Reuters: Politics: CORRECTED-Obama cousin, a Tea Party Republican, to challenge Kansas U.S. Senator

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CORRECTED-Obama cousin, a Tea Party Republican, to challenge Kansas U.S. Senator Oct 9th 2013, 03:37 Share this Email Print Reprints By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kansas | Tue Oct 8, 2013 11:17pm EDT KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Milton Wolf, a Tea Party activist and distant cousin of President Barack Obama, will challenge three-term Kansas U.S. Senator Pat Roberts in the 2014 Republican primary election, he said on Tuesday. Wolf, 42, a radiologist, organized a rally at a suburban Kansas City hotel to announce his candidacy. "I am here today to take my stand for America," Wolf said in a speech released in advance to the media. "I'm here today to fight for our Constitution and the divinely inspired American ideal of individual liberty, limited government and free enterprise." Wolf said he has always been a Republican but felt that Republicans let government grow bigger and more costly when they controlled Congress as well as the White House under President George W. Bush. Wolf said on his website that he is related to Obama through the president's mother, Ann Dunham, who was born in Kansas. Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who had a major role in raising the president, is Wolf's mother's cousin, he said. Roberts, 77, is the latest Senate Republican incumbent to face a challenge from the right in the primary campaign. The others are Michael Enzi of Wyoming, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Enzi's challenger is Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Roberts is ranked by several groups as one of the most conservative senators and he is ready to run on that record, Leroy Towns, his executive campaign manager, said on Tuesday. "It will be pretty hard for anyone to get on the conservative side of Pat Roberts," said Towns. Roberts' re-election campaign has already raised about $2 million, Towns said. Although Wolf has no experience in politics, Towns said Roberts will take the challenge seriously. Wolf said he is proud that America elected its first black president in 2008 but said he has "profound differences" with the president. "Like I've said before," Wolf said in his speech Tuesday, "you cannot choose your family, but you can choose to rise up and stop your family from destroying America." (Reporting By Kevin Murphy; Editing by Greg McCune, Gunna Dickson and Ken Wills) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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