Kansas Democrats accuse Yoder, dark money group of meddling in primary

WASHINGTON -- “We don’t need more Obama-Sanders progressives.”

That’s a line in a new ad branding Democratic congressional candidate Brent Welder as “too progressive for Kansas” — an ad paid for by a dark-money nonprofit tied to billionaire Joe Ricketts, whose group Ending Spending has spent about $2 million this election cycle backing Republicans.

The ad began airing Friday in the Kansas City area, just days before a six-way, too-close-to-call Democratic primary in Kansas’ 3rd congressional district, where Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas is fighting to hang on for a fifth term.

Two of Welder’s Democratic opponents on Friday accused Yoder and Ricketts of meddling in their party’s primary by trying to boost a candidate who would be easier for Yoder to beat in November.

The winner of Tuesday’s Democratic primary will battle Yoder in a district where Democrat Hillary Clinton narrowly beat Donald Trump in 2016.

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