From Ballot Access News:
On August 6, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) criticized Greg Orman, the well-funded independent candidate who is running against Roberts. See this story. Most of the time, major party nominees for Governor or U.S. Senator won’t even mention their independent and minor party opponents.
From the article cited, written by John Hanna:
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts sought Wednesday to undercut an independent candidate’s appeal to unaffiliated Kansas voters by declaring that the challenger is a liberal Democrat and pointing to past campaign contributions.
But the independent challenger, Greg Orman, a 44-year-old Olathe businessman, dismissed the 78-year-old, three-term incumbent’s criticism as an “old, tired attack.” He also noted that he’s given far more money to centrist causes, such as the Common Sense Coalition, a nonprofit group he helped form to promote “the sensible center.”
“The criticism from both sides doesn’t surprise me,” Orman said. “We live in a world where most of our politicians only think in terms of red or blue, so everybody has got to be a shade of red or blue.”
http://amthirdpartyreport.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/ivn-independent-greg-orman-now-front-runner-in-u-s-senate-race/
Here is the stale, classic attack from Republicans. If Orman is a liberal by Pat Roberts’ definition, then I think we need to get him a new dictionary.
Is it “liberal” that Orman has founded many successful companies? That’s he’s created and saved jobs right here in Kansas and is the only candidate who’s actually run a business. Is it liberal that Greg supports balanced budgets?
Is it “liberal” that Orman wants to find market-driven solutions to control health care costs or to streamline the tax code and eliminate loopholes? His record and position on the issues makes him a common-sense problem solver who’s fiscally responsible and socially moderate.
Orman’s a businessman who’s built companies, balanced budgets and created jobs that employ many Kansans. Greg started his first business in 1992 and later sold it to Kansas City Power & Light. Since then he’s helped build more than two dozen companies across the country.
Right here in Kansas, Orman has created or helped run multiple businesses, one of which is Combat Brands, a Lenexa-based distributor of sporting apparel that was on the brink of bankruptcy. Greg bought the company and turned it around, and today it has a workforce of 45 that distributes products around the world.
Greg’s fiscally responsible and advocates for a balanced federal budget, streamlining the tax code, unsnarling government regulations and replacing our system of medical malpractice.
Once again, perhaps we need a new definition to the word “liberal”.
Unless you lose the fight. Churchill’s autobiographer, Corelli Barnett, discusses in pointed terms how ‘lose’ might have been arranged. Barnett found a great deal to dislike about how the UK evolved over the last two centuries.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
? Mahatma Gandhi
Roberts had better watch out. He’s already at step two of the trap!