Danedri Herbert
Danedri Herbert
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Danedri Herbert once won $50 for being the most average person at a Rotary Club Camp. Today, she is still the picture of average and is even listed in the book, "The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the nation's most ordinary citizen."
Her very American childhood was the picture of commonality. Her father wore a suit and tie to work, and her mother worked from home. They could've been the poster family for "Leave it to Beaver" except her mother never wore high heels around the house, and her father is black.
A Kansas State University graduate, Danedri's columns have appeared in the The Kansas City Star, The Hutchinson News and she currently works as a reporter for The Gardner News.
She lives in Olathe with her husband Joe and a deaf dog, Keller.
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Lightner, it is.
It’s never smart to mix drinking and voting, but choosing between the nine candidates available in the Kansas Republican primary for Rep. Dennis Moore’s seat in Congress, I have a feeling I’ll need a nip before I step into the ballot box.
I’m going to vote for Patricia Lightner, but I’m not happy about it.
For weeks, conservative political activists have been preaching...
Where in the world is Kansas Jackass?
Where in the world is Kansas Jackass?
Many of the politically astute in Kansas regularly followed a blog – Kansas Jackass. Jason Croucher published Kansas Jackass, a blog closely covering Kansas politics from the far, far, crazy left. His reach and audience were growing. He’d recently added correspondents and others from the crazy wing of the Democratic Party to feed the site. And then it vanished.
I often envisioned him leading a pack of mindless liberal...
Moran, Tiahrt... let's call the whole thing off
Contrary to their campaign literature, there appears to be little light between Rep. Todd Tiahrt and Rep. Jerry Moran. The two are vying to replace Sen. Sam Brownback in the U.S. Senate and throwing barbs at one another through press releases, commercials and twitter feeds.
Judging from the debate they’re waging in the media – they...
NRCC sends out the call for funds... are they joking?
The joke is on you if you answer the National Republican Congressional Committee's call to arms today and donate to them. On a day when everyone who ever sent a dime to the NRSC or the NRCC should be hanging their heads in shame with Charlie Crist's decision to run as an independent, the NRCC sent me an email asking for money.
They have a LOT of nerve. These are the party insiders who threw money at Dede Scozzafaza in NY-23 last year. When she withdrew from the race -- as she...
Jordan out of 3rd District race
Nick Jordan is out of the race for the Third District U.S. Congress seat.
"Yet with so many candidates in the Republican primary for the U.S. House of Representatives, I fear we could provide an opening for our liberal congressman’s liberal wife to sneak into office in his place.With that in mind, Linda and I have decided to end our campaign at this time with deep gratitude for the prayers, support, and encouragement people have so graciously offered the last three years...
A Pep Talk for Conservatives
One crazy. 5,000-plus normal people. That’s who I met at the Kansas City Tea Party at Community American Ballpark in Kansas City, Kan.
I didn’t see a single offensive sign. I didn’t hear a single offensive word. Not one.
I arrived and left early -- before the main event, so I’m certain my numbers are waaay low. Tea party activists tend to have jobs, and I left the party by 5:15 p.m., about the time the numbers were beginning to swell.
Of the...
Ron Paul nearly tied with President Obama in poll
Election 2012: Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41% per Rasmussen.
This.is.awesome. Who says there's no hope!
Moore is running
Stephene Moore, that is. The wife of failed Pelosi-voting Rep. Dennis Moore will run to replace her husband in the U.S. Congress. Are Republicans supposed to be frightened? I almost feel sorry for the blue team.
Government expansion isn't a field of dreams
Just because you build it, that doesn't mean they'll come.
My column for the Gardner News.
You should be noticing a common theme here: Governments spending money they don’t have to build things that aren’t necessary based on projections that aren’t panning out. This isn’t...
Private Sector chains grow heavy
America is quickly becoming a country of haves and have nots.
The divide isn’t simple class warfare between those with money and those without, it’s a divide between those on the government dole and those of us too stupid to get jobs as bureaucrats.
USA Today reported on Dec. 11 that the average federal employee’s annual salary is $71,206 compared with $40,331 in the private sector.
This is unsustainable in the long term. It’s probably...