As reported by Martin Hawver in Hawver’s Capitol Flash:
Lobbyists were talking about one of the stranger receptions that they?ve attended in recent memory: one organized by [Kansas Governor Mark] Parkinson to introduced lobbyists and political operatives to Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, who is seeking the governorship.
Strange: Lobbyists weren?t asked for checks, weren?t pressured, just given a chance, for free, to talk to Holland and learn more about him. That isn?t often done in Kansas.