Kansas: Kobach's "anti-illegal-immigration" drive is really a get-rich scam for Kobach

[DFW]

https://www.alternet.org/heres-how-kris-kobachs-anti-immigration-crusade-cost-kansans-money-while-simultaneously-lining-his

I knew this guy was a fraud all along, but I didn't know he had been setting up a franchise to put money in his pocket by convincing small towns, both in and outside of Kansas, to pay him for useless "legal" work.

What a sleaze bag. No wonder Kansas Republicans like him. Let's hope Kansans voting for their next governor do not.

[MojoWrkn]

1. Just say NO to KKKobach!

[dalton99a]

2. Excellent expose - No wonder Trump likes him

[DFW]

3. Birds of a feather

And do they EVER flock together!

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R

[jayschool2013]

5. Links to the real journalism, not Alternet

This story was reported by the Kansas City Star and ProPublica.

Alternet credited the real journalists, so we should go to their sites to help them, not just Alternet, which literally did no reporting on this.

Support real investigative journalism.

[DFW]

7. I took the Alternet site as an adequate compilation

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My dad, Columbia Journalism '47, was president of the Gridiron Club of Washington, worked for 50 years in the National Press Building one floor below the National Press Club (of which he was member the whole time), and was a winner of the Thomas L. Stokes award for environmental reporting. I know what investigative journalism is.

[jayschool2013]

9. I, too, am an investigative journalist

Thanks for your perspective. I think it's important to give clicks to the original sources, and thus help fund the work they do. That was my only point.

I went to a public university. Two of 'em, in fact. And I've taught journalism at public universities exclusively.

I've worked with people from Columbia. They can't help but bring it up. Must be part of the curriculum.

[Sunlei]

6. anyone know the 'for profit' concentration camps Stock name? I bet value skyrockets.

ALL taxpayers federal & state billions pour into 'for profit' prison pockets

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Kick

[Gothmog]

10. Kris Kobach Grifted A Bunch Of Racists, And It Is Hilarious!

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

11. Kris Kobach's Lucrative Trail of Courtroom Defeats

Kobach has been scamming racist gop idiots https://www.propublica.org/article/kris-kobachs-lucrative-trail-of-courtroom-defeats

“This sounds a little bit to me like Harold Hill in ‘The Music Man,’” said Larry Dessem, a law professor at the University of Missouri who focuses on legal ethics. “Got a problem here in River City and we can solve it if you buy the band instruments from me. He is selling something that goes well beyond legal services.”

Kobach rode the attention the cases generated to political prominence, first as Kansas secretary of state, and now as a candidate for governor in the Republican primary on Aug. 7. He also earned more than $800,000 for his immigration work, paid by both towns and an advocacy group, over 13 years.

Kobach’s recent legal struggles have been widely reported. In June, a federal judge handed him a sweeping courtroom defeat, overturning a Kansas law that required proof of citizenship to register to vote. The judge went so far as to order him to attend six hours of continuing legal education after he repeatedly botched basic courtroom procedure. Another recent Kobach endeavor, a federal commission aimed at combating voter fraud, which he co-chaired, shut down after a bevy of lawsuits challenged it.

But Kobach’s failures in the courtroom date back far longer. An investigation by ProPublica and the Kansas City Star shows that the towns Kobach represented — small, largely white municipalities overwhelmed by real or perceived demographic shifts — were swayed by Kobach’s message: An ordinance would solve their problem and could be easily defended in court. Based on public records requests, filed in June with the towns that Kobach represented, this article for the first time details the costs to municipalities and the payments to Kobach for his lengthy local legal campaigns.