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“Politics is not beanbag, and it gets even worse to some degree when you get into a primary and hand grenades (are lobbed) because it’s a family affair, and so anytime you have family squabble it has a megaphone effect,” Roberts said in an interview with The Hill.
According to several sources close to both Tiahrt and Moran, the two politicians have never been particularly close friends.
With major gains to make before the Aug. 3 primary voting day, Tiahrt is not likely to relent on his attacks of Moran, longtime Kansas University political science professor Burdett “Bird” Loomis said.
“Tiahrt reflects this kind of a bare-knuckles, pretty nasty social conservatism that is certainly a substantial part of Kansas politics,” Loomis said.... Read more of the blood feud at The Hill
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