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November 7, 2006

Attorney General

Paul Morrison on his victory in the race for Attorney General. Enlarge video

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Democrat Paul Morrison ousted Republican Phill Kline from the attorney general's office Tuesday night, winning over voters upset with Kline for pursuing patient records from two abortion clinics.

Kline's race for a second term received national attention because of the abortion records dispute. With 51 percent of the state's precincts reporting, Morrison had 59 percent to Kline's 41 percent.

Morrison argued that Kline, an abortion opponent, had abused his office and violated patients' privacy. That argument appeared to overcome Kline's explanation that he needed the records to investigate crimes such as rapes with child victims and potentially illegal late-term abortions.

The call for Morrison in Kansas was based on a number of factors, including voter turnout, previous voting patterns, and a statistical analysis of the vote from voter interviews conducted for The Associated Press by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International.

See local Lawrence precinct results for Attorney General

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7 November 2006
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MyName (Anonymous) says…

wahoo!! sob is gone!
7 November 2006
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white_mountain (Anonymous) says…

What a relief.
7 November 2006
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willie_wildcat (Anonymous) says…

Oh happy day!!!!! Finally did Kansas wake up!
7 November 2006
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ryanjasondesch (Anonymous) says…

Now comes the part where Kline uses his remaining days in office to challenge the legality of the election, saying it wasn't Constitutional because God told him he should win and the Constitution is based on what God says, not the people. No? Makes about as much sense as the rest of his time in office. Cheers, Kansas!
7 November 2006
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Defender (Anonymous) says…

ryanjasondesch:

Thanks, now I woke up the kids from laughing too loud!

Bye Phill…ta ta
7 November 2006
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nugget (Anonymous) says…

Couldn't be happier for the citizens of Kansas to rid themselves of—and Republicans have to agree with this—an individual that was simply using the Attorney General position to champion an anti-abortion agenda. Unfortunately, that's not the job of the AG. But, don't Cryun too long for him. Prediction: Kline will be soon be rewarded for what he did with a nice paying gig at some anti-abortion political action organization. This is the way things work.
7 November 2006
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merrill (Anonymous) says…

Kline was NOT a good attorney general which is why he lost.

7 November 2006
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Defender (Anonymous) says…

nugget nailed it on the head
7 November 2006
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local_support (Anonymous) says…

Anyone else grinning ear to ear?
7 November 2006
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bthom37 (Anonymous) says…

That's good news for pretty much everyone. Except Phill. So it's good news for everyone who matters.
7 November 2006
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auraltooth (Anonymous) says…

Kline's courtroom experience is roughly tantamount to Ryan Robertson's NBA experience.
7 November 2006
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javery (Anonymous) says…

I voted for Kline in this election. I voted 'Kline for the unemployment line' that is. The AG race was the one I felt strongest about, and I've got to say that as an independent, it did influence how I voted for other candidates. Kline may well have helped sink Ryun.
7 November 2006
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drewdun (Anonymous) says…

A great day. No words. A great day.
7 November 2006
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srj (Anonymous) says…

Funny thing is Kline can have Morrisons old job if he wants it :) Seriously
7 November 2006
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nugget (Anonymous) says…

srj - That's correct, and I've followed that discussion with interest. Just my opinion, but I don't think Kline will be interested. His stock is up big time around the country with groups that support his politics, and he went out on a limb and hired an attorney with similar interests and a fairly questionable background to work in his office. He's been a solider for his crowd, and he'll be rewarded for it is my opinion. Plus, Morrison's old job just isn't the kind of work Kline is interested in and really hasn't done much of.

7 November 2006
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onceinawhile (Anonymous) says…

Thank God for the people speaking (voting) out against Kline.

So much for his last minute smear campaign!
7 November 2006
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TheOriginalCA (Anonymous) says…

All I have seen from everyone on here is a bunch of juvenile comments every time Kline does or says anything. I have never seen anything of substance on this board to date. Just a bunch of immature sing song nanny nanny boo boo.

Phil Kline did the same thing that you all's poster boy Algore did when he raised money at that Buddist Temple and did it in a legal manner, but for some reason it was awful when he did it.

As for last minute smear campaings, how about waiting until the day before election day to call for an investigation? If that is not a suspicious act of desperation I don't know what else it could be. Although they were Republicans who called for the investigation, we all know who directed them to pull this stunt the day before election day. This whole entire last year has been packed full of nationwide distortion undoubtedly directed by the DNC. You could not walk past a newspaper rack anywhere without reading a headline casting the Republicans as automatic lunatics. Who cares about 9/11 and the impact on this country and what needs to be done to prevent another attack. Who cares what it did to the economy and then you all blamed the ensuing decline in the economy on Bush and then blasted him for fighting back at the terrorists who KILLED thousands of innocent peoiple on OUR soil and then you all had the odacity to opportunistically blame Bush for it all. Remember, Clinton had Bin Laden for the taking and declined, but yet 9/11 was Bush's fault…right?
7 November 2006
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feeble (Anonymous) says…

What does Bush have to do with Kline? Nothing, if he's canny. Kline and his ilk are the reason the GOP fell short. Americans are, by and large, centrist. If you don't play to the middle, you will surely fall.
7 November 2006
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EXks (Anonymous) says…

Karma pays a visit to Kansas!

Buh Bye Kline!
Buh Bye Ryun!

thank you voters of Kansas!
7 November 2006
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onceinawhile (Anonymous) says…

TheOriginalCA -

Kline has been getting a worse-than-normal reputation the past couple weeks because of:

a) his negative, immature, and desperate last-minute campaign against Morrison,
b) the fact that his office claims to have received the infamous abortion records a mere week ago, and
c) his appearance on The O'Reilly Factor in which Bill O'Reilly pretty much admits to have heard of and/or seen parts of the abortion records.

In regards to Clinton/Bush/Sept. 11 (which has nothing to do with the attorney general race, but fine), just watch Clinton explain himself and the situation. He can explain it better than we can, don't you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyQ4A…
7 November 2006
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ryanjasondesch (Anonymous) says…

TheOriginalCA: Hot air, my friend, hot air and nothing besides. Why so upset that America just voted honesty and integrity back to Washington and to the AG office? And to be honest, I think the Democrats really did little to achieve so much. The Republicans have no one to blame but themselves for losing power tonight, its now someone elses turn, and just in time in my opinion, before people like Bush and Kline were able to destroy our country for good. Still, the Dems have their work cut out for 'em, they inheret a U.S. that was on its way down history's toilet bowl.
7 November 2006
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Pywacket (Anonymous) says…

(In my best Cartman voice): Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet, you guys!
8 November 2006
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emtid4u (Anonymous) says…

Unemployment for Phil Rex and Korby, or Jail??

I vote Jail!

8 November 2006
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jonas (Anonymous) says…

“Posted by TheOriginalCA (anonymous) on November 7, 2006 at 11:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

All I have seen from everyone on here is a bunch of juvenile comments every time Kline does or says anything. I have never seen anything of substance on this board to date. Just a bunch of immature sing song nanny nanny boo boo.”

You almost had me, until you followed this with a load of inane blather about nothing in particular. Were you having a contest to see how many baseless talking points you could fit into a single paragraph post? Jeezh
8 November 2006
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werekoala (Anonymous) says…

Wow, this has been great. Not as a mindless Democrat partisan, but as a guy who's been disgusted with the ever-shriller tone the current sect in power has been taking.

The pendulum swings slowly, but inexorably. Now it's the Democrats' turn to be plagued with corruption and scandal. And maybe, just maybe, through the midst of the chaos, we , the people, might actually find ourselves better off by the results of tonight.

Sure, it's probably only hopeful optimism that'll be dashed by the first weeks of the next session of congress. But tonight's a night for sunshine, after 6 years of doom and gloom. May we all work together to increase the light.
8 November 2006
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I_still_have_the_tapes (Anonymous) says…

Many people can say anything on the internet today and make allegations, but I have tape recordings of an Attorney General and others that proves that they are crooks. The KBI have made attempts to obtain these tapes but failed. While trying to obtain the tapes they took a sheriff and stripped him naked and left him half dead in the middle of winter. The sheriff was only trying to protect me and my mom.

In 1978 while Vern Miller from Wichita (D.A. at the time) was trying to hunt my Dad down to make him the fallguy for other peoples crimes. I came home from college at the wrong time. I heard a knock at the door and answered it. I looked at the vehicles and saw only Sedgwich County cop cars out of jurisdiction for I was in Leawood, Kansas. I asked if they had search warrants, they didn't. They just pushed me out of the way went straight to our phone and took out their illegal wire tap.

My life became a living hell after that event. I was so scared then.

As a Christian, it has been hard for me to forgive them for what they did to me for I still bear the marks. I am reminded daily. I am 49 now. The doctors said I would never marry, finish college, or ever be free to walk among people again. I proved them wrong.

Vern if you repent of your sins and are sincere of heart God will forgive you, for even a person as bad as you.

We are all made in the image of God and I wouldn't want anyone to go to hell for it is a terrible place I pray that there will be peace someday and all men can get along and fulfill the law of Christ to bear one another's burden. To care about the poor, the homeless, the less fortunate for God hears their cry and it is their cry why he returns.

For the non believer I will tell you that when you are at deaths door that even the atheist cries to God. The Death Angel has a way of making a believer out of you, but by that time it's too late.
8 November 2006
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xenophonschild (Anonymous) says…

I decided to ignore that last post; this is not the time or place.

“Dancin' days are here again!” Was more than a little concerned, because the religious right has made us so miserable for so long, and their penultimate virture was their getting-out-the-vote strength, that up until almost the end, was concerned they would somehow snatch victory from the jaws of well-deserved defeat.

Kline should go to jail. At the very least, he should lose lots of money - the immunity that covers state officials should be denied him (this could be a gift from the new Attorney General to the people of Kansas) and he should pay for abusing his office to pursue his fruitcake political agenda. An example needs to made, a lesson needs to be learned by other conservative troglodytes who would otherwise trample the law to execute their extremist agenda.
8 November 2006
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…

Patriotman? right_thinker? asbestos? lunacydetector?

You guys coming out to play today? :)

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8 November 2006
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…

I was supporting Morrision, and opposing Kline. I already said that quite a few times.
8 November 2006
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…

This election is a calssic example of winning a battle but losing the war.

Five states approved bans on same-sex marriages and the other three are apparently going down as well.

Similar laws have passed previously in all 20 states to consider them.

Arizona is predicted to approve a law making English the official language of that arid state.

Pelosi will be hamstrung as the backlash in the House will be overwhelming.

Boyda is an incompetent nitwit and now even less than powerful as junior legislators are more or less told what to do and don't get very far unless they toe the party line.

Arguments in Gonzales v. Carhart, 05-380, and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood, 05-1382 are being heard today in the Supreme Court today and with the current makeup of that erstwhile body, things don't look good for the baby killers.

You need to look at why the races went the ways that they did and you will find that you have misunderstood the real issues; those of personality rahter than action.

Although President Bush will be a lame duck this Congress will go down in history having given new definition to the term “do nothing”.

Thanks.

Marion.
8 November 2006
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juliopac (Anonymous) says…

Marion,

Why do you always end your posts with “thanks?”

8 November 2006
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Marion (Marion Lynn) says…

Implied “Thanks for reading!”

Reading the writings of others takes valuable time out of one's life and I beleive that anyone who does so deserves a hearty “Thanks!”.

Thanks.

Marion.
8 November 2006
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BrianR (Anonymous) says…

The Religious Right is the Repub Party's biggest problem, not the Dems, not the media.
8 November 2006
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ASBESTOS (Anonymous) says…

“The Religious Right is the Repub Party's biggest problem, not the Dems, not the media.”

exactly! *Christian Values* are not necessarily *Conservative political* thought.
8 November 2006
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crazyks (Anonymous) says…

You're just upset, RT, because we are going to have the first woman speaker of the house…
8 November 2006
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staff04 (Anonymous) says…

“I don't believe a word Pelosi speaks. She is a tried and true hypocrite. She may be the Dem partys's own worst enemy when everything is said and done.”

right_thinker, please elaborate. Give examples. The whole hypocrite thing doesn't float—she came to Congress as a liberal and has operated there as one. Now, in the case of the Rev. Haggard on the other hand, there are examples…
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Agnostick (Anonymous) says…

right_thinker thinks Pelosi is a hypocrite… but it was perfectly acceptable for Newt Gingrich to preach “family values” and “Contract with America” while ramming it home to his intern/mistress/future 3rd wife Calista Bisek when the TV cameras were focused somewhere else…

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Defender (Anonymous) says…

I don't believe a word right_thinker speaks. He is a tried and true hypocrite. He may be America's own worst enemy when everything is said and done.
8 November 2006
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ksmoderate (Anonymous) says…

It is comical when people try to vilify Pelosi (who may have to fight her own party to be speaker, by the way) by saying she's a “San Francisco Liberal….Ewww!”

What does that even mean? Is it because of the homosexual connotation with that town? Is it because you can't come up with anything better (read: substantial, relevant, etc.)?

Saying “San Francisco Liberal….Ewww!” reminds me of the playground in grade school. “Don't talk to Nancy, she's got cooties!”

8 November 2006
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xenophonschild (Anonymous) says…

Republicans are bad; Democrats are good. It's that simple.

Republicans had twelve years, had a mandate to bring honest vigor and competence to Congress and the White House … and failed miserably at every challenge. 9/11 - Iraq - Katrina - deficit - foreign relations - assault on science - the utter corrosion of moral values; Republicans demonstrated clearly, unequivocally that they are unfit to rule.

We have to tolerate the Chief Cowboy Idiot two more years, but he will be hamstrung into more than his usual stupidity - Karl Rove will get bored soon and desert him - and he will be a living, breathing caricature of insignificance. All we can hope for is that nothing requiring intelligent leadership from the executive branch occurs over the next two years.