A house divide…well you know
What’s the matter with Kansas? Plenty it seems. This is rich, and well worth the read, you will love the intrigue, where Johnson Counties Democratic District Attorney thumps the Republican Attorney General in the polls, and I mean thumped. What do the Republican’s do next? Why they give the defeated and humiliated Attorney General his opponents old job, which got under the skirt of Kansas Governor Katherine Sebelius (D). Even better, the moderate Republicans were miffed and walked out causing a split in the once untied Republican Party of Kansas. Swear I didn’t make this up. Seems there might be hope for Kansas after all. I love the smell of Republican implosion in the morning.
Phill Kline is not one to slink away — and the ideological wars inside the Kansas Republican Party show no sign of ending.
The fiercely antiabortion Republican attorney general in Kansas lost his reelection bid in November when moderate Republicans voted in droves for Paul Morrison, a longtime Johnson County district attorney who became a Democrat in hopes of vanquishing Kline.
Statewide, Kline got barely 4 in 10 votes. In Johnson County, the state’s most populous county, his loss was more dramatic. That made it especially shocking after the election when Republican precinct leaders in the county chose Kline to finish the final two years of Morrison’s term as prosecutor.
Posted on December 29th, 2006 by George Sand
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Time: December 30, 2006, 11:12 am
Add to that the fact that the republicans lost another “safe” congressional seat in Kansas….the Dems now own 2 of 4. Johnson County, KS, which is basically suburban Kansas City, is a prime example of moderate republicans becoming fed up with the lock social conservatives have on their party structure. Fed up enough to vote Democrat. Do you suppose we saw a little evidence of the same in NWA on election day?
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