIGGEST RACE ON THE BALLOT IN MISSOURI AND I'M GOING TO WASHINGTON TO FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES DEFEAT SOCIALISM AND LEAD THE FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA I JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH ERIC SCHMIDT AND CONGRATULATED HIM ON HIS VICTORY GOD HAS A PLAN IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK ON OUR TIMELINE AND SOMETIMES SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO PRACTICE PATIENCE IS ERIC GREITENS BLAMING DONALD TRUMP FOR HIS LOSS STEVE IF ONLY TRUMP HAD ENDORSED HIM OUTRIGHT INSTEAD OF MORE CREATIVELY AND GENERICALLY ENDORSING ERIC FIRST NAME ONLY WOULD IT HAVE BEEN ENOUGH TO PROPEL HIM OVER THE FINISH LINE WELL IF DONALD TRUMP HAD ENDORSED ERIC GREITENS THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT ON TUESDAY NIGHT NICK BUT HAVING SAID THAT ERIC GREITENS UH IS WAS HURTING HEADING INTO THE ELECTION AND CERTAINLY HIS POLITICAL FUTURE HAS BEEN GRAVELY DAMAGED HERE MARY IS THAT THE END OF ERIC GREITENS IN POLITICAL LIFE IN MISSOURI OR WAS THIS JUST THIS FIRST COMEBACK HE'S GOT ANOTHER ONE COMING UP I THINK HE'LL TRY AGAIN I MEAN THE THING ABOUT ERIC GREITENS IS ERIC GREITENS DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT HE EVER DID ANYTHING WRONG NOT IN HIS MARRIAGE NOT IN THE ETHICAL LAPSES HE JUST YOU KNOW HE SEES THIS PROBABLY AS JUST ONE RACE THAT HE LOST THAT HE DIDN'T DO THAT WELL IN HE WILL BE BACK ERIC SCHMITT BY THE WAY NOW ONE STEP AWAY FROM SUCCEEDING ROY BLUNT IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE LAST WEEK DAVE HELLING YOU SUGGESTED IF ERIC SCHMIDT WINS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS TOAST DO YOU STILL FEEL THAT WAY NOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A NOVEMBER MATCHUP BETWEEN BEER COMPANY HEIRESS TRUDY BUSH VALENTINE AND ERIC SCHMIDT YEAH I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE VERY VERY DIFFICULT FOR HER CAMPAIGN FIRST OF ALL SHE'S NOT AN UH NATURAL POLITICIAN IN ANY WAY SHE DIDN'T EXPOSE HERSELF TO MEDIA AT ALL SCHMITT WILL IF THEY GET ON A DEBATE STAGE TOGETHER WILL DO VERY WELL AGAINST TRUDY BUSCH VALENTINE SO FOR ALL AND I THINK NATIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL LOOK TO SPEND THEIR MONEY IN OTHER PLACES BECAUSE BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT SCHMIDT IS THE FAVORITE ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO SAY QUICKLY ABOUT THE PRIMARY IS AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT LAST WEEK THE TRUMP ENDORSEMENT DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING BUT THE ANTI-ENDORSEMENT OF VICKY HARTZLER MEANT EVERYTHING IT REALLY KILLED HER MOMENTUM SHE WENT FROM 35 40 TO 20.

THAT VOTE DID NOT GO TO ERIC GREITENS IT WENT TO ERIC SCHMITT AND THAT'S WHAT UH THE MAIN MOTIVATOR WAS IN THIS ROUND THERE WAS ANOTHER UH SPANNER IN THE WORKS THIS WEEK THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE JOHN WOOD OFFICIALLY SUBMITTED THE SIGNATURES REQUIRED TO ADD HIS NAME TO THIS MISSOURI SENATE BALLOT DOES THE FORMER CHIEF COUNSEL TO THE JANUARY SIX COMMITTEE TAKE VOTES FROM SCHMITT OR TAKE VOTES FROM VALENTINE STEVE CLARK IF HE TAKES VOTES FROM ANYBODY IT'S GOING TO BE FROM ERIC SCHMIDT NICK HE JOHN WOOD IS A REPUBLICAN HAS BEEN A LIFELONG REPUBLICAN AND THAT'S WHERE HIS UH HE'LL GET HIS SUPPORT THAT SAID JOHN WOOD HAS A LOT OF CONVINCING TO DO TO VOTERS HE'S A BIG SALES PITCH TO MAKE HERE HOW IS HE DIFFERENT THAN ERIC SCHMIDT WHAT DOES HE BRING TO THE TABLE THAT ERIC SCHMIDT DOESN'T WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY OF THAT YET IF IF JOHN WOOD'S GOING TO HAVE ANY IMPACT HE'S GOT TO GET STARTED QUICKLY CONNECTING WITH MISSOURIANS IN A WAY THAT HE HASN'T SO FAR THE OTHER THING IF THERE IS A SHOT FOR TRUDY BUSH VALENTINE THIS IS IT AND IT GOES BACK TO WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT MOST OF THIS PROGRAM AND THAT IS THE DYNAMICS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN KANSAS AFTER WORLD VERSUS WADE IF THE TRUDY BUSCH VALENTINE CAMPAIGN IS SMART AND THEY WOULD LISTEN TO ME AND DOES ANYONE LISTEN TO YOU MIKE NO ONE LISTENS TO ME ESPECIALLY AT MY HOUSE SHE RUNS A A PRO-CHOICE CAMPAIGN IT WAS ONE OF THE FEW ISSUES WHERE SHE WAS ACTUALLY DEFINITIVE ABOUT A STANCE DURING DURING THE PRIMARY SHE RUNS PRO-CHOICE MORNING NOON AND NIGHT AND SHE'S GOT ERIC SCHMITT WHO SIX MINUTES AFTER THE DOBS DECISION CAME OUT STRIKING DOWN ROE VERSUS WADE SIGNED THE ORDER BUT NOT IS THAT REALLY ENOUGH THOUGH IN A REPUBLICAN STATE LIKE MISSOURI MAYBE NOT I DON'T THINK SO IT'S GOING TO BE AGAIN TRUDY BUSCH VALENTINE JUST HASN'T DEMONSTRATED THAT SHE CAN STAND TOE-TO-TOE ON A STAGE WITH ANYBODY SHE CERTAINLY AVOIDED ANY TOE-TO-TOE STANDS AGAINST LUCAS KUNCE DURING THE PRIMARY AND HE HAS A WAYS TO GO IS BEING A LOCAL TV HOST A STEPPING STONE TO CONGRESS MARK ALFORD TOOK HIS NAME ID AS MORNING ANCHOR AT FOX 4 NEWS ALL THE WAY TO WINNING THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR MISSOURI'S 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT THAT'S THE SEAT CURRENTLY HELD BY VICKI HARTZLER HE DOES FACE A DEMOCRAT THIS FALL BUT IS HE NOW POSITIONED TO BE THE NEWEST MEMBER OF MISSOURI'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION NO I THINK HE'S THE OVERWHELMING FAVORITE IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT WHICH IS VERY CONSERVATIVE YOU KNOW MIKE THOMPSON THE FORMER WEATHERMAN AT CHANNEL 4 IS IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE NOW MARK ALFORD IS HEADING TO WASHINGTON UH YOU KNOW MAHONEY FOR MAYOR IS YOU KNOW THE NEXT THING THAT WE HAVE TO WORK ON A LITTLE BIT FOR GOVERNOR WELL GOVERNOR I DON'T KNOW I'VE GOT I'VE GOT BIGGER TARGETS IN MIND BUT UH HE OBVIOUSLY WROTE NAME RECOGNITION TO THIS NOMINATION MARK ALFORD NICK BECAUSE RICK BRATTON HIS PRIMARY OPPONENT WAS WELL KNOWN IN THE DISTRICT AND HAD SERVED AS A STATE SENATOR AND THE STATE REPRESENTATIVE SO IT WAS IT WAS NAME ID THAT GOT HIM OVER THE TOP I WANT TO MOVE BACK TO KANSAS RIGHT NOW WHILE THE ABORTION AMENDMENT DOMINATED ELECTION COVERAGE THERE VOTERS WERE ALSO MAKING SOME OTHER BIG ELECTION DAY CHOICES INCLUDING WHO SHOULD SUCCEED ED ISLET AS LEADER OF JOHNSON COUNTY WE NOW KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE EITHER MIKE KELLY OR CHARLOTTE O'HARA O'HARA ALREADY SERVES ON THE JOHNSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS KELLY IS THE MAYOR OF ROLAND PARK WHAT WERE VOTERS TELLING US STEVE KRASKE ON TUESDAY ABOUT THIS RACE WELL INTERESTING RESULT MIKE KELLY VERY IMPRESSIVE FINISH IN THIS THING FINISHING FIRST BY A LONG SHOT LIKE MARK ALFORD HE USED TO SHARE THIS TABLE WITH US WINNING THE FOURTH DISTRICT THAT WAS A QUITE A PRIMARY HE PULLED AWAY EASILY AND WON BUT CLEARLY VOTERS SENDING A MESSAGE THAT THEY'RE OPEN TO THE IDEA OF MORE PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP IN A COUNTY THAT HAS BEEN TRADITIONALLY DOMINATED BY ED EILERT AND A VERY VERY TRADITIONAL BRAND OF REPUBLICAN POLITICS THAT HAS PLAYED WELL FOR SO MANY DECADES IN JOHNSON COUNTY THIS IS A DIFFERENT DAY HE'S GOING AGAINST CHARLOTTE O'HARA VERY CONSERVATIVE VERY HARD TO IMAGINE CHARLOTTE O'HARA WINNING THIS RACE SHE HASN'T FARED WELL IN OTHER COUNTY-WIDE RACES SO FAR I THINK MIKE KELLY A BIG FAVORITE HEADING INTO NOVEMBER HERE THIS SORT OF REMINDS ME OF THE OBERLIN PARK MAYOR'S RACE FOR MY UH JUST A WHILE AGO BECAUSE THERE WAS A STAID ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE WHO WON HAD A FIREBRAND OUTSIDER A BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS WHO WAS CHALLENGING IT UH CHARLOTTE O'HARA IS NOT THAT MUCH OF AN OUTSIDER BUT CERTAINLY IS A FIREBRAND AND WE'LL SEE JOHNSON COUNTY VOTERS IN NOVEMBER HAVE A BLACK AND WHITE CHOICE IN THIS THEY'RE THEY'RE TWO VERY DIFFERENT CANDIDATES COUNTY NICK IS CHANGING SO MUCH IT'S JUST FASCINATING FOR THOSE OF US WHO'VE COVERED POLITICS FOR A LONG TIME JOHNSON COUNTY WAS THE MOST RELIABLY REPUBLICAN COUNTY URBAN COUNTY IN THE STATE OF KANSAS AND YET NOW MIKE KELLY A PROGRESSIVE MAYOR IS THE FAVORITE FOR COUNTY CHAIR YOU HAD THE ABORTION VOTE JOHNSON COUNTY WENT FOR JOE BIDEN IN 2020 SHARICE DAVIDS OUSTED KEVIN YODER I MEAN THE EVIDENCE IS JUST VERY CLEAR THAT A TRANSFORMATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY FROM RELIABLY SORT OF SUBURBAN BEDROOM COMMUNITY REPUBLICANISM TO A MORE DIVERSE MORE PROGRESSIVE APPROACHES IN OTHER ELECTION NEWS JACKSON COUNTY EXECUTIVE FRANK WHITE WAS FORCED TO VOTE FROM HIS VEHICLE THIS WEEK AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID IT WASN'T HIS ONLY SCARE HE BARELY WON HIS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY CONTEST AGAINST POLITICAL NEWCOMER STACY LAKE DID FRANK WHITE GET MORE THAN A HEALTH WARNING THIS WEEK MARY I THINK HE DID A LITTLE BIT I MEAN YOU KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST ASSUME KIND OF LIKE THE MARK ALFORD THAT NAME RECOGNITION AND I DO THINK HIS PAST WITH THE ROYALS IS HOW HE WAS INITIALLY ELECTED BUT NOW THAT'S IN HIS REAR-VIEW MIRROR PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE AND THE COUNTY THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT IS IN THE EYE OF VOTERS MORE THAN IT HAS BEEN IN RECENT YEARS THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON WITH GETTING THE WORLD CUP WITH THE CHIEF STADIUM WITH ROYALS STADIUM MOVING ALL OF THAT THE ASSESSORS HAVE BEEN AROUND IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SO PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT THE COUNTY IN WAYS THAT THEY NEVER DID BEHAVIOR IS HE IN DANGER OF BEING OUSTED IN NOVEMBER WHEN HE'S GOT A FAR MORE BETTER KNOWN BETTER FINANCED OPPONENT IN REPUBLICAN TERESA GALVIN ALREADY SERVES ON THE UH JACKSON COUNTY IT WILL BE A CHALLENGING CAMPAIGN I THINK THE PRIMARY RESULT WAS UH WAS FRANK WHITE PAYING THE UH THE ASSESSMENT PENALTY UH FOR THE CONTROVERSY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND HE IS GOING TO FACE A VETERAN MEMBER OF THIS COUNTY LEGISLATOR AN INFIGHTER IN THE COURTHOUSE AND IT'LL BE AN INTERESTING CAMPAIGN I SPOKE WITH TERESA GALVIN TODAY FOR A STORY WE'RE WORKING ON SHE SAYS SHE'S GOING TO FOCUS A LITTLE BIT ON THE MASK MANDATE WHICH I THINK THERE IS STILL SOME ANGER ABOUT RELATED TO COVET IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTY NOT ALL BUT IN SOME PARTS OF THE COUNTY AND THE APPRAISAL MASS THAT MIKE JUST TALKED ABOUT BUT WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON SOMETHING MARY TALKED ABOUT WHICH IS THE STADIUMS THE NEXT COUNTY EXECUTIVE WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PLAYERS IN THE FUTURE OF THE CHIEFS AND ROYALS IT'S A FOUR YEAR TERM WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THE STADIUMS DOWNTOWN TRUMAN SPORTS COMP WHATEVER HAPPENS THE NEXT COUNTY EXECUTIVE WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT DISCUSSION IN THAT CRITICAL DISCUSSION OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS SO VOTERS WILL REALLY WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT BOTH CANDIDATES SAY ON THIS ISSUE AND THEY NEED THEIR POSITIONS TO BE PRETTY TRANSPARENT BEFORE VOTERS GO TO THE POLICE IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN UPSET GOING INTO NOVEMBER THIS MIGHT BE THE RACE YOU WANT TO LOOK AT YEAH WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST WINNERS ON ELECTION NIGHT KRIS KOBACH EVEN THOUGH VOTERS REJECTED THE KANSAS ABORTION AMENDMENT THEY DID PUSH KRIS KOBACH OVER THE FINISH LINE IN THE QUEST TO BECOME THE NEXT KANSAS ATTORNEY GENERAL IT'S A JOB THAT WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN HOW THE STATE'S CURRENT ABORTION LAW IS IMPLEMENTED AND IT GIVES HIM A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO PLACE NEW REQUIREMENTS ON THE STATE'S ABORTION CLINICS IN A RECORD TURNOUT ELECTION WHAT WERE VOTERS TELLING US IN THIS RACE ON TUESDAY MICHAEL UH THAT KRIS KOBACH AGAIN HAS HIGH NAME ID IN IN THE STATE OF KANSAS HE HAD UH TWO VERY COMPETENT OPPONENTS PROBABLY ONE TOO MANY UH IN THAT RACE UH EITHER UH KELLY WARREN OR TONY MATIVI HAD BEEN HEAD-TO-HEAD AGAINST KOBACH UH THOSE TWO SURPASSED HIM IN THEIR VOTE TOTALS BUT UH HE IS BACK AND HE HAS A FORMIDABLE UH DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT UH THE PROSECUTOR FROM I BELIEVE SALINE COUNTY OF COURSE MAN CHRIS MANN THANK YOU UM AND UH THERE ARE WELL POLICE OFFICER HE WAS A FORMER PROSECUTOR IN WYANDOTTE COUNTY BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE REALLY HEARD OF CHRIS MANN I THINK TOO MANY HAVE NOT FOR HIS SAKE AND THAT'S GOING TO BE THE PROBLEM WELL LET'S SEE WHAT THE KANSAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS LEFT IN ITS TANK HERE BECAUSE IF THERE EVER WAS A RACE TAILOR-MADE FOR A DEMOCRATIC PICKUP THIS IS THE RACE IN KANSAS RIGHT HERE GIVEN CHRIS KOBACH'S CHECKERED HISTORY ALL THE CONTROVERSY THAT HAS DOGGED HIM FOR SO MANY YEARS YES WE HAVEN'T HEARD OF HIM RIGHT NOW WAIT A MONTH OR SIX WEEKS FROM NOW IF WE'RE STILL SAYING THAT THEN MAYBE CHRIS MANN IS DONE BUT I THINK THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE KOBACH GOT LESS THAN HALF THE VOTES IN A CLOSED REPUBLICAN PRIMARY SO THAT'S A CHALLENGE FOR HIM AND AGAIN JOHNSON COUNTY PROVIDES ONE OUT OF FOUR VOTES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS AND THEY PROVIDED THE MARGIN FOR LAURA KELLY AGAINST KOBACH FOUR YEARS AGO IN THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR SO I THINK HE'S GOT A BIT OF AN UPHILL CHALLENGE PARTICULARLY BECAUSE CHRIS MANN IS A PRETTY GOOD CAMPAIGN BUT HE SAID THAT WAS A BAD YEAR FOR UM REPUBLICANS AT THAT TIME ALL RIGHTY CAN YOU ALSO HELP US UNDERSTAND BY THE WAY ANOTHER BIG ELECTION CHOICE ON TUESDAY WILL REPUBLICANS SUPPORTED KRIS KOBACH FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL THEY OVERWHELMINGLY REJECTED THE MORE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE IN THE RACE TO BE THE STATE'S CHIEF ELECTIONS OFFICER SCOTT SCHWAB HANDILY DEFEATING MIKE BROWN IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S RACE WHY WAS KOBACH SUCCESSFUL AND NOT MIKE BROWN EVEN THOUGH THEY BOTH SHARED VERY SIMILAR POLICY POSITIONS WELL DOWN BALLOT RACES ARE KIND OF WEIRD ANYWAY BECAUSE PEOPLE AREN'T PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO THEM IN THIS CASE MIKE BROWN WAS TRYING TO MAKE A VERY DIFFICULT AND PERHAPS IMPROBABLE CASE THAT KANSAS ELECTIONS ARE RIDDLED WITH FRAUD THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE BUT YOU KNOW HE DID IT WAS WHAT 55-45 RACE SO I I MEAN HE DID SCORE SOME POINTS ON THAT WE'VE PULLED BACK THE CURTAIN ON SOME OF THE KEY RACES ON BOTH SIDES OF STATE LINE BUT WHAT WAS THE ELECTION TREND STEVE KRASKE OR RACE WE FAILED TO MENTION WE OVERLOOKED AND WE NOW IGNORE AT OUR PERIL YOU KNOW BIG DEVELOPMENT THIS WEEK DENNIS PYLE A VERY CONSERVATIVE STATE SENATOR IN KANSAS HE'S FROM NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE HE FILED PETITIONS TO RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT FOR GOVERNOR IN THE STATE HE CLEARLY ISN'T HAPPY WITH HIS OWN PARTY I THINK I'VE MENTIONED HERE BEFORE THIS TREND THIS CANDIDACY IS REALLY BEING OVERLOOKED IN THIS STATE AS LAURA KELLY GOES UP AGAINST DEREK SCHMIDT VIRTUALLY EVERY VOTE THAT DENNIS PYLE GETS AND HE'S GOING TO GET SOME BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO MAKE SURE HE'S WELL FUNDED WILL COME OUT OF DEREK SCHMIDT'S BACK POCKET AND A RACE THAT MIGHT A MONTH OR TWO AGO HAVE BEEN TILTING TOWARDS DEREK SCHMIDT I THINK TODAY IS VERY MUCH A TOSS UP BECAUSE OF THE CANDIDACY OF THIS STATE SENATOR NAMED DENNIS PYLE YOU KNOW ANOTHER BIG TREND OF COURSE WAS THE FAKE TEXT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE STATE OF KANSAS ON THE ABORTION AMENDMENT GIVING PEOPLE THE IDEA THAT SOMEHOW A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE WOULD BE THE YES VOTE ON THAT BUT WE DID FIND OUT THIS WEEK THAT THAT IS TOTALLY LEGAL THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT IN KANSAS WELL YES AND I THINK WE WROTE ABOUT THIS THE LEGISLATURE NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE IDEA THAT AT LEAST YOU PUT A DISCLAIMER ON A TEXT LIKE THAT SO YOU KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM IT TURNS OUT THE MONEY FOR THE GROUP THAT BOUGHT THE TEXT FUNNELED THROUGH A PACK RUN BY FORMER REPRESENTATIVE TIM HUGHES CAMP ACTUALLY CAME FROM CATHOLIC VOTE WHICH IS AN ORGANIZATION IN WISCONSIN BUT THE OTHER THING NICK IS THERE WILL BE CALLS FOR THE LEGISLATURE TO ENABLE THE ETHICS COMMISSION OR SOMEONE TO MAKE TO JUDGE WHETHER TEXTS LIKE THAT ARE TRUE OR NOT IT'S VERY DANGEROUS YOU WHEN YOU GET INTO A SITUATION WHERE A STATE AGENCY DETERMINES WHAT'S TRUE OR NOT TRUE AS MIKE WILL ATTEST AND MY COLLEAGUES AS WELL WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO JUDGE WHAT IS AND ISN'T TRUE IN A POLITICAL MESSAGE IT GETS VERY MESSY VERY QUICKLY SO FOR ALL THOSE ALL THOSE OVERTURES WE'RE HEARING RIGHT NOW FROM LAWMAKERS SAYING WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THIS WHEN WE GET BACK INTO PEAK IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY RIGHT AND JUST TO POINT OUT GREAT REPORTING BY THE WASHINGTON POST TO FIGURE IT OUT THAT TIM'S TIM HUELL'S CAMP CONNECTION TO THAT PACKAGE AND LET ME JUST SAY VERY QUICKLY THE THE ANSWER NICK IS WHAT YOU SAW WHICH IS REPORTERS GOING TO WORK TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE POINTING OUT THAT IT WAS A LIE I THINK VOTERS GOT THAT MESSAGE NOT A STATE AGENCY IT WAS PROBABLY ANOTHER LAST MINUTE GALVANIZATION FOR THE UH NO ON AMENDMENT TWO FOLKS IT REALLY TOOK THEM BACK IT WAS PROOF THAT THE YES PEOPLE KNEW THEY WERE IN TROUBLE YEAH MAKE NO MISTAKE THIS WEEK'S ELECTION WAS THE BIGGEST STORY IN TOWN BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE WASN'T A LOT OF OTHER THINGS HAPPENING IN KANSAS CITY THIS WEEK AS WE FIXATED ON YOUR BALLOTS WHAT WAS THE BIG LOCAL STORY WE MISSED WITH SO MANY PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT RISING PRICES RIGHT NOW IT'S TAX-FREE WEEKEND IN MISSOURI SCHOOL SUPPLIES CLOTHING AND PERSONAL COMPUTERS TAX-FREE THROUGH THE SUNDAY NIGHT KANSAS PREPPING FOR A NEW SCHOOL YEAR WITH NO TEACHERS A NEW REPORT SAYS THE STATE IS FACING A RECORD TEACHER SHORTAGE WITH 1400 POSITIONS STILL OPEN WHILE MOST OF US HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON THE ELECTION KANSAS CITY INCHING TOWARDS 100 HOMICIDES THE CITY ALREADY OUTPACING LAST YEAR'S MURDER RATE MEANWHILE OVERLAND PARK INVESTIGATING ITS FIFTH HOMICIDE THERE WAS ONLY ONE MURDER IN THE CITY LAST YEAR MISSOURI SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY BACK IN THE NATIONAL HEADLINES AS THE SENATE VOTES TO ADD FINLAND AND SWEDEN TO NATO HE IS THE LONE NO VOTE PAULIE CLAIMS THE DEBATE DISTRACTS FROM WHAT HE BELIEVES IS THE COUNTRY'S BIGGEST ENEMY CHINA AND WILL YOU RECOGNIZE ANY OF THE PLAYERS WHEN YOU NEXT HEAD OUT TO THE CAVE WITH THE WORLD SERIES RUN OUT OF THE QUESTION THE ROYALS TRADING SOME OF THEIR BEST-KNOWN STARS WHIT MERRIFIELD THE LATEST HE'S HEADING TO THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS HE WAS DENIED ENTRY TO CANADA JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO FOR BEING UNVACCINATED ALREADY MARY SANCHEZ DID YOU PICK ONE OF THOSE STORIES OR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT I DID GO WITH ONE OF YOUR CHOICES WHICH IS THE TEACHER SHORTAGE I MEAN THAT JUST IT IS GOING TO ONLY CONTINUE AND GET WORSE AND WORSE AND IT IS JUST SO IMPORTANT IS THAT WHY WE'RE ALSO HEARING THAT THERE MAY BE A FOUR DAY WEEK NOW FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI SIDE RIGHT NOW SOME DISTRICTS HAVE GONE TO THAT I MEAN THEY'RE GOING TO BE TRYING ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS YOU'RE SEEING PEOPLE WITHOUT CREDENTIALS ARE BEING ASKED TO TEACH AND THAT'S YOU KNOW THERE'S SOME GOOD AND BAD ON THAT BUT WHAT PARENTS KNOW IS THAT PARTICULARLY IN YOUNG ELEMENTARY LEVELS IF YOUR CHILD HAS ONE TEACHER WHO THEY DON'T CONNECT WITH AND THEY GET BEHIND IT CAN REALLY HARM THEM THROUGHOUT THEIR ACADEMIC CAREER THAT IT'S THIS IS JUST SUCH A CRUCIAL ISSUE FOR FAMILIES MICHAEL I'M GOING TO TAKE MY FEW SECONDS HERE AND PASS ON THIS AND SALUTE THE LATE VIN SCULLY THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS PLAY BY PLAY ANNOUNCER WHO I BELIEVE WAS THE GREATEST BASEBALL ANNOUNCER THE GAME HAS EVER HAD AND HE ONCE STAYED AT THE WESTERN CROWN CENTER HOTEL IN KANSAS CITY THAT'S GIVING IT THE LOCAL CONNECTION THANK YOU THANKS FOR BAILING ME OUT THANK YOU LET'S STAY WITH BASEBALL NICK THE NON-COMPETITIVE NATURE OF OUR HOMETOWN BASEBALL TEAM IS CRUSHING FRIENDS OF MINE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED THIS TEAM FOR YEARS HAVE SIMPLY TURNED AWAY I'VE LOST INTEREST THERE'S NO REASON TO GO OUT THERE RIGHT NOW AND IT'S A AT A TIME WHEN THE TEAM SHOULD BE REBOUNDING FROM A POST-WORLD SERIES KIND OF SLUMP THAT EVERYBODY EXPECTED THE TEAM IS ONLY SLUMPING FURTHER NICK IT'S HARD TO WATCH CONGRESS FINALLY PASSED THE PACT ACT WHICH PROVIDES ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR VETERANS WHO SUFFERED TOXIC EXPOSURES FROM BURN PITS THREE SENATORS FROM OUR AREA ROY BLUNT JOSH HAWLEY AND ROGER MARSHALL VOTED FOR THAT BILL IN JUNE AGAINST IT IN JULY AND THEN FOR IT IN AUGUST IF YOU WANT ANY EXPLANATION AS TO WHY PEOPLE HATE WASHINGTON EXACT SAME BILL THAT'S EXACTLY WHY BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN VOTE ON BOTH SIDES OF AN ISSUE AND ALL THREE OF THEM DID AND ON THAT WE WILL SAY OUR WEEK HAS BEEN REVIEWED THANKS TO CHANNEL NINE'S MICHAEL MAHONEY AND THE STARS DAVE HELLING FROM THE KANSAS CITY PBS DIGITAL NEWSROOM FLATLAND MARY SANCHEZ AND KEEPING YOU UP TO DATE WEEKDAYS AT NINE ON KCUR FM STEVE KRASKE WE'RE HEADING INTO OUR MEMBERSHIP DRIVE NEXT WEEK SO WHO KNOWS YOU MAY BE SEEING DO WAP 60S ROCK OR A BRAIN EXPERT INSTEAD OF MY SMILING FACE NEXT WEEK BUT WE WILL SEE YOU RIGHT AFTERWARDS I'M NICK HAINES FROM ALL OF US HERE AT KANSAS CITY PBS BE WELL KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON