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| I have been communicating with you, some for years and some for months, and it came to me that I have never introduced myself. So as a pro-life follow up on last weeks “When Did You Begin” poem and my long overdue introduction, buckle up for this week’s column:
In the late summer of 1864 at the age of 16, my great-great grandfather, Melvin Fairchild, enlisted in the Union Army to fight against the horror in our great nation, slavery. August 13, 1837 at the Spring Creek camp meeting (attended by Abraham Lincoln) Pastor Peter Akers prophesied in his 3-hour sermon, that the scourge of slavery would tear our nation asunder, so it had. And the bane of slavery touched the life of my then 16-year-old great-great grandfather Fairchild. We now stand facing another unspeakable horror, the great scourge of our nation: abortion, staining all of us again with blood, the blood of the most innocent, a child in the womb of its mother. I know, oh here we go, getting into other peoples’ business, moralizing on her pro-life soap-box. But, as in last week’s column going back one second at a time, there is no other response other than at conception that can be given as to when each of OUR lives began.
These are our current facts: in 2024 there were 19,811 reported abortions in Kansas. 15,048 out of state and 35 abortions (28 out of state) on girls ages 10-14. NOT ONE of these under age abortions were reported for investigation. Is Kansas complicit with the child sex trafficking trade? Will we turn our back on these girls and leave them defenseless? These current numbers have been brought to you by OUR liberal Kansas Supreme Court by overturning all of the hard-fought pro-life legislation of the last 15 years.
My O’Hara grandparents (great and great-great) are also part of why I am running for governor of the great State of Kansas. I want to prove that their decisions to leave Ireland and later Canada to come to Kansas in 1869 were based on a true vision of success and protection of high moral values. Never would they have dreamed Kansas would become the Killing Fields for an abortion mill called Planned Parenthood. And yes, I am a country girl and I thought I would stay on the farm, but God had other plans for me.
I graduated from KU (not to worry my oldest son and daughter graduated from K-State in Engineering). I was a general contractor for over 20 years, homeschooled my two youngest and currently, with my two sons, have a small manufacturing company in Olathe. I am most blest to have 5 children and 7 grandchildren. When serving as a Johnson County Commissioner during COVID, I refused to wear a mask, refused the jab and said NO to the closing of schools and businesses. In 2022 I firmly refused to back away from my KFL pledge (honored to have KFL endorsements since 1994) to support life as I ran for Johnson County Commission Chairwoman. This was during the most difficult loss of the Value them Both Amendment. Standing strong for LIFE is part of who I am.
I am a tried-and-true conservative devoted to our foundational principles in a vast sea of RINOs in the Republican Party. However, what a bright spot of leadership we have with our AG, Kris Kobach, leading the fight for the constitutional amendment (August 4th ballot) for direct election of our Kansas Supreme Court Justices. The Kansas Bar Association too long has held an iron clad fist of control on our supreme court, a court which found in our 1859 State Constitution the right of abortion. That’s my story. But why now run for governor? Because, none of the other candidates are strong, proven conservatives. I cannot stand silent and allow Kansas to continue to run amok as the high tax point on the prairie and the abortion capital of the prairie. If you want a conservative governor, vote for me. If you want a middle of the roader who will continue the status quo, there is a long list of other gubernatorial candidates. I appreciate your loyal reading of my columns and I will continue to bring issues to you which impact you and your families’ lives. Next week’s column will be on SB 98 passed in 2025, data centers’ 20-year sales tax exemption goody package, brought to you by OUR Republican SUPER MAJORITY!!!! God Bless, |
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
The road to where we are in Kansas as the abortion capital on the prairie has been a long torturous road as hundreds of thousands (450,000-500,000 KDHE) of babies have been lost to abortion in Kansas since Roe vs. Wade.
Every life is a gift from God, endowed with dignity, value and worth from conception to natural death. That is why I am standing for truth and I am in the fight, as was my great-great grandfather Fairchild, to save our nation from a great scourge in this our time, abortion.
Raised in Bourbon County, in Irish Valley, I learned many skills while milking by hand; driving wheat trucks to Uniontown, Bronson or Hammond; watching Mom keep the farm’s books and going to the sale barn with Dad in Ft. Scott.
I have served on the Johnson County Commission, in the Kansas House, as the Republican Chairwoman for the 3rdDistrict and as a Republican precinct committeewoman.
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I am honored to be running for re-election as Johnson County District 3 Commissioner, and I am committed to continuing to serve our entire community with integrity, dedication, passion and faith. I have consistently advocated for the interests of “We The People.”
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