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Wichita Eagle Editor Dion Lefler says a Republican financial bundler is heading off to Washington to slurp up some pubic cash after spending much of his recent career blasting public employees.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter years of railing against the Deep State, former Kansas Republican Party Chairman Mike Brown is now up to his eyeballs in the swamp Donald Trump keeps promising to drain,\u201d said Lefler. \u201cIn a shameless act of political patronage by the Trump Administration, Brown has been appointed as the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Treasury.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the bureau responsible for the design, print and circulation of the nation\u2019s paper money, and Lefler said Brown will get to oversee the agency putting the \u201cgaudy signature of you-know-who” on our currency, despite a law against putting a living president\u2019s face on U.S. legal tender.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was laughing out loud as I read a congratulatory message on Facebook from the Kansas Republican Party, which basically kicked Brown to the curb after two years of his obnoxious and paranoid tenure as party chairman,\u201d said Lefler, pointing out that Brown was \u201can election conspiracy theorist from the get-go\u201d who lost his seat on the Johnson County Commission in 2020 before barely snagging the job of Kansas GOP chairman in 2023.<\/p>\n

But his time as chair was marred by his failed power grab of removing state office holders, members of Congress and representatives of Black, Latino and women\u2019s GOP groups from party committees. Brown also accused his predecessor of stalking him and his wife because the man kept \u201cshowing up to the same Republican events as the Browns\u201d\u2014 which generally happens with two Republican Party leaders making their rounds.<\/p>\n

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But lefler has his own issue with Brown, having outed him in 2024 as Donald Trump campaign contribution Bundler #2024027 and for \u201ctaking personal credit for contributions that Kansas Republicans made to Trump\u2019s presidential campaign via the state party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that column, I likened it to you paying for a flight and Brown getting your frequent-flyer miles,\u201d said Lefler. Even then, Lefler pointed out that \u201cbundlers are a special class of political donors who raise large sums of campaign cash through their business and personal connections, for which they are often rewarded with cushy administration jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, sure enough, Brown is now headed off to Washington, D.C., to a job that paid his predecessor $200k a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time, Brown swore that his only reward would be the satisfaction of helping Trump get elected to a second term,\u201d said Lefler.<\/p>\n

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