Kobach Bends To Pressure, Will Recuse Himself From Kansas Recount

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After a week of escalating pressure, miscounted votes and public calls to step aside, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will formally recuse himself from the recount in the extremely tight primary between himself and Gov. John Colyer (R).

“We’ll be formally answering [Colyer’s] request tomorrow. But I’ll give you a heads-up. Yes, I’ll be happy to recuse myself,” he said to CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “But as I say, it really doesn’t make any difference. My office doesn’t count the votes. The counties do.”

Kobach has been maintaining that his role would largely divorce him from the counting proceedings and that recusal is unnecessary, but he is in charge of setting the price if Colyer asks for a recount, putting him in an ethically murky situation.

In addition, Colyer wrote a letter demanding that Kobach remove himself from the situation and accusing him of behaving in ways “inconsistent with Kansas law,” a call that got louder when a mistaken tabulation was discovered that cut Kobach’s lead over Colyer lead in half.

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  1. “Yes, I’ll be happy to recuse myself.”

    See, that wasn’t so hard, was it?

    (Or was it?)

  2. Kobach should be known by his original instincts, i.e. to NOT recuse himself. It reveals everything you need to know about him.

  3. He only bends to “pressure”, never to his own moral compass (he doesn’t have one). His initial stance is his real belief. He’s a slime ball and a cheat and has had his legal ass handed to him over and over in his desperate, unconstitutional attempt to disenfranchise Democratic voters.

  4. Still waiting for the media to show the public the corporations and private companies where Kobach is on the board of directors. If you think NY’s Chris Collins is corrupt and breaking the law with insider trading and rigging tax payer funded subsidies to enrich himself…then you need to see Kobach’s secret business activities. Kobach is in the same corruption bal park as Trump…and arguable worse. Kobach is secretly on the Board at Koch Industries and a beneficiary of 6 digit income from that involvement…he’s using similar techniques to avoid disclosing these interest and to avoid paying taxes as Paul Manafort. Kobach should be in prison with Manafort, Cohen, Trump, Roger Stone, and Trump’s 2 grease ball sons.

  5. “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”

    Attributed to Joseph Stalin by Boris Bazhanov, Personal Secretary to Joseph Stalin

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