Parkinson, a former state House and Senate member from Olathe, has served as chairman of the state Republican Party. A political moderate, he said he was increasingly alienated from his own party after conservatives increasingly focused on “wedge issues” rather than solutions to the state’s problems.
Kansas City Star
The Hutchinson News
Two ideas that ought to be more popular: moderate Republicans switching parties and "wedge issues" becoming a thing of the past.
