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How did GOP crack Dem stronghold “We were told they would pass out all candidates’ materials,” he said, adding that he has never received an explanation from the state party. Gutierrez said he believes that move and others by state workers caused “irreparable harm” to his campaign. “We’re local, we know our local constituents, and they really didn’t give us much time of day,” he said. “They had their formula they were going to follow, and obviously it was the wrong formula.” Mike Gaughan, executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party, said his office did receive a report on the Gutierrez matter, but not until the Monday before the election. At that point, he said, it was too late to resolve the issue. “In every campaign, there’s friction between individual campaigns, and county parties, and volunteers and organizers,” Gaughan said Monday in a telephone interview from Topeka. “I don’t think that anything extraordinary occurred in Crawford County to my knowledge.” State Rep. Bob Grant, D-Cherokee, who was re-elected Nov. 4, said he agreed that the state and local workers were at odds. “The way we were treated by the state party (organizers), I don’t care if those sons of b------ ever come back down here,” Grant said Friday in a phone interview. “They were supposed to work for every candidate, but they picked out the ones they wanted to, and that’s not right.” Gaughan declined to comment on Grant’s statement, but he did say he planned to investigate the complaints. “We’re a week out in the election, and we’ve got things to review,” he said. “I’m not going to point fingers in the newspaper.” ‘Ground game’ John Minton, incoming chairman of the Crawford County Republican Party, said his party felt good about its chances on the day of the election. “We were feeling pretty confident in a couple of races,” he said. “We were feeling a lot better going into election night than we have in the last couple of elections.” Minton said that in the weeks before the election, he and other Republicans noticed some problems with Democratic rivals. “It seemed we did a better job of a coordinating effort,” Minton said. “They (the Democrats) had to rely a lot on Topeka, and Topeka seemed to do whatever it wanted.” Republican committeeman Steve Bitner said the difference came down to having a motivated and coordinated effort by local party members. 
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