# Kansas lawmaker goes full-on wacko **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 1, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141 "2021-05-01T03:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/82 "2021-05-27T16:19:20Z")
> [@bobsmom101](#): > > yeah I know I ended the sentence a preposition with. I think you meant: “I used a preposition to abruptly end a sentence with.” Maybe we should call it a “postposition” instead of a preposition. And be sure to gratuitously throw in some split infinitives for good measure. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/83 "2021-08-06T21:26:01Z")
[https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article253260983.html](https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article253260983.html) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/84 "2021-08-06T21:42:31Z")
From the article: > Numerous videos taken by students that day show Samsel ranting about God, the Bible, masturbation and suicide. One student told police Samsel kicked him in the crotch. Samsel went on to say that he had “tried to distinguish himself from his fellow red state Republican colleagues” but that he “utterly failed.” /s ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/85 "2021-08-06T22:07:15Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Samsel went on to say that he had “tried to distinguish himself from his fellow red state Republican colleagues” but that he “utterly failed.” He wasn’t crazy _enough_? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/86 "2021-08-06T22:29:23Z")
Just when you think things can’t get any stranger, people like this come along. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/87 "2021-08-06T23:07:05Z")
He surrendered his teaching license, because nobody will ever hire this clown again. But of course he is still a state representative. And there are no GOP voices telling him to resign. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2021, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/88 "2021-08-06T23:19:54Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > From the article: Because someone else couldn’t be bothered. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/89 "2021-08-07T02:05:06Z")
It is an update on the subject of the thread that tells the summary in the box. That is plenty to let someone know if the link is something that they want to click. The number of posts you have made sniping at me personally in various threads because I don’t make the type of posts that you like really makes me feel sorry for you. You are losing _so_ much rent on my space in your head. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/90 "2021-08-07T03:49:11Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I think you meant: “I used a preposition to abruptly end a sentence with.” What did you bring that book that I didn’t want to be read to out of about Down Under up for? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/91 "2021-08-07T12:25:00Z")
I think you broke something in my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/92 "2021-08-07T19:27:20Z")
…so there’s some ninny-warts in your brain that’s getting screwed with? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/93 "2021-08-07T21:00:41Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Sure, but does kneeing a child in the crotch make him a _criminal_ ? Let’s not rush to judgement here. I mean, time will tell. I believe assault and battery is indeed a criminal offense. If I just pretend to knee someone in the nuts and pull back, that is already assault. Actually doing it is battery. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/94 "2021-08-08T01:34:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What did you bring that book that I didn’t want to be read to out of about Down Under up for? I have to go home and put what I’m going out in on. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/95 "2021-09-14T04:40:18Z")
He’s going to be placed on probation. > **[Lawmaker accused of kicking boy pleads guilty to 3 charges](https://www.kwqc.com/2021/09/13/lawmaker-accused-kicking-boy-pleads-guilty-3-charges/?fbclid=IwAR0Qd2XjrZZoTczxvTaW0brucbNDQHHECMvakl2Rhvb398z9nwKLOhvkRZ0)** > > Republican Rep. Mark Samsel pleaded guilty Monday to three misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and was placed on a year’s probation under a deal with the local prosecutor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141.md?page=4)