UPDATE: Kay for Kansas

Kay Barnes reiterated her support for Kansas last night in an interview with WHSB’s Chris Hernandez. 

"When pressed with a follow-up question that could put her political career at risk, Barnes admits she'll cheer for the Jayhawks.  ’I think your undergraduate school is always the one you have allegiance to,’ she said."

In the meantime, she took even more heat, this time from Blog KC:

"Memo to Kay Barnes… When running for a Missouri Congressional seat in a tight race, it might not be prudent to go out of your way to promote one of your state’s biggest sports rivals. If you can’t support your home-state team maybe you ought to decline to provide a quote.  Keep this in mind in case the two schools meet again in March for the Big 12 basketball tournament in your new arena."

Comments

[Political Moderate]

Okay...
I concede.
Dumb, again, Kay.

[NorthernThunder]

The Queen of TIF has no concept of reality. She was Mayor of Kansas City, MISSOURI.

Turn out the lights, as Dandy Don used to say.... the party is over.

[KCHotDog]

Some may suspect that Granny Barnes is suffering from early stage Alzheimer's. But this KU crap has nothing to do with old age. This is nothing less than "in-your-face" arrogance from Granny. Any politician running for office in Missouri who favors the Jayhawks over the Tigers needs to be dumped big time. I sure hope the voters in the 6th take note and reject this Jayhawker.

[Greg Logan]

So Kay Barnes was rooting for KU to beat MU in Saturday's football game. A political gaffe of major proportions. I'm sure Kay will say she doesn't follow college football closely and was merely making a casual comment. Horse feathers. Either Kay is ignorant about Missourians, or she really wanted the hated Jayhawks to beat the Tigers. Either way, not the kind of sentiments Missourians want in their reps. Is it really possible Kay doesn't know about the intense MU/KU rivalry? We have too many fools in Congress already. We don't need another.