We have three weeks to the deadline for filing for office in the state, and many of us Statehouse insiders are watching every day to see who has filed, who hasn’t and who just might have filed as part of a ruse to select their successors.
The statewide state offices, of course, are filling up. Only Republican Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is retiring, meaning that whatever happens, there’s going to be a new face there.
Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach hasn’t filed, though his Democratic opponent, former State Sen. and former Republican Jean Schodorf of Wichita, has filed. Kobach? He could just wander downstairs in his office building on a coffee break and sign up.