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Kyler Sweely
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Kyler Sweely is an American politician from Kansas that currently represents the 102nd district of the Kansas House of Representatives since 2024 as a Republican.
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A U.S. Army veteran twice deployed oversees, Sweely worked as an administrative assistant to Avery Anderson during the 2024 legislative session.[1]
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At 26 Sweely would run for the 102nd district of the Kansas House of Representatives, having to change his voter registration from Harvey County to Reno County to do so.[1] Sweely would narrowly defeat Tyson Thrall in the Republican primaries with 661 votes to Thrall's 500.[2][3] Thrall, a local to Reno County, had previously unsuccessfully run for the Hutchinson school board in 2021 but initially ran for the 114th District before changing his voter registration to stand for the 102nd district.[1]
Incumbent Democrat Jason Probst highlighted that Sweely wasn't from Reno County during his campaign, arguing that the Republican party was "District shopping" and importing politicians from Topeka to run in competitive districts across the state.[1] Several Reno County Republicans objected to Sweely’s candidacy after compiling evidence that he doesn’t live at the residence where he signed a lease shortly before filing for office but the Kansas State Objections Board rejected the complaint.[4]
However, the key issue of the campaign would be a video of Sweely being released where he pretends to smother a woman laying on a bed with a pillow.[5][6][7] Sweely described the clip as "some old videos from a double date with friends — just us hanging out and being silly" while Probst sought charges for sexual assault.[5] The Wichita Police Department contacted the woman in the video and she refused to press charges.[5] Sweely would defeat Probst with 3,772 votes (52.03%) to Probst's 3,478 (47.97%).[8] After his election Sweely would joke with fellow veteran and Representative Patrick Penn that Sweely had "shot" and "taken out" Probst.[9]
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