Huelskamp Has Ag Dreams Again Now Boehner is Leaving September 25, 2015

(AP) – Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp hopes to eventually regain a seat on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee now that Speaker John Boehner has announced plans to resign.
But Huelskamp said Friday that he’s focusing first on fellow Republicans picking a replacement for Boehner. Huelskamp clashed with the Ohio Republican, and Boehner stripped him of an Agriculture Committee seat late in 2012.
Huelskamp said Republicans need new leaders and that voters are tired of the political establishment. The western Kansas congressman said GOP House members returned to Washington after their latest recess tired of defending Boehner back home.
Other Kansas Republicans were complimentary of Boehner, including former presidential nominee and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Dole said Boehner had been plagued by, in his words, a group of Republican naysayers.

Huelskamp On List for Homeland Funding Pressure March 2, 2015

Politico:
An outside group aligned with House GOP leadership will spend $400,000 this week to urge dozens of conservative House Republicans to vote for Department of Homeland Security funding — a new and more aggressive phase in the legislative battle among Republicans that’s consuming Capitol Hill.

The nonprofit American Action Network is airing an ad in three states — Kansas, Oklahoma and Ohio — urging Reps. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to back funding for the anti-terrorism agency. The 30-second spot will run at least 50 times in each district — on broadcast, in prime slots — Tuesday and Wednesday as the House is expected to take up a DHS funding bill.

The group says the ad campaign, which also includes radio ads on nationally syndicated shows and digital ads in dozens of other districts represented by House conservatives, is the opening salvo of a larger effort to help Republican leaders pass center-right legislation. American Action Network says it will spend millions of dollars to contact voters in the coming months. The move appears designed to give Boehner cover to end the months-long impasse over homeland security funding.

Remington Poll; Huelskamp Up Big in Ks-1 October 31, 2014

A new poll shows Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp ( Ks-1) with a huge lead over his Democratic opponent, Jim Sherow.
A survey from the Kansas City based Remington Research Group, which is a wing of consultant Jeff Rose’s Axiom Strategies agency, give Huelskamp a 25 point leads over Sherow.
The survey has Huelskamp leading 59%-34%.
A new release says Remington polled the race after a news article in the Daily Kos reported Huelskampt was down seven points to the Democrat.
The Kansas 1st, known as ‘ The Big First’, since it covers the western half of the state, has been a reliably Republican district for years.
Titus Bond of Remington says the survey was conducted in the middle of this week, using 485 likely 1st Congressional District voters. The margin of error is 4.4%.
Huelskamp has had rocky term. He was kicked off the House Agriculture Committee after sparring with House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership.

GOP Mods Group Endorses KS-1 Dem September 9, 2014

(AP) – A group formed by former moderate Republican legislators is backing the Democratic nominee in the 1st Congressional District of Kansas over conservative GOP incumbent Tim Huelskamp.

Democrat Jim Sherow had a Statehouse news conference Tuesday to announce his endorsement by Traditional Republicans for Common Sense in the sprawling central and western Kansas district.

The group’s founders include dozens of former GOP state legislators. Former state Rep. Jim Yonally of Overland Park said the group opposes Huelskamp’s re-election partly because his conflicts with U.S. House Speaker John Boehner led to Huelskamp’s removal from the Agriculture Committee in 2012.

Huelskamp is seeking his third, two-year term. His spokesman, Mark Kelly, dismissed Sherow’s news conference as political theater.

The 63-year-old Sherow is a Kansas State University history professor and former Manhattan mayor.

KC PAC Gives in Huelskamp Primary in West Kansas July 22, 2014

(AP) – A conservative Republican super PAC seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp is spending more than $108,500 in the Republican primary race for the sprawling 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas.

A filing with the Federal Elections Commission Monday shows the Now or Never PAC out of Kansas City, Missouri, is putting money into mailers and other advertising against him.

Huelskamp is a tea party favorite known for his criticism of the GOP leadership in Washington. He is seeking a third two-year term.

He is challenged in the GOP primary by Alan LaPolice, a Clyde farmer and educator.

The PAC money is the latest blow to Huelskamp’s re-election bid to this agricultural district. The Kansas Farm Bureau and the Kansas Livestock Association have also refused to endorse him.