Republican turned Democrat attorney general candidate Paul Morrison (in photo) isn’t the only person in his campaign being accused of being disloyal to the GOP. One of the co-chairmen of his campaign is former Wichitan Mark Parkinson — a past chairman of the Kansas Republican Party and a former GOP state lawmaker. Conservative activist John Altevogt of Kansas City contends that Parkinson is an “agent provocateur” planted by the Democratic Party to “sow discord and seek every opportunity to undermine honest Republican candidates.” Parkinson argues that Morrison’s campaign team — which also includes co-chairwoman Wichitan Jill Docking — “shows the bipartisan nature of this race and our effort to take politics out of the attorney general’s office.”
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“honest Republican candidates.”
What?
“shows the bipartisan nature of this race and our effort to take politics out of the attorney general’s office.”
huh?
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Look at the comparison.
Morrison = Over 120 Jury Trials
Kline = 0 Jury Trials
Who is more qualified for the position?
Let me think about this: Paul Morrison switches parties, from rep to dem, and Conservative activist John Altevogt contends that Paul is being disloyal the the Republican party.
Uh, John, how can someone be disloyal to something they don’t belong to anymore? Uh, John, that’s a rhetorical question, in case you don’t quite understand it.
Ever wonder why Republicans are deserting the party like rats deserting a sinking ship? Pssst, John, look in the mirror.
JM, I guess I have no need to explain it to them. Thank you.
Although I like Kline, I believe he is an excellent AG, dispite a few disagreements I have with him, but on the Republican desertions, I don’t blame them.
The Republican Party in Kansas has been hijacked by the evangelicals who are re-writing the platform and basic ideology of what Republicans stand for.
People call it the Conservative and Moderate split. I don’t! I call it the evangelical and GOP split. Conservatives and Moderates have always worked well with each other, but the evangelicals don’t. It’s either their way or no way. Plus in the last election, the evangelicals pushed all the Republican candidates that were not of the religous evangelical base out of office, from State reps down to precinct committee persons.
Many Republicans feel betrayed, so the Democrat party is the attractive alternative. Since the Kansas Democratic Party is not filled with leftist and there aren’t many leftist in Kansas, the Democratic Party is a good choice. Sebelius is a very conservative Democrat. She would actually be a Republican if it weren’t for the evangelical hijackers, she is a classic Republican in mind and heart, which is cool.
It sounds like a dangerous game both parties are playing. It is dangerous for Democrats to welcome disgruntled Republicans in a state like Kansas. True Democrats don’t want to become Republican Lites. It is dangerous for Republicans to pin all their futures on the evangelicals and risk disgruntled Republicans casting negative votes in favor of democrats. My mother voted a negative vote for Glickman by voting for Tiahrt, and she has regretted it ever sense.
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Conservative activist John Altevogt of Kansas City contends that Parkinson is an “agent provocateur” planted by the Democratic Party to “sow discord and seek every opportunity to undermine honest Republican candidates.”
I love it. Where’s the “ANGRY” eptitet for a mean-spirited and vicious comment by a Republican?
Howard Dean says something that everybody is thinking like “Dick Cheney may not be Vice-President much longer,” and the MSM lights up like pinball machine with “ANGRY,” but let a conservative spout vituperation like this, and the media response is a sanguine “he has a right to his opinion . . . “
BTW, as stated in a previous post, Kline is toast.
Looks like he’ll have to go back to his previous job–radio announcer.
Remember this Altevogt is the guy who outed Mirecki’s email. He’s more likely to call you a Nazi, than Joe W. is to call you a leftist.
When Altevogt starts whining that you’re not playing fair, you know you are on the right track. IMHO.
Ah ha! Nice find, DD.
We need to start asking the question over and over: “why are conservatives so ANGRY?”
Good analysis Joe. I would add that a person who switches over to the Dem Party and gets elected to office is then in a position to influence the Dem Party.
It probably has something to do with tone, Proudlib…
Who gives a shit about this issue.
Why does the Kansas City Star hide Kline’s announcement of support by 89 sheriffs since it was a political story, but serves as cheerleader for Democratic candidate, Paul Morrison?
http://www.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=531
Mr. Meadowlark speaks:
“Where was the Kansas City Star’s reporting about this story? The story did appear briefly online with the Star’s AP stories, but the Kansas City Star NEVER printed this story, even though they sent a reporter to the press conference. Apparently, the Star thinks the press release and announcement was only political and not newsworthy.”
Possibly, on the contrary, they thought the whole thing was bullshit. What do you think?
Yes but what is Morrison’s views on Taxes and Abortion. Those two issues are the only ones that Kansans’ seem to care about.
When Morrison spoke in Wichita on Friday, he said that Kline has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the AG budget by his frequent hiring of outside counsel to do legal work. He also said that privacy is more and more important as technology becomes more and more pervasive, and he is especially concerned about financial and medical record privacy.
So that is what he had to say about abortion and taxes. What is most important is that he has said several times that “there is no such thing as Republican or Democrat law enforcement.” What a breath of fresh air he will be when he retires Kline.
Bill Clinton was Attorney General of Arkansas and he did not practice law or saw a courtroom either.
Just to give you a perspective.
I have known Mr. Morrison slightly for probably 20 years when he was and still is county prosecutor of Johnson County, Kansas. He is an excellent prosecutor and deserves to be elected Attorney General of Kansas.
Phil Kline is a horse of another color. He was never a county prosecutor nor apparently even a real attorney for any length of time. The EAGLE should examine/report Phil’s lawyer experience but it must be minimal.
Phil is basically a dynamic speaker with a single speech he gives with all the vigor or an old time fire and brimstone preacher, “the 100 against 1000″ or something to that effect. His passion and mission in life is opposing abortions and related issues.
He has strong ties to various conservative Kansas church groups. In the aggregate, these might be the most powerful political influence groups in our state, overpowering Kansas Republican and Democratic parties.
Personally, I would like to seePhil Kline challenge Kathleen Sebelius for the Kansas governorship. That should be an interesting race with lots of fireworks and expose Sebelius’s weaknesses as a political candidate and campaigner.
Then let Paul Morrison, the best attorney general candidate in Kansas, go for Kansas Attorney General on either the Republican or Democratic ticket — preferably Republican but the die is apparently and unfortunately already cast.
I should have spelled Mr. Kline’s first name as “Phill,” not Phil in my above posting. Sorry.
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