Lopez had moved into her current southwest Wichita home in February (she had previously been living in northwest Sedgwick County, where she had been a precinct committeewoman for the suburb of Kechi). Whipple Overtakes Longwell To Become Wichita's Next Mayor. in and superior to Sedgwick County, Kansas (Wichita and surroundings), Pat Roberts The primary whittled down a field of several mayoral candidates (including a prominent corporate leader and education activist) to "Could a Democrat win the Kansas governor’s race? The DAB "repesentatives" while pretending to "represent" their neighborhood, actually represent the City Council member who appointed them. Sam Brownback’s tax-cut policy" & several other newspapers and broadcasters in the Wichita area -- and across the nation. 2018-08-07 Return to LOCAL GOVERNMENT menu Democrat Brian "Bam" McClendon -- a former Kansan, recently returned from a successful career as a computer industry tycoon in California's "Silicon Valley" -- received 44% of the vote. They are summarized in these topic sections below: NOTE: Additional venues in local government and politics are noted in the separate section below. The strongest ruling came in 2016, from the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that a Kobach bill to restrict voter registration in state elections — by requiring voters to fill out a different state voter registration form, to vote on state officials, than for federal elections — was mostly illegal. See the table of preliminary election returns, and the linked articles below, for details. In two more years, elections will be held for the other districts. In 2007, authorities removed O'Donnell from the ballot in a Wichita City Council race, because he was not a proper resident of his claimed district. And Governor Colyer had to do that, recently (mid-2016), to resolve a school-funding crisis of his own making, which resulted in a Kansas Supreme Court threat to shut down all public schools. Governor Sam Brownback's "Kansas Experiment" is officially over. "Former Sedgwick County commissioner Skelton files independent bid to regain office" [against incumbent Jim Howell]. In fact, absentee landords are often welcome at the meetings, even made members (and, in some cases, officers) of assocations for neighborhoods in which they don't even live, but have property. Eagle, "Endorsement guide: See who’s backing the Kansas governor candidates." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning President Donald Trump’s fitness to serve, announcing legislation that would create a commission to allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment and remove the president from executive duties. Feb 24, 2017, The Atlantic, UPDATE: June 2017: