District attorney choice

Kline’s record is strong

I think The Star is asking the wrong questions regarding the Kansas attorney general race. Why would Paul Morrison want to become a Democrat and take a pay cut?

Phill Kline is more respected than most people I know. He put himself through college and law school and worked at a well-known local law firm. He was a Republican committeeman and a state legislator who was known for his financial responsibility. As attorney general, he argued several state water cases and the death penalty case and won. That’s all bad?

I think The Star should be printing his record rather than putting him down. He stands for hard work and loyalty to the public interest. There is no reason for your out-and-out venom. You obviously had a hand in his defeat in the attorney general race, and now you’re kicking him after he lost.

Phill Kline could have chosen the road to riches, but he chose to serve the public instead. Would that you could do the same.

Charlotte Hargis
Shawnee

Not attorney general’s job

After reading “Recall of Kline too difficult, moderates say” (12/14, Local), I was simply appalled. Why should Attorney General Paul Morrison be held responsible for removing Phill Kline from his newly appointed post of Johnson County district attorney?

It’s unfortunate that the conservatives have control of the Republican Party in Johnson County, but it is not Morrison’s responsibility to clean up their mess.

Morrison saw that conservatives controlled the party he called home for so many years, and he made a bold and courageous move to switch parties and run for attorney general.

As a Republican, I will not follow the advice of Johnson County’s Kansas traditional Republican majority and ask Morrison to sweep up the mess left behind by the Johnson County Republican committee.

Instead, I will follow in Morrison’s footsteps and switch my voter registration to Democrat. That’s the path to ending the reign of these conservative extremists in Johnson County.

Steve Cook
Shawnee

Comments

[KS Meadowlark]

Steve Cook: Are you the same Steve Cook that was a "Republican for Moore" in 2006? And was a "Republican for Moore" in 2004? And was in the 2002 class of "Republicans for Moore"? Didn't you leave the Republican party a long time ago?

[tomw]

Engineer-I stand corrected. I was counting Brownback as the one conservative and while I consider Pat Roberts to be a conservative, but I figured you didn't. I have no idea why I wasn't counting Kline in '02, but the bottom line is there have been three in at least twelve years.

"However, I can't agree that conservatives can't be elected State wide..."

I never said that. The point is the Ks GOP keeps nominating right wing candidates and expects different results from the previous election failure. They (you), then blame the press.

[Engineer]

tomw
I don't blame everything on the Media, obviously Kline had a lot of opposition that would have been there no matter what the Media said or did. However, I can't agree that conservatives can't be elected State wide, both of our US Senators are conservatives.

[tomw]

Engineer-I sincerely wish that you and Ron Freeman continue to blame the media and others for the woes of the right wing of the republican party of Kansas. However, the facts don't support your position. As I've pointed out several times before, Kline's support was weak four years ago,when he ran against an unknown democrat from central Kansas. In addition, Kansans don't seem inclined to elect conservatives to statewide posts. I can think of one exception in many years. Johnson Co. voters do not elect right wingers to county wide positions either.

[Engineer]

tomw
I didn't keep copies of all the unfavorable articles The Star wrote about Kline, not even the one in which they falsely accused him of lying. They admitted their error in that case and printed a retraction, in a box on the lower corner of Page A2 were it was unlikely to be seen by many. Even the articles about his success at the Supreme Court included some snide remarks. But if you really doubt that The Star was unfaillingly critical, and if you care one way or the other, you can alwayd research their morgue.

[tomw]

"So far as I know there has never been another example. Neither has there been another example of the campaign that was carried on by the Press in the KC Area and Wichita throughout Kline's tern as AG."

Examples, please.

[jack]

Could it possibly be that more people wanted rid of Kline than wanted to keep him? Nah. Must be that ever deomonizing leftist liberal press.

Seems to me that any time a right winger wins it is because that is what the people want but anytime anyone else wins it's because of that damned lieing press.

[Engineer]

tomw
From a previous thread:
"Engineer-Who was the last Kansas statewide officeholder to be swept out by double digits?
Posted by: tomw | Dec 18, 2006 7:31:40 PM "
So far as I know there has never been another example. Neither has there been another example of the campaign that was carried on by the Press in the KC Area and Wichita throughout Kline's tern as AG.
During the coming two years of Kline's term as DA, I anticipate The Star and The Sun will spend more time and effort looking for any minor glitch they can magnify all out of porportion than they have spent in the last twenty years in reporting on the DA's office.

[Kansasdog]

"He stands for hard work and loyalty to the public interest." - Charlotte

He stands only for the anti-abortion crowd and loyalty to Kansans for Life. - fixed

[jack]

Dear Charlotte:

If you and the rest of the right wingers are going to keep blaming the press for every failure, people of your political beliefs will condemn themselves to only the fringes.

The right wing rode the "Press is against us" train as far as it would go. It's time to get off that dead horse and start paying attention to what the majority of the electorate actually believes.

[churd]

Republican or Democrat. Democrat or Republican. You do all know there are other options particularly at the local and state level. If your tired of the big government antics of both the republicans and democrats then look at the Libertarian party. It doesn't have to be, nor should it be a either/or choice.