Wow. Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole didn’t mince words in a ferocious e-mail he sent last week to Scott McClellan:
“There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues,†Dole wrote. “No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits and, spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique.â€
But Dole was just getting warmed up: “In my nearly 36 years of public service I’ve known of a few like you. No doubt you will ‘clean up’ as the liberal anti-Bush press will promote your belated concerns with wild enthusiasm. When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, ‘Biting The Hand That Fed Me.’â€
Tell us how you really feel, Bob. If nothing else, he’s proved that he can still get in touch with his inner mean streak.
Sunflower Electric Power Corp. said months ago that it needed a go-ahead by June 1 if the Holcomb expansion was to be built. That urgency helped propel the passage of three bills during the legislative session, which brought three vetoes from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. But it turns out the deadline, credited to Sunflower president and chief executive officer Earl Watkins, wasn’t one. “The reason Earl used a June 1 date through the session is because there’s going to be a time that Tri-State and Golden Spread might say ‘We’ve got to do something else,’†Sunflower spokesman Steve Miller told Harris News Service, referring to project investors Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association of Colorado and Golden Spread Electric Cooperative of Texas. For now, the issue is a matter for the courts and a regulatory appeals process.
Best wishes to former Mayor Bob Knight as he recovers from heart attack symptoms he experienced just a week before the unraveling of his bid to open a Mulvane casino in partnership with MGM and Foxwoods. Meanwhile, Knight remains in the hunt for a Ford County casino, in the Dodge City Resort and Gaming Co. partnership that also involves Wichita attorney Steve Joseph, media owner Larry Steckline and his wife, former Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall Steckline. The group’s proposal, one of two for Ford County endorsed last week by the Kansas Lottery Commission, calls for a $92.3 million Western-themed hotel-and-casino complex near Dodge City complete with three rodeo arenas. “If Branson, Mo., can do it, Dodge City can do it, too,†Joseph said.
Old Cowtown Museum might have to go back to the drawing board in its months-long search for a new director.
Vice Mayor Sue Schlapp told The Eagle editorial board that the search committee has interviewed several finalists but hasn’t yet found someone who is the right fit.
“We’re wanting to make sure we get the right director who understands what our vision is,†she said.
She added that there’s not as much of a rush to fill the position, now that the council has delayed plans to build a new theater at the living history museum.
Still, the attraction needs strong leadership and new ideas. We hope Cowtown finds the right person soon.
Wow. Former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole didn’t mince words in a ferocious e-mail he sent last week to Scott McClellan:
