Bipartisanship of the highest order

It's no secret among House members that Rep. Bruce Maloch (D-Magnolia) and Kansas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback are friends -- such good friends, in fact, that Brownback served as a Groomsman in Maloch's wedding. So the fact that Maloch's name showed up on one of Brownback's FEC reports didn't raise any eyebrows around here.

Here they are pictured together on the front page of today's Magnolia Banner News from a November, 2005 visit together (and another photo of them visiting the Carter White House in 1977). Their friendship began back during the 1976 FFA national convention, and they crossed paths again later that decade while working on Capitol Hill.