Charles Schollenberger and his campaign staff wish to thank many Kansans around the state for their efforts in our behalf. While not ultimately successful in the recent U.S. Senate primary, we are proud that we were the only campaign that took a serious position on many of the major issues facing the country while at the same time proposing solutions.

We started out campaigning for both the health insurance and the financial reform bills until they both passed. We ran a campaign on many other issues, as well,  but we are particularly pleased  at what small part our efforts might have had in the passage of these two landmark pieces of legislation.

We can also be proud that in our 15-month campaign, we came out of nowhere to win the endorsements of four daily newspapers around the state, including a major metropolitan newspaper.

First and foremost, however, we’re proud of the fine young people who volunteered their time and talents to our efforts in their first debut into elective politics.

We’ll be proud to have them as our leaders of tomorrow: Ben Brungardt,  Creighton Coleman,  Jim Dailey,  Jeffrey Dazey, Benjamin Huntley,  Ben Long, Tom Oldfather, Stephanie Palcher, Patrick Rossol-Allison, and Nik and Theo Stavropoulos. All of our staff members served entirely without pay, an exceptional circumstance given the size and scope of our state-wide campaign.

Special thanks, as well, to political veterans Serena Hein,  Kathie Moore, and Debbie Snow, plus television news veteran John McGrath and his step-father, the most patient man in the world – Wayne Hohl – who loaned us his wife, Theresa,  for a year.

We also wish to salute the entirely volunteer efforts of our first and second campaign managers: Mayre Hoffman and Theresa Hohl, without whose tireless efforts this campaign could never have been waged.

Our  efforts across the state included DFA campaign training; attendance at three state KDP conventions; sponsoring hospitality rooms at two of these conventions, speaking at caucuses and congressional district meetings at these conventions; participating in parades in numerous cities; speaking to county meetings, breakfast meetings and dinner gatherings in over 20 cities; meetings with union leaders; and attendance at U.S. Senate forums in many cities, one of which was televised.

We appreciate the time and efforts that many committed Kansas Democrats have given to our efforts and hope that our campaign in some small way has helped arouse public awareness of the changes still needed in our country.