# Brandon Woodard

Brandon Woodard is a Democratic member of the Kansas House for district 108.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Kansas House, district 108
- Serving since: 2023-01-09
- Current term: KS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/c56cf970-39c2-4821-8723-a85dfe09cd6b

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c56cf970-39c2-4821-8723-a85dfe09cd6b (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

11% of Woodard’s statements contain a personal attack, 4.4 times the State House Democrat average of 2.5%.

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

340 classified statements: 340 posts 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 | Woodard | State House Democrats average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 11.2% | 2.5% | 41 of 764 |
| Policy criticism | 11.5% | 10.4% | 274 of 764 |
| Policy discussion | 38.8% | 39.2% | 403 of 764 |
| Bipartisanship | 6.8% | 2.9% | 80 of 764 |
| Credit claiming | 19.4% | 14.4% | 240 of 764 |
| Extreme labels | 2.4% | 1.0% | 98 of 764 |

Most discussed policy areas: Government Operations and Politics 30% (State House Democrats 15%); Health 14% (State House Democrats 15%); Transportation and Public Works 11% (State House Democrats 5.3%); Taxation 9.8% (State House Democrats 3.6%); Education 7.6% (State House Democrats 15%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.42 (standard error 0.02), from 1,108 donors and 186 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 79% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (KS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 48 bills: 27 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 4.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Kansas House 13.7%; rank 95 of 124).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HCR 5036: Providing for the adjournment of the House of Representatives and the Senate for a period of time. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HCR5036/
- 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 6037: Providing for the assignment of seats in the House of Representatives for the 2026 legislative session. (introduced, 2026-03-20) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6037/
- HR 6034: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson. (introduced, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6034/
- 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/
- 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 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/
- HB 2656: Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2656/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $19.7K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 80% 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.

- 2026-10-24 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2113805364596760649
- 2026-10-24 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2113975781026377762
- 2026-10-24 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2113975924504826247
- 2026-10-23 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2113680897333702707
- 2026-10-22 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2113093359577567469
- 2026-10-20 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2112688876607127606
- 2026-10-18 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2111631876330811469
- 2026-10-18 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2111644797916115299
- 2026-10-17 · Post on X · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2111588337916215472
- 2026-10-15 · Post on X · labels: personal attacks, policy discussion · https://x.com/woodard4kansas/status/2110767041326227559

## Links

- Official site: https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/members/rep_woodard_brandon_1/
- X: https://x.com/woodard4kansas
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/woodard4kansas/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btwood125/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonwoodard/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/c56cf970-39c2-4821-8723-a85dfe09cd6b