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Monday, January 14, 2008
Local Dems change site for caucus
By DAVE SEATON
Winfield Publishing
The location of the Democratic Party's presidential primary caucus has been changed.
The new site is the First Christian Church at East Ninth and Alexander in Winfield.
Democrats in the 32nd Kansas Senate District, which includes Cowley, Sumner and a small part of Sedgwick Counties, will caucus Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m.
Cowley County Democratic chairman Todd Moore confirmed the change Thursday.
While he thought the center was available, Moore said, it turned out Feb. 5 was the evening of the Winfield Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. An alternative site had to be found.
The caucus will be open.
Voters may register, or change their registration, at the site. Moore said the doors would open at 6 p.m. and encouraged voters to come early and be in line ready to caucus by 7.
Republicans in Cowley and Sumner Counties will caucus at the city building in Belle Plaine on Saturday, Feb. 10. The GOP caucus begins at 10 a.m. and is expected to be over about 2 p.m., Sumner County chairman Ray La Boeuf said.
Doors will open at 9:30.
State party rules allow only registered Republicans to vote at GOP caucuses. The deadline for registering is Jan. 25.
In Cowley County, voters may register at the courthouse, Dillons stores, city halls, the county health department or the Arkansas City library, the Cowley County clerk's office said. The Winfield Public Library does not register voters, a spokeswoman said.
In Sumner County voters may register at the courthouse or any city hall, Sumner County clerk Shane Shields said.
Candidates on the Democratic ballot are expected to include Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, John Edwards.
Candidates on the Republican ballot are expected to include Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul.
The Democrats will eventually choose 41 delegates to represent Kansas at their national convention, Matthew Anderson, Democratic state political director, said. Twenty-one of those delegates will be chosen at district conventions April 12.
Anderson said the location of the conventions in each congressional district had not been confirmed, but he speculated the convention in the Fourth District, which includes Cowley and Sumner Counties, would take place in Wichita.
Republicans may nominate themselves as delegates, La Boeuf said.
The winners of the presidential contests at the Feb. 9 caucuses will be announced that evening, Corrie Kangas, state party political director, said.
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