75¢ COLBY Wednesday November 3, 2010 Volume 121, Number 171 Serving Thomas County since 1888 8 pages FFREEREE PPRESSRESS Republicans make clean sweep By Kevin Bottrell other way around.” 1,833 votes to 563. Colby Free Press Republican Jerry Moran, who has represent- Attorney General Steve Six lost the closest
[email protected] ed the Big 1st District of western Kansas in of the three races to challenger Derek Schmidt, Congress for more than a decade, won a seat in 453,558 votes to 341,973. In Thomas County, The polls are closed, the results are in, and the U.S. Senate with 70 percent of the vote. In Six lost 1,799 to 646. the Kansas Republican Party had exactly the Thomas County, he got 2,261 votes to Demo- Challenger Ron Estes beat state Treasurer big a night everyone had predicted. crat Lisa Johnston’s 218. Dennis McKinney, 58 percent to 42. Here he Republican Sen. Sam Brownback and run- Republican state Sen. Tim Huelskamp was got 1,696 votes to McKinney’s 753 here. ning mate Jeff Colyer handily won the gover- elected to the U.S. House of Representatives Unopposed incumbent Sandy Praeger, a vet- norship with 522,061 votes to Democrat state with 74 percent of the vote over Democrat eran Republican, got 2,228 votes for insurance Sen. Tom Holland’s 264,067, roughly 66 per- Alan Jilka, former mayor of Salina. In Thomas commissioner in Thomas County and Sally cent to 34 percent. In Thomas County, Brown- County, he got 2,016 votes to Jilka’s 444.