What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank

Author:Thomas Frank [Frank, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Prior to meeting Mark Gietzen, I knew him only by reputation—a reputation acquired during the early days of the conservative revolt, when the Wichita newspaper reeled in horror at the prospect of “theocracy” right here in the Air Capital. Gietzen, the director of a Wichita Christian singles network, served as chairman of the local Republican Party through much of the nineties, and the paper had not treated him kindly. The photo that always ran in the paper showed some small-town Lothario, a man in a pencil mustache and the half-tinted aviator-style glasses of the disco era. The way they described his election as county chairman, it sounded like a coup d’état; once they ran a cartoon that seemed to falsely suggest that he was a wife beater.

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