Oletha Faust-Goudeau is a Democratic member of the Kansas Senate

Kansas Senate

The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 Senators representing an equal amount of districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members of the Senate are elected to a four year term....

, representing the 29th District since 2008. She was previously a Kansas Representative

Kansas House of Representatives

The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kansas Legislature, the legislative body of the U.S. State of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for crafting and voting on...

. She was appointed to this position in 2004.

Committee assignments

Faust-Goudeau serves on these legislative committees:

• Ethics and Elections
• Federal and State Affairs
• Joint Committee on Arts and Cultural Resources
• Joint Committee on Children's Issues
• Commerce
• Joint Committee on Economic Development
• Local Government

Major donors

Some of the top contributors to Faust-Goudeau's 2008 campaign, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics:

Kansas National Education Association, Kansans for Lifesaving Cures, KTLA Consumer Civil Justice, Kansas Contractors Association, AT&T

Labor interests were her largest donor group.

Controversies

She tried to get out of a speeding ticket by playing the race card and using the fact that she was a state senator. This was not an isolated case.

External links

• Kansas Senate
• Project Vote Smart profile
• Follow the Money campaign contributions
  • 2004, 2006, 2008