Kansas Needs Republicans Who Know How to Fight and Win

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Posted: May 12, 2022 12:01 AM
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Kansas has paid a heavy price since losing the Governor’s Mansion in 2018. But, with conservative leadership that knows how to fight and win, we’ve begun to take back our state.
I’m a lifelong Kansan, a wife, a proud mom of four kids, a conservative attorney, and a citizen legislator. Prior to 2018, I’d never run for office — but I decided to step up because our Kansas House representative was a liberal incumbent who claimed to be a “Republican,” and it needed to change.
After I dropped my kids off at school, I knocked on every door in the district and won the race.
I stepped up again in 2020, because another status quo Republican was the state Senator representing our district. The district itself has a history of voting Democrat in November. As a result, the so-called “experts” told me a conservative couldn’t win. I didn’t listen to the experts but to the grassroots. I defeated the incumbent, ran in November as