South-central Kansans don’t know much about the state’s new attorney general, Stephen Six. His resume looks solid, if somewhat brief — Douglas County District Court judge, former private attorney, former clerk for a U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge, son of retired Kansas Supreme Court Justice Fred Six. For now, it’s enough that his selection today by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius puts a welcome period at the end of the sad story of Paul Morrison’s sex scandal and resignation.
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Stephen Six, sounds too much like Stephen Sex, the RW won’t be having that.
Don’t know much about the man. It looks like his duty as a Judge will definitely help him as he has seen most sides of the courtroom.
Showing my age a bit; when I read the article in the morning Eagle, I thought they were talking about Fred Six, the new appointee’s father and now retired Kansas Supreme Court justice, with whom I was acquainted in my days at KU when he was in private practice. It wasn’t until I read the article that I found the “Six” being discussed was the son.
Sebelius likes political legacies. She are one.
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Vaughn Tolle
Posted January 18, 2008 at 2:18 pm | Permalink
Showing my age a bit; when I read the article in the morning Eagle, I thought they were talking about Fred Six, the new appointee’s father and now retired Kansas Supreme Court justice, with whom I was acquainted in my days at KU when he was in private practice. It wasn’t until I read the article that I found the “Six” being discussed was the son.
Vaughn Tolle,
Territorial laws were much different back then before statehood eh? :cool:
Yea, and VT and I were on opposing sides during the Quantrill/Jayhawker fighting!
:)
This appointment of replacement Attorney General by Governor Sebelius robs the citizens of Kansas of an independent voice, a check and balance, against an errant or even out of control Governor. An elected Kansas Attorney General does provide this independent voice in our Kansas government.
As I understand it, the Governor makes this appointment unilaterally with no oversight by the Kansas legislature.
I acknowledge the shortcomings of an expensive special election. But I think the Governor’s appointment should be subject to overview by the Kansas legislature, perhaps by the Kansas Senate, to allow public review of the appointee’s qualifications before finalizing the appointment.
JWink,
It’s in the Kansas Constitution. If you don’t like the process, get your Republican caucus to come up with the 2/3 vote in each chamber it takes to change it.
Sebelius has no say over Constitutional amendments – they go straight to the voters at the next statewide election. Shouldn’t be a problem for you, since that’s going to be the August primary.
Stop whining. Get busy.
Kathy told me I was gonna get the job!
Seven,
You’re (obviously) next in line.
I’ll bet Operation Rescue is working overtime to find some dirt on this guy so they can file frivolous charges on him to get him disbarred.
It is my understanding that Six will complete Morrison’s term, which means that he will run for election in 2010.
It appears Mr. Six doesn’t have much legal experience. He just graduated from Law School about ten years or so ago.
By putting in an inexperienced person as attorney general Sebelius will have more control. He will also owe her. Liberals were upset with the lack of experience Phill Kline had they should be just as upset over the lack of experience here. But then again for liberals it is always a one way street.
It is not a very insightful commentary to criticize AG Six as inexperienced on the sole basis of number of years in practice since law school. AG Six has invaluable experience that many older lawyers never obtain – that of being an impartial, hard-working and intelligent trial judge. Before then, he had many years of experience handling difficult, intense trial litigation on behalf of injured people with one of the most accomplished and highly respected law firms in Kansas. Having had good teachers and mentors there, as well as learning through “trial by fire” in the courtroom, are experiences that the vast majority of lawyers never receive, despite years of experience behind a desk.
JWink,
Tell us: Exactly how math-impaired are you? Six graduated from law school in 1993 (second in his class), not 1998. That’s a 50% margin of error on your part. Not so good, huh?
At least he didn’t on-again, off-again “forget” to renew his law license, like your boy Kline seemed to have trouble with. And at least he’s actually practiced law his whole career, unlike Kline, who made a career out of running for one office or another.
Good grief. When the facts won’t do the trick, lie. Typical so-called “conservative” bs.
Kelly and Tom: Sorry but you both have made assumptions.
1) First of all, I received excellent grades in all advanced mathematics/engineering courses in undergraduate school … so I am not math impaired as you suggest. However, I didn’t have a copy of the newspaper at hand to check his graduation year.
2) I am a “moderate” Republican so the right winger Republicans such as Mr. Kline are not “my boys.”
3) You boys, Kelly and Tom, spokemen for the left wing, seem to have inside information on Stephen Six. I do commend him for graduating second in his 1993 law school class.
4) Mr. John Shamburg, namesake of Stephen Six’s former law firm, was a neighbor and friend of mine for several years. Great fellow, a Democrat, originally from Hutchinson, legal intern for Kansas judge (Huxman?), with tremendous legal experience. At one time, John would have been a fine candidate for Kansas Attorney General.
Tom, I resent your implication that I told a deliberate lie. Like George Washington, I’ve never knowingly told a lie in my life. How about you?
What assumption have I made, JWink? I know Stephen Six as a fellow trial lawyer, and I am well acquainted with the Shamburg firm. I have never appeared in front of him as a judge, but I have heard the positive comments the Douglas Cty DA has said about him – I think Charles Branson is his name – and he and his assistants presumably have appeared many times in front of Judge Six.
Jwink,
If you’re posting on this blog, you have an internet connection. If you have an internet connection, you can read Kansas papers like KC Star, LJ World, Cap Journal, and the Eagle, all for free. All you would have needed to do is read pretty much ANY of the articles on Six’s background, and you would have found yourself able to post an accurate, well-informed post about our soon-to-be AG. Instead, you spew so-called “conservative” smear/talking points as though they were fact. And you wonder why your honesty is called into question?
Oh my.
It does seem odd that Morrison was a Republican, albeit a moderate one, became a Democrat to get elected Attorney General and then announced that he was having an affair and resigned. How odd indeed!
Tom,
Do you belive everything you read in the papers?
Kelly and Tom: What part of my comment above did you not read? I said I am a moderate Republican, not a conservative Republican EXCEPT when it comes to pointing out wasteful spending by arrogant office holders, Republican or Democrat. So I am not “spewing conservative talking points” whatever they are. I suspect you are spewing the liberal, left wing talking points trying to ingratiate yourselves with the new AG.
Not being lawyers like you, I don’t have an especial interest in the track record of the new attorney general. I expect tomorrow’s Wichita EAGLE will carry a story about Mr. Six that will explain his career to we, the non-lawyer public.
I did read a story or hear a radio report about him a couple days ago that led me to believe he had only been out of law school a few years. A fourteen or fifteen year career might seem like an eternity to you.
In my opinion, the Attorney General’s position should be filled by a long time attorney who has been through the ropes in a long successful career who brings an element of professionalism to the office. Perhaps Mr. Six can do this … only time will tell.
I have known or at least met most Kansas governors and attorney generals since about 1960. I recall meeting John Anderson, former attorney general and then Governor in 1960. In the early 1990’s, I used to occasionally visit with Mr. Anderson about Kansas history on Saturday mornings sitting on logs out near Desoto, Kansas.
I’m busy so I try to limit blogging to early morning and news time in evenings. Unlike lawyers on the WE Blog, I don’t have time to blog throughout the business day.
As far as honesty, I will put my honesty and ethics up against both of you … I guarantee you I will come out ahead every time.
I never accused you of dishonesty, sir, only of not having submitted a very insightful analysis. You are the first to insert into this thread my honesty and integrity (and I am quite proud of my character – professional and political) into this debate – which only proves how short you come out on that measure of character.
Kelly: Apparently you and Tom come from the Bill Clinton school. That is, scatter lots of words in all directions … when a simple apology would do.