Topeka ? Democrat Chris Biggs today said he will not seek a rematch against Atty. Gen. Phill Kline in the 2006 election.

Biggs, currently the Kansas Securities Commissioner, said he decided to pass up a statewide campaign in favor of spending time with his wife Denise, and their three-year-old son Ben.

“Ben will only be a little kid for only a short time, and I want to be there,” Biggs said.

In the 2002 race for attorney general, Biggs, then Geary County prosecutor and virtually unknown on the statewide political scene, nearly beat Kline, a well-known Republican, in a highly contentious race. Kline won by less than one percentage point.

In 2003, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, appointed Biggs to the securities post.

Kline has already said he intends to run for re-election.

While declining to challenge Kline, Biggs said he was confident that Kline will be defeated next year.