While I would take a dif­fer­ent tack on this issue (as pre­sent­ed here, here, and here), I think Moore hits his points solid­ly in his let­ter in yes­ter­day’s Kansas City Star (scroll down):

Can­di­date contributors

In addi­tion to a can­di­date’s posi­tion on the issues, vot­ers deserve to know who sup­ports a can­di­date. That is the rea­son I have always sup­port­ed pub­lic dis­clo­sure of cam­paign contributions.

Kris Kobach has attempt­ed to hide his pat­tern of asso­ci­at­ing with groups that are clear­ly out­side the main­stream. This isn’t about par­ti­san­ship or per­son­al attacks. It’s about his judg­ment. Adam Taff first point­ed out Mr. Kobach’s links to extrem­ist organizations.

For exam­ple, Mr. Kobach accept­ed six con­tri­bu­tions total­ing $7,500 from the U.S. Immi­gra­tion Reform PAC (USIRP). This orga­ni­za­tion paid Peter Gem­ma $7,740 in 2004. Gem­ma is on the pay­roll of the Coun­cil of Con­ser­v­a­tive Cit­i­zens, the largest white nation­al­ist group in the Unit­ed States today.

Mr. Kobach was asked to return cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions from groups with ties to white suprema­cists. Even when pre­sent­ed the facts, he refused to give the mon­ey back. Kansans deserve better.

Den­nis Moore

Kansas 3rd District

U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive

Lenexa

My ego isn’t near­ly big enough to think that my research and radio star­dom influ­enced this strat­e­gy, hope­ful­ly some­one will come talk to us blog­gers about this.