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Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Republican on the House Federal and State Affairs committee, asked questions in Topeka, Kan. State Sen. Dinah Sykes, of Lenexa, and Clayton, of Overland Park, switched to the Democratic Party on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, joining two other suburban Kansas City lawmakers who made the switch last week. The moderate Kansas Republican legislators said they believed they could be more effective legislators as Democrats. (Thad Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, File)

2 more moderate Kansas GOP legislators defect to Democrats

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an Overland Park Republican on the House Federal and State Affairs committee, asked questions in Topeka, Kan. State Sen. Dinah Sykes, of Lenexa, and Clayton, of Overland Park, switched to the Democratic Party on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, joining two other suburban Kansas City lawmakers who made the switch last week. The moderate Kansas Republican legislators said they believed they could be more effective legislators as Democrats. (Thad Allton/Topeka Capital-Journal via AP, File)

Kansas Republicans, Dinah Sykes, Stephanie Clayton, become Democrats

By John Hanna - Associated Press