Month: October 2018

BPU to meet today

The Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities will meet at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the BPU offices, first floor conference room, 540 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.

The regular session will follow at 6 p.m.

On the agenda for the work session are a board update, general manager update, executive search discussion and a fuel and purchase power report.

On the agenda for the regular session are a visitors’ time, preventive maintenance at Nearman water report, August financial report, board comments and general manager comments.

The BPU’s Finance Committee will meet at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday at the board room at the BPU offices, 540 Minnesota Ave.

Get-out-the-vote event planned Oct. 6

A get-out-the-vote event is planned from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at Juniper Gardens, 1980 N. 2nd St., Kansas City, Kansas.

Voter information will be provided at the event. Also, the event will feature music and food.

Those attending may fill out voter registration forms, sign up for free rides to the polls, and receive information about polling places, early voting and candidates.

There will be no admission charge.

The “No Vote, No Voice” get-out-the-vote event is sponsored by Unity with Purpose, Community Action Network, in collaboration with More Squared, the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County and the Historic Northeast Midtown Association.

Davids scores fundraising win against Yoder

by Sam Zeff, Kansas News Service

Democrat Sharice Davids walloped incumbent Rep. Kevin Yoder in fundraising last quarter.

The Davids’ campaign says the first time candidate raised $2.7 million between July and September. In that same period Yoder, running for a fifth term in the Kansas 3rd District, raised almost $1.3 million.

Yoder’s campaign charged that most of the challenger’s money comes from outside Kansas. It pointed to a story on Axios.com that showed only about 30 percent of Davids’ individual contributions came from within Kansas. However, that is based on last quarter’s Federal Election Commission finance report.

“Sharice has been completely non-existent in the district because she’s raising liberal money around the country,” Yoder spokesman C.J. Grover said in a statement. “She’s skipped important local events for swanky New York fundraisers,” referring to an event at the Stonewall Inn last month.

Davids responded by saying “momentum continues to build” for her campaign. “So many people have made small-dollar investments in this campaign because they know I’ll work for Kansas families, unlike Congressman Kevin Yoder, who looks out for his special interest donors,” Davids said in a statement to KCUR.

Davids has been on a bit of a roll the last two weeks. Over the weekend, the National Republican Congressional Committee reportedly pulled a million dollars in advertising support from Yoder, Inside Elections moved the race to “tilt Democratic” and a New York Times poll has Davids up by eight points.

New FEC reports are due on Oct. 15.

Sam Zeff is KCUR’s metro reporter. You can follow Sam on Twitter @samzeff.
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