A Lifetime of Service. A New Mission Supporting Kansas.
Retired Army Colonel Richard Paz is fighting for property tax relief, affordable health care, strong public schools, and responsible growth that protects every family in District 38.
Vote by Tuesday, November 3.
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day. Advance voting ends at noon on Monday, November 2.
Leavenworth County: vote early at the Leavenworth County Courthouse, 300 Walnut St., Leavenworth.
Wyandotte County: vote early at any Wyandotte County early voting site, including the Bonner Springs Library, 201 N. Nettleton Ave., and the Kane Community Center, 3130 N. 122nd St., through Saturday, October 31, or at the Wyandotte County Election Office, 850 State Ave., Kansas City, until noon November 2.
The last day to request a mail ballot is Tuesday, October 27. Return your mail ballot as soon as possible.
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What Richard is fighting for
Clear priorities. Local accountability. Results for Kansas families.
Property Tax Relief
Protecting homeowners, seniors, veterans, farms, and small businesses from rising property taxes.
Learn more →Health Care Access & Medicaid Expansion
Expanding health care access, strengthening rural hospitals, improving mental health care, and supporting Medicaid expansion.
Learn more →Public Education & Libraries
Supporting Kansas public schools, teachers, students, special education, and community libraries.
Learn more →Childcare Affordability
Making quality childcare more accessible and affordable so working parents can stay in the workforce.
Learn more →Data Centers and SB 98
Repealing or amending SB 98’s 20-year tax break and counting the full cost of data centers before residents pay it.
Learn more →Veterans & Military Families
Honoring service with stronger benefits, mental health access, career support, and real resources for military families.
Learn more →Hyperscale data center tax breaks started in Topeka. Topeka can end them.
Since February, Richard has worked alongside Leavenworth County residents opposing Project Bluestem, a proposed hyperscale data center campus south of Tonganoxie. In 2025 the Legislature passed SB 98, which gives qualifying data centers 20 years free of state and local sales tax in exchange for a $250 million investment and as few as 20 jobs. No one in Topeka counted the other costs: the noise and the light, the air and the water, the roads, and the families who live next door. Richard supports growth that pays its own way. He does not support asking neighbors to pay for it. Richard will also push to require every bill in the House and Senate to name the person or group who requested it.
✓ Repeal or amend SB 98, the 20-year, 100% sales tax break for data centers
✓ Count the full cost: health, noise, light, water, roads, and farmland
✓ Judge projects by net cost, not gross revenue promises
✓ Pay for jobs after they show up, not up front
✓ Require every bill to name who asked for it
Serving communities across the district
District 38 spans parts of Leavenworth and Wyandotte Counties, including Basehor and Linwood, and parts of Bonner Springs, De Soto, Leavenworth, and Kansas City, Kansas.
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Working for the people of District 38, not special interests.
Richard knows this district the way his neighbors do: its farms, fence lines, small towns, and the families who keep them going.
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