Benjamin Hodge writes at RedCounty.com:

A few big-government Republicans are attempting to hand-pick former Kansas Senator Nick Jordan as the Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District.

Nick Jordan, who was a state senator through the end of 2008, lost his senate district to incumbent Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore. But conservative Republican Mary Pilcher Cook won that state senate race against her Democratic opponent — and relatively easily (about 55% of the vote) — in a very tough year for Republicans in Johnson County. There are seven senate districts in Johnson County, and forty districts in total across the state.

Senator Pilcher Cook has endorsed former State Representative Patricia Lightner over former Sen. Nick Jordan in the August 2010 Republican primary.

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