Kansas
- ACTION: Kansas Equality Coalition is asking for calls to state senators supporting Senate substitute for HB 2079 before 2 p.m. Monday. State senators’ phone numbers are published here. The bill, previously SB 563, would close a loophole in judicial election campaign finance rules, helping keep Kansas’s courts nonpartisan and reducing anti-LGBT attack ads like the one we saw last week.
- STICKY: KEC meeting to organize a northwest Kansas chapter has been rescheduled for Apr. 10.
- STICKY: After the loss of local activist Steve Brown, KEC’s northeast Kansas chapter will reorganize at a meeting on Mar. 27.
- The University Daily Kansan profiles Lawrence’s LGBT bar scene.
- Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Cal., is still preparing for a Westboro Baptist Church picket.
Nearby
- Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and, surprisingly, Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are among cosponsors of S. Res. 409, which asks Uganda’s parliament to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The House equivalent, H. Res. 1064, is consponsored only by gay Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) among the region’s congressmembers. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold hearings on each this week.
- Seven Republican candidates for Missouri’s 7th congressional district discussed their platforms. Mike Moon and Gary Nodler opposed same-sex marriage. One Democrat, Tim Davis of Branson, has filed to run.
- Oklahoma state senator Steve Russell promises to rewrite a bill many fear would effectively exempt Oklahoma from the Matthew Shepard Act federal hate crimes bill.
- Public News Service reports on PROMO’s annual state legislature lobby day this week.
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