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Assessing Political Landscape in Kansas: Just How Is It Out There on Campaign Trail?

By Jim McLean
Published May 19, 2016 at 3:49 PM CDT
This seal of the great State of Kansas is part of the carpet inside the governor's ceremonial office at the Kansas Statehouse. (Photo by Dan Skinner)
This seal of the great State of Kansas is part of the carpet inside the governor's ceremonial office at the Kansas Statehouse. (Photo by Dan Skinner)

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback was forced to cut nearly $100 million in spending to balance the state budget. Voters upset about the cuts announced Wednesday can’t take it out on Brownback -- he’s not on the ballot this year. But lawmakers who have supported the governor’s policies are on the ballot. And, as Jim McLean found out, for some... the campaign trail is looking a little rough.

Jim McLean is a reporter for the KHI News Service. The KHI News Service, along with Kansas Public Radio and others, are partners in a statewide collaboration covering Kansas elections this year.
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Jim McLean, Executive Editor of KHI News Service, oversees the KHI News Service. From 2005 until 2013, McLean coordinated all communications activities at KHI as Vice President for Public Affairs. The position he now occupies was created as part of a strategic initiative to solidify the editorial and operational independence of the KHI News Service. Prior to coming to KHI, McLean had a distinguished career as a journalist, serving as the news director and Statehouse bureau chief for Kansas Public Radio and a managing editor for the Topeka Capital-Journal. During his more than 20 years in Kansas journalism, McLean won numerous awards for journalistic excellence from the Kansas Press Association, regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 1997, McLean and two Capital-Journal colleagues received the Burton W. Marvin News Enterprise Award from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism for a series of stories on the state’s business climate. McLean holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washburn University.
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