Former Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline told a Johnson County district judge on Jan. 8 that he wouldn’t take any abortion records, copies, summaries or notes with him when he left office. Yet the very next day, his office mailed summaries and other documents to Kline’s new office in Virginia — though the mailing was returned because of an incomplete address.
An attorney for Kline said it was an unintentional mistake that the records were shipped to Virginia. If so, that’s one monster of a mistake — though it’s in keeping with how badly Kline mishandled these records.
Court testimony has revealed that the records were stored at times in a subordinate’s dining room and in a car trunk. In December, the Kansas Supreme Court scolded Kline for his “grossly incompetent” handling of the records and said that he exhibited little, if any, respect for the rule of law.
Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., must be the loneliest man in Congress about now. Not that he deserves otherwise, given how his every statement only fuels questions about how he came to be appointed by since-impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich to the Senate seat. Lately Burris has even seemed to suggest that trying to raise money for the ex-governor was defensible because he found no willing donors. The Chicago Sun-Times 
“There are nine bodies — all of them young men — that have been lying in a Mumbai hospital morgue since Nov. 29,” 
“A wonky, reassuring-looking politician who can navigate a centrist version of health care reform through Congress while igniting as little partisan fire as possible from either side.” — Follow us
