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Todd Tiahrt
Todd Tiahrt was a 2017 Republican special election candidate who sought election to the 4th Congressional District of Kansas.[1]
Tiahrt was a 2014 Republican candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 4th Congressional District of Kansas.[2][3] He was defeated by incumbent Mike Pompeo in the Republican primary on August 5, 2014.[4]
He was a Republican member of the U.S. House representing the 4th District of Kansas from 1995 to 2011. He stepped down from the seat in 2010 to seek the U.S. Senate seat that fellow Jerry Moran ended up winning.[3]
Career
Private sector
After earning his M.B.A. from Missouri State University in 1980, Todd Tiahrt began working at Boeing, where he remained until 1995.[5] After his tenure as a U.S. Representative, in 2012, Tiahrt became a partner with the marketing firm, Paulsen Marketing, in Alexandria, Virginia.[6] At the same time, Tiahrt served as the president and CEO of Todd Tiahrt LLC, a consulting firm specializing in aviation, aerospace, defense, energy, government relations, and municipalities and county governments; Tiahrt remains the CEO and president of Todd Tiahrt as well as another consulting company, Tiahrt Enterprises, which he founded also in 2011.[5][6] In 2013, he became the senior vice president for O'Neill and Associates, a government and public relations firm.[6] That same year, Tiahrt became the CEO of Neumann Systems Group, a technology company based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, leaving the company 2014.[5]
Politics
From 1993 until 1994, Tiahrt served as a Kansas State Senator. The following year, Tiahrt was elected as a U.S. House Representative for the Kansas Fourth District. He retired in 2011, after 16 years as a Representative.[6]
In 2011, Tiahrt was elected as national committeeman for the Kansas Republican Party; he will attend the Republican National Convention in July 2016, as a delegate.[7][8] However, Tiahrt was replaced as national committeeman by State Rep. Mark Kahrs (R) after the convention.[8]
Issues
Investigation
Along with six other members of the House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on defense, which controls Pentagon spending, Tiahrt fell under scrutiny by ethics investigators in fall 2009. Two separate ethics offices examined seven lawmakers who helped steer federal funds to clients of the PMA Group. The lawmakers under scrutiny, John P. Murtha (D-Penn.), Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.), Jim Moran (D-Va.), Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) , Bill Young (R-Fla.) and Tiahrt, also received campaign contributions from the firm and its clients.[9]
Elections
2017
Tiahrt sought election to the 4th Congressional District of Kansas in the 2017 special election.[1][10]
2014
Tiahrt ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Kansas' 4th District.[3] He was defeated by incumbent Mike Pompeo in the Republican primary on August 5, 2014.[4]
He was a Republican member of the U.S. House representing the 4th District of Kansas from 1995 to 2011. He stepped down from the seat in 2010 to seek the U.S. Senate seat that fellow Jerry Moran ended up winning.[3]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mike Pompeo Incumbent |
62.6% | 43,564 | ||
| Todd Tiahrt | 37.4% | 25,977 | ||
| Total Votes | 69,541 | |||
| Source: Kansas Secretary of State |
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Campaign manager
On June 3, 3014, Tiahrt announced Robert Noland as his 2014 campaign manager.[11]
Noland had served as the executive director of the Kansas Family Policy Council since 2010. The group strongly opposes abortion, gay rights and same-sex marriage.[11]
Polls
| Republican primary | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poll | Mike Pompeo (Inc.) | Todd Tiahrt | Undecided | Margin of Error | Sample Size | ||||||||||||||
| CMA Strategies July 21-23, 2014 | 45% | 26% | 29% | +/-4.9 | 400 | ||||||||||||||
| SurveyUSA (dead link) July 17-21, 2014 | 46% | 39% | 16% | +/-4.3 | 900 | ||||||||||||||
| SurveyUSA June 16-18, 2014 | 51% | 34% | 16% | +/-4.3 | 534 | ||||||||||||||
| Note: A "0%" finding means the candidate was not a part of the poll. The polls above may not reflect all polls that have been conducted in this race. Those displayed are a random sampling chosen by Ballotpedia staff. If you would like to nominate another poll for inclusion in the table, send an email to editor@ballotpedia.org | |||||||||||||||||||
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Tiahrt was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kansas.[12] Tiahrt was one of 24 delegates from Kansas bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention. Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates. For more on what happened to his delegates, see this page.
Delegate rules
Kansas district-level delegates were elected at district conventions, while the Kansas Republican State Committee elected at-large delegates at a state convention. All delegates from Kansas to the 2016 Republican National Convention were bound to vote at the convention for the candidate to whom they were allocated and bound unless released by their candidate.
Kansas caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Kansas, 2016
| Kansas Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
|
Ted Cruz |
48.2% | 35,207 | 24 | |
| Donald Trump | 23.3% | 17,062 | 9 | |
| Marco Rubio | 16.7% | 12,189 | 6 | |
| John Kasich | 10.7% | 7,795 | 1 | |
| Other | 1.2% | 863 | 0 | |
| Totals | 73,116 | 40 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Kansas had 40 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 12 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's four congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the district caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the district's delegates.[13][14]
Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[13][14]
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Kansas' 4th Congressional District special election, 2017
- Kansas' 4th Congressional District elections, 2014
- Kansas' 4th Congressional District
- Republican Party of Kansas
- Republican National Convention, 2016
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Wichita Eagle, "Here’s the latest on who’s running for Pompeo’s seat in Congress," January 24, 2017
- ↑ Kansas City Star, "Todd Tiahrt will run for his old seat in Congress," accessed May 31, 2014 (dead link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Washington Post, "Want to see a nasty GOP House primary? Oh, it’s just getting started in Kansas," accessed May 31, 2014
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Associated Press, "Primary Results 2014," accessed August 5, 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Todd Tiahrt LLC., "Todd Tiahrt," accessed May 16, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Linked In, "Todd Tiahrt," accessed May 16, 2016
- ↑ GOP, "Todd Tiahrt," accessed May 16, 2016
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lawrence Journal World, "Kansas Republicans elect delegates but struggle to unite behind Trump," May 14, 2016
- ↑ 7 on defense panel scrutinized, Washington Post, October 30, 2009
- ↑ KWCH 12, "Ron Estes nominated as GOP candidate for 4th district seat," February 9, 2017
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 KAKE, "Tiahrt names campaign chief for race in Kansas 4th," accessed June 5, 2014
- ↑ Kansas GOP, "State convention elects national convention delegates," accessed June 30, 2016
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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