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Daily Archives: Nov. 4, 2006
Foulston: Experience matters
Nov. 4, 20061:03 a.m.
Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston endorsed Paul Morrison for attorney general Friday, saying he is “articulate, experienced and does not have a political agenda.”
Foulston told The Eagle editorial board that she had resisted endorsing in this race, but felt that her hand was forced by a claim by a supporter of Attorney General Phill Kline that she was backing Kline.
She said Kline came into office with “zero experience” in the courtroom — and that Morrison is “eminently more qualified.”
She also said that Kline has been “too politically motivated” as attorney general in pushing a social agenda — and gave as one example his pursuit of adult abortion records.
Foulston said she’d had enough of Kline’s mixture of religion and politics. “This is not the way law enforcement runs in this state.”
Posted by Randy Scholfield
When politicians speak, macaca happens
Nov. 4, 20061:02 a.m.
Though John Kerry isn’t on the ballot Tuesday and does not have the excuse of too much campaigning, others who are running have joined him this fall in getting tangled up in their own ill-chosen words.
“People are running hard and very tired. That’s why the last two weeks of a campaign, I always locked my candidates in the bus and put them on a script,” GOP consultant Edward J. Rollins told the Los Angeles Times.
Peruse the Times’ Kerry-inspired roundup of campaign season gaffes with caution. There is something to offend everybody.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
Congress’ guide to building an atom bomb
Nov. 4, 20061:01 a.m.
Especially after their criticism of newspapers’ printing of leaked classified information, it’s remarkable that congressional Republicans including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., were involved in setting up a Web site with Iraqi documents that constituted a “basic guide to building an atom bomb,” according to the New York Times. The site made public detailed information that reportedly shocked experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those who posted the information may not have realized its significance, but such an oversight is alarming. At least the site has been shut down.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
Better Democrats, but still no donkeys
Nov. 4, 20061:00 a.m.
Democrats haven’t controlled the Kansas House since 1992 — one of only three brief periods they did in the past century — but they are expected to gain a few seats on Tuesday and cut into the GOP’s powerful 83-seat majority. The Eagle editorial board certainly observed a sharp increase in the quality of area Democratic legislative candidates this year. “In the past, it’s been hard to recruit candidates. This year they were calling us wanting to run,” House Minority Leader Dennis McKinney, D-Greenburg, told Associated Press of the races across the state. “There is a lot of frustration with legislators in general and a lot of frustration over the special session we had to have.”
Maybe so, but the editorial board noticed one thing that hasn’t changed: Democrats rarely identify themselves as such on their palm cards and other campaign materials. And how about depicting a donkey to counter all the GOP candidates’ elephants? No way.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
