There’s a lot on the Nov. 3 ballot, from a high-profile Senate contest to deciding who will be Prairie Village’s next mayor.
Not to mention 18 judicial retention votes (what’s that, you ask?) and a vote on a constitutional amendment regarding whether only citizens should be allowed to vote in Kansas elections.
As part of our mission each year during election season, the Post gets our readers directly in touch with candidates running to represent them by hosting live, in-person forums.
At these forums, moderator and Post editor Kyle Palmer asks questions based on reader input — from emailed suggestions in the weeks leading up to the forum and from attendees in the room that night.
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This fall, the Post hosted 11 local candidate forums over seven nights, focused on the most local of races — Kansas House, county commission and Prairie Village mayor. (A hoped-for forum for U.S. House candidates, unfortunately, did not materialize.)
For bigger statewide races, Palmer also extended interview invitations to all candidates running for U.S. Senate, governor, secretary of state, attorney general and a Kansas State Board of Education seat. He got 8 responses and did recorded interviews with those candidates.
If seeing candidates in action, answering live questions and responding in real time to readers’ concerns helps you make up your mind at the ballot box, then jump around to the forums and interviews linked below to learn more about the candidates’ positions in the contests that matter most to you.
Candidate forum videos
Click the links below to watch the Post’s fourms for the following races:
- Kansas House Districts 19, 24 and 28, covering much of northeastern Johnson County
- Kansas House Districts 17 and 30, covering parts of Lenexa, Olathe and Shawnee
- Kansas House Districts 18 and 39, covering parts of Lenexa and Shawnee
- Kansas House Districts 15, 117 and 121, covering parts of De Soto, Lenexa, Olathe and Shawnee
- Kansas House Districts 5 and 43, covering parts of Edgerton, Gardner, Olathe and Spring Hill
- Kansas House Districts 15 and 26, covering parts of Olathe and Spring Hill
- Kansas House Districts 8 and 27, covering areas of southern Leawood, Olathe and southern Overland Park
- Kansas House Districts 49 and 78, covering parts of Olathe and southern Overland Park
- Johnson County commission chair
- Johnson County commission (Districts 1 & 5)
- Prairie Village Mayor
Candidate Interviews
Click on the links below to watch Post editor Kyle Palmer’s one-one-one interviews with the following candidates:
- Adam Hamilton, Democrat running for U.S. Senate (Republican Roger Marshall did not respond)
- David Graham, Libertarian running for U.S. Senate
- Cindy Holscher, Democrat running for governor (Republican Ty Masterson did not respond)
- Jennifer Day, Democrat running for Secretary of State
- Scott Morgan, independent United Kansas candidate running for Secretary of State
- Pat Proctor, Republican running for Secretary of State
- Amy Diediker, Democrat running for Kansas State Board of Ed
- Jim McMullen, Republican running for Kansas State Board of Ed
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