Well it is official now --- US Senator Sam Brownback (Republican-Kansas) has announced that he is seeking the Republican Party's nomination for President of the USA in the 2008 election. Senator Brownback is known as a solid social conservative but does not have a high profile among general American voters:
http://brownback.senate.gov/
During his career Senator Brownback has been a radio broadcaster, attorney, teacher, administrator, and US Congressman. Senator Brownback and his wife Mary --the former Mary Stauffer, heiress to a Topeka newspaper fortune -- have five children.
Mrs. Brownback's family newspaper is noted below courtesy of the Wikipedia service:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stauffer_Communications
Oscar Stauffer founded Stauffer Publications. This later become known as Stauffer Communications and was set up to oversee Stauffer newspapers and broadcasting in Topeka, Kansas, from 1977 to 1995, In 1957, Stauffer Publications, owner of the Topeka State Journal, bought WIBW-AM-FM-TV which remained the flagships of Stauffer until 1995. It then merged with Morris Communications Corporation of Augusta, Georgia. As a condition of the sale, Morris had to sell Stauffer's television holdings. Most of the former Stauffer television holdings, including WIBW-TV, were sold to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996. Stauffer Communications was bought for US$275m, and Morris sold off all of Stauffer magazines, TV stations, insurance and alarm operations.
It looks like the Senator might have some personal wealth to keep his candidacy alive if the political contributions don't come in right away.
The (wheat) field of candidates for president grows,
Todd
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