Cindy Holscher

It is not Donald Trump, but it is a Republican.

It's a Republican candidate for governor in Kansas, Ty Masterson, and he was speaking in, in a church in Wichita, speaking about his opponent, [laughs] Democrat Cindy Holscher, and accusing her of being an actual witch.

Wow, make, make Salem great again.

Yeah.

Witch hunts are back in vogue with Kansas Republicans, literally.

Ty Masterson, the Republican candidate in the Kansas gubernatorial race, accused his Democratic opponent, Cindy Holscher, of being an actual witch capable of demonic magic while speaking at the Praise Chapel in Wichita on Sunday.

Masterson introduced the dubious portion of his pseudo sermon by suggesting that God wanted him to run for Kansas' top political office.

I could go on with this article.

Uh, I just wanna know what the pushback is because I don't want this to be a success story.

I want this to be a glorious failure story for the Republicans.

Well, Bo, Bo French's opponent is Jewish and a man named John Rosenthal.

And, um-

I mean, if you...

You know, one of the things that the two gubernatorial candidates in Kansas, Cindy Holscher and Ty Masterson, disagree on is the ownership of the Chiefs stadium.

It's going to be owned by a state entity, a, uh, a entity that Ty Masterson, the Kansas State Senate president, supported, while Cindy Holscher voted against it.

Both of those candidates are state senators in the 40-member body in Topeka, and Cindy Holscher has made a bit of an issue out of the ownership of the Kansas, uh, Sports Facilities Authority or the Chiefs' new stadium, and, and she's against that, that plan.

Um, I am kinda surprised that the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, David Tolan, also a Democrat, released that, um, map this week and not after the November election.

Yeah, I...

Do you have any thoughts on that?

Well, I, I would just say that I was kind of surprised that the district came out now.

And then just anecdotally, if you watch any TV, you watch a ball game, you watch anything, you can see way more time Asterson ads.

I don't know if I've seen a Cindy Holscher ad just watching TV.

And those are the things that I'm noticing that are the differences between the candidates and why you have such a difference in the polling where Holscher is down around four or five points in the in two of the major polls, the New York Times-Siena poll and the Amerson-Nextar poll that we've seen over the last month or so.

Which

We know that incumbent Governor Laura Kelly didn't endorse Cindy Holsher in the primary.

She endorsed the opponent, Ethan Corson.

And seemed at first a little slow to come around to supporting Cindy Holscher, even in the general, but she is now campaigning for her.

Does that seem to be making a difference?

And that after the election, there may be some attempt to revisit at least some of its terms, draw a different district, maybe bigger, to, to gather more revenue.

And the other thing is, and I'd, I'd be fascinated to hear your view on this, it hasn't really been an issue in the governor's race, has it? You know, you would think that just given the, the way people reacted to the Chiefs deal, that Cindy Holscher would have made more of it, but she hasn't.

And of course, Ty Masterson hasn't talked about it too much, which may reflect how much Kansas is in the, in the bag for this agreement.

I don't know.

You, you, you may have a different view of that.

Well, I mean, what can Cindy Holscher do? She voted for the, she voted for the bill-

Right

... to create this STAR Bond district for either of these teams when that sports bill passed in what? 2024.