Brownback drawn into 3rd District congressional race

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It was bound to happen.

The question was when.

It turned out it was in the primary.

Sara Hart Weir turned to that old Democratic foil — former Gov. Sam Brownback — to help win the Republican primary in the 3rd Congressional District against Amanda Adkins.

"I was a little surprised we haven't seen the Brownback connection before now," said Washburn University political scientist Bob Beatty. "It's so easy."

Weir's campaign this week reached back to the Brownback era with a mailer tying Adkins to his tax policy that was blamed for blowing holes in the state budget and . . .

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