With at least six and possibly 10 debates in the Kansas attorney general’s race, no voter should find himself asking "Paul Who?" on Nov. 7. It makes you wonder why the high-profile GOP incumbent, Phill Kline, would be so eager to share a stage with Democrat Paul Morrison so many times. Kline said last week: "I want all Kansas voters to have the chance to hear the clear difference between how I have protected our most vulnerable citizens — our children, seniors and those with mental and physically challenges — compared to my opponent’s positions."
Meanwhile, a Morrison spokesman said Kline "should explain his bad judgment and wrong priorities as attorney general."
These appearances shouldn’t be boring.
One of the confirmed dates is Sept. 14 at Wichita State University.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Its time for the smug, egotistical, bar licence lapsing, pretty boy Kline to get out of office and let someone who has actually practiced law do the job…
But who will protect all the sexually active Kansas teens from Phil Kline’s anal probes? =)
Hey any guy that think it is perfectly Ok for a female to preform oral sex on a male has something going for him! Who is that under your desk Phil?
No no! That’s just cuz Phil is a Monica Lewinsky fan.
I’d like to know just how he has protected the mentally and physically disabled, Medicaid just made more cutbacks in their health care.
Mary, he’s repugnican.Don’t you get it?A lie repeated often enough becomes a repug truth.
From Josh at Thoughts from Kansas:
Phelps family backs Phill KlinePhelps donation to Kline campaign brings criticism:
Paul Morrison’s campaign for attorney general criticized Atty. Gen. Phill Kline on Monday for taking a campaign contribution from a member of the Fred Phelps family.
“The fact that Phill Kline would take money from a person who protests the funerals of our servicemen and women is disturbing,” Morrison’s campaign manager Mark Simpson said.
“Someone with such terrible judgment and skewed priorities has no business being attorney general,” Simpson said.Benjamin Phelps has since decided that Kline is a meanie, but his $500 donation helped put Kline in office. Help put the Phelps clan in its place, put Paul Morrison in office.
Taking money from the Phelps could hurt Kline. Badly.
Mary – If it was not for Phill Kline the poor people stuck in that Newton Facility for the disabled would still be there being abused by the Kaufman’s. Now they are free from that abuse because Phill Kline took action that for years everyone else ignored.
sts, how can you credit Philll with saving those people?He just happened to be in office when the crime was discovered and arrested.You are suggesting that a different AG knew about this but ignored it?Bullshit.
Kline is a formiddable public speaker. I don’t know anything about Morrison, so I guess I will have to attend a couple of debates and read up more about him.
Tracy – You should talk to the victims. They will tell you how they were ignored for years by several agencies. They are so thankful that Phill Kline was able to free them.
You would have to talk to all of the agencies and see why these people were ignored under Graves and Sebelius.
And how long was Phill in office before anything was done in Newton? He didn’t come in and during his first week free them. You can’t give Phill credit for something that law enforcement finally did something about.
As for the debate, I’ve heard both men. If it’s a debate on substance – Paul mops the floor with Phill. If it’s a debate on ability to speak, it’s a tie. If it’s a debate on sound bites and politics over substance, Phill wins.
Don’t kid yourself; Kline, as Joe said, is a VERY persuasive public speaker. If you (or Paul Morrison) believe that these debates will expose Kline and sweep Morrison into office, you’re dreaming. Kline will come out of them quite alive and well.
Morrison’s a very good prosecutor. And I don’t doubt that he’d make a good AG; I always thought so when I worked for him. I’m troubled by his opportunistic jump to the other side (what another blogger calls the Evil Party, as opposed to the Stupid Party) here, however.
It’ll be the most interesting race in the State this year, hands down.
“opposed to the Stupid Party”
heheheheh
and it is gmc who is ALWAYS whining about civility.
I guess calling democrats stupid is an example of the esquire’s civility?
SNARK SNARK
Ya missed it, KFG – this other blogger (another site) refers to the democrats as the Evil Party, the republicans as the Stupid Party.
And you, of all people, don’t even preach to me of civility. There is NO ONE on this blog more nasty with the personal ad hominem than you. I will not, however, crawl into the mud with you.
Law Enforcment did not free them. It was the work of the AG and a disabilities group (created by the feds) that freed the people from the Kaufmans.
No, he did not do it alone but he did get it done.
Don’t look now Eagle, but your bias is showing. The democratic party seems to have a built in Press Secretary right here in Wichita.
Why thank you DICK.Now if you can just get them to send me a check for towing the party-line, I would be most appreciative.
Alright GM, you asked for it.
LESBIAN MUD WRESTLING !!!
I wanna be the first to crawl in the mud with ya’ girl.
Didn’t Kaufman make a living at this?
heee hee haa haa hoo hoo
You guys are so funny. Lesbian mud wrestling?
heee heee heee hee hee hee hee hee
GMC is a LAWYER and he now thinks he is above the mud?
hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee
Glad to know gmc and his big stick in his *** will not be in the mud pit.
Ya we see how civil you are gmc. Must be all the civility that requires such a big concealed carry gun.
God, guns, gays… and gmc?
heheheheh
“No, he did not do it alone but he did get it done.”
The Kaufmanns were investigated and sucessfully prosecuted by the FEDS.
Kline did help the victims in terms of the passage of the state law that is supposed to prevent the group home conditions that that led to their abuse.
I think Kline is a nice guy. I suspect, however, that his help of the Kaufmann victims was purely political in motivation. Looking like their savior (even though he wasn’t) has got to be good politics.
Let a real lawyer have the KS AG job!
heheh Steven, he does have the gift of being able to run to the head of a parade already in progress.
Like the btk press conference? The “water lawsuit” (hee hee hee) or now the Kaufmans?
“Which way did they go? How many of them were there? What did they want?
I have to know! I am their leader!”
Hey folks,Morrison was just on the NPR Neal Conan show “Talk of the Nation” getting national exposure talking about how voters in Kansas “hunger for moderate candidates”.
Sorry, Kansas Meadowlurk, but Morrison was sounding like a WINNER!
“Bring it on!”, I say.
“heheh Steven, he does have the gift of being able to run to the head of a parade already in progress.”
Kline does remind you of those college boys who strategically run ahead of the real leaders in the Boston Marathon at opportune moments – when the course passes the girls’ dorms…
What brought the Kaufmans down was their Medicaid and Medicare billing practices. It was their greed that brought the peering eyes of the FEDS to their little horror house. Phill Kline had little or nothing to do with it. Although I am sure he was there to get the first pat on the back – just like a true picture-perfect politician.
Here is the link to Morrison’s interview on NPR today. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5658174
Gay Mafia,
I just listened to the NPR report and i think Morrison did very well and made ALOT of good points and spoke very intelligably, much better than Bushdabum.
“Morrison did very well and made ALOT of good points and spoke very intelligably, much better than Bushdabum.”
Tony, it wouldn’t be hard to do, now would it?