After 54 years, someone from Wichita is once again governor. Mark Parkinson — a Wichita native who graduated from Wichita Heights and WSU before graduating from KU law school and moving to Olathe — was sworn in Tuesday as Kansas’ 45th governor. Parkinson will represent the entire state, of course. But here’s hoping he will be attuned to the challenges facing south-central Kansas, including Cessna Aircraft’s announcement today that it is laying off an additional 2,300 people, extending its summer shutdown and suspending its Citation Columbus program.
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Pardon me, but who was the last Wichita Guv?
I don’t know anything about Mark Parkinson, but good luck to him.
Parkinson is only attuned to his own political career. This is obvious because of his party switch.
“Regular
Posted April 29, 2009 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
Parkinson is only attuned to his own political career. This is obvious because of his party switch.”
So you would suggest a person stick to a party label even though that party’s values have changed since the person joined the party?
Kind of like a person being a Chiefs fan their entire life even though the coaches, players, plays, uniforms, and logos have all changed from what originally drew the person to be a fan?
Reggie,
“Parkinson is only attuned to his own political career. This is obvious because of his party switch.”
That’s because being ‘publican made him unelectable, as it’s doing to everybody lately.
Regarding the last “Wichita” Governor of Kansas, I guess that would be John McCuish who technically was from Newton but spent a lot of time sleeping off liquor and loose women in seedy Wichita flop houses. He was Governor for exactly eleven days and probably didn’t remember a minute of it.
The rest of the story is Fred Hall, perpetrator the “triple-play of 1956.”
The “triple play of 1956″ occurred when Warren Shaw defeated Hall in the Republican primary to select the next Kansas Governor and Shaw lost the subsequent Gubernatorial general election to Democrat George Docking. Sitting Chief Justice Bill Smith – a strong supporter of Hall – was seriously ill and contemplating a retirement from his position as Chief Justice. Smith was concerned that if he retired after Docking took office in January 1957, Docking would appoint a Democrat as Chief Justice. Smith and Hall devised a plan to prevent this from happening. Chief Justice Smith resigned on December 31, 1956. Smith’s resignation was quickly followed by Governor Hall’s resignation on January 3, 1957. As a result of Hall’s resignation, Lieutenant Governor McCuish was sworn in as Kansas Governor. The only official act of McCuish’s 11-day tenure as governor was to appoint Hall as chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.
Lawrence Tribune: “It’s nice to have another governor from Lawrence”.
Olathe Star: “It’s nice to have another governor from Olathe”.
” Cessna Aircraft’s announcement today that it is laying off an additional 2,300 people, extending its summer shutdown and suspending its Citation Columbus program”
God damn that Obama! Damn that worst president ever!!!!
Posted April 29, 2009 at 12:51 pm | Permalink
“Regular
Posted April 29, 2009 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
Parkinson is only attuned to his own political career. This is obvious because of his party switch.”
So you would suggest a person stick to a party label even though that party’s values have changed since the person joined the party?
Kind of like a person being a Chiefs fan their entire life even though the coaches, players, plays, uniforms, and logos have all changed from what originally drew the person to be a fan?
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Poor analogy…
Parkinson, at one time, was the head of the Kansas Republican Party.
If he didn’t believe in the direction the party was going, he was in power to do something about it.
He didn’t, he ran off like a greedy little weasel.
Come on now Reg, you know the God Squad would’ve removed him in a New York minute if he’d tried to move to the center.
And nice to have a U.S. Senator from Wichita. Who you say? Neither Senators Roberts nor Brownback are from Wichita.
But Senator Arlen Specter was raised in Wichita on south Emporia or St. Francis streets. Later his parents moved to Russell, Kansas in time for him to graduate from Russell High School, as I recall the story.
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Phantom
Posted April 29, 2009 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
Come on now Reg, you know the God Squad would’ve removed him in a New York minute if he’d tried to move to the center.
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I doubt it.
First off, Parkinson has repeated stated he has no ambition to run for Governor in his own right. He might be acting coy, but that doesn’t seem his style. Hardly the power-hungry megalomaniac “Regular” fantasizes about.
Still, there’s the 2010 lege to deal with and it will be interesting to see how Parkinson deals with them.
As the former chair of the KS-GOP he knows a lot of inside poop on Republic Party pols.
We’ll see if the Twice-Born continue their irrational hissy-fits over Sam (the Sham) Brownback supporting Sebelius at HHS. Will advocates of illegal abortion really turn their back on Sam? Will the Tiahrt/Moran rift become exacerbated during the Senate primary?
I’m not predicting any Democratic upsets, mind you, but CON watching will be fun in 2010.
At least Parkinson is from Kansas, not a carpetbagger from Cincinnati, the daughter of a failed Ohio governor, who happened to marry the son of a U.S. House member from Norton. I wonder if the wicked witch has been to Norton since her father-in-law’s funeral in 1983.
Regular, you are right on the money about weasel Parkinson. He changed parties for political expediency, just like John Moore, just like Arlen Specter, just like Joan Finney, just like Dr. Bill Roy. He could have run for governor himself in 2006 and done better than Barnett. Instead, he groveled to the evil witch. Now, he has shifted his views hard to the left to be in total agreement with the evil witch.
Now is Parkinson’s chance to show he’s his own man, not a puppet of $ebeliu$. It reminds me of LOSER-ANA in the 1930s, when Huey Long was elected to the U.S. Senate while sitting governor, yet he still flew to Baton Rouge to control the legislature. Of course, $ebeliu$ will never set foot in Kansas again, unless it’s to worship at the altar of Sugar Daddy Tiller the Killer. Then again, I’m sure Tiller the Killer will come to Washington to visit his political sponsor, spend some time at the White House, and beg Obama to restore federal marshal protection like he had when Slick Willy was in office.
1) People who now live in Johnson County don’t brag about being from Wichita.
2) One of the Columbine killers was born in Wichita.