# Sydney Carlin

Sydney Carlin is a Democratic member of the Kansas House for district 66.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Kansas House, district 66
- Serving since: 2003-01-13
- Current term: KS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/61dc8b8f-5016-4114-b08a-b2dd0cb16993

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/61dc8b8f-5016-4114-b08a-b2dd0cb16993 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Carlin’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Kansas, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## What Carlin says (KS 2025–26 session)

1 classified statements: 1 post on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State House Democrats average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Carlin | State House Democrats average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 0.0% | 2.5% | 584 of 765 |
| Policy criticism | 0.0% | 10.4% | 717 of 765 |
| Policy discussion | 0.0% | 39.2% | 757 of 765 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.0% | 2.9% | 676 of 765 |
| Credit claiming | 0.0% | 14.4% | 729 of 765 |
| Extreme labels | 0.0% | 1.0% | 544 of 765 |

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.53 (standard error 0.03), from 37 donors and 574 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 65% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (KS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 28 bills: 20 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 3.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Kansas House 13.7%; rank 98 of 124).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 6043: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Melody McCray-Miller. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6043/
- HR 6044: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Harold Lane. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6044/
- HR 6040: Commemorating the life and service of Representative John Resman. (introduced, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6040/
- HR 6034: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson. (introduced, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6034/
- HCR 5029: Proposing to amend the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section relating to the public right to possess and use… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HCR5029/
- HB 2707: Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2707/
- HCR 5028: Proposing to amend the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section relating to the right for adults to possess and use… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HCR5028/
- HB 2678: Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2678/
- HB 2687: Prohibiting any governmental agency from regulating landings, takeoffs or the operation of aquatic aircraft on waters of the state. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2687/
- HB 2670: Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2670/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $3,450 (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-06-03 · Post on X · https://x.com/repsydneycarlin/status/2062249033704653144

## Links

- Official site: https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/members/rep_carlin_sydney_1/
- Campaign site: https://www.sydneycarlinforkansas.com/
- X: https://x.com/repsydneycarlin
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SydneyCarlin/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydney-carlin-2020767/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/61dc8b8f-5016-4114-b08a-b2dd0cb16993