"...long way from Ms. Sebelius (carpet bagger from OH.)"
She is the daughter of the infamous John Gilligan-RATgovernor of Ohio. We have him to thank for instituting the state income tax (for the children, doncha know). She's just another RAT/lib/socialist/NAG HAG ala Hillary.
Heads up to KS freepers, if your judicial area doesn't yet have the right for judges to actually run for office, please sign the petitions going around in those 52 areas. We are told by liberal elites that "that the appointment process is non-partisan" implying that elections, where you can actually look at a potential candidates record, then hold his/her promises against them at election time, is somehow unseeemly and demeaning.
Trust me, after looking at the appointment process, who is on those committees and how truly backroom good ole boy politics this process is, makes me ill.
In my area, Paul Morrisson, Jo Co AG is head of the appointment committee (he should NEVER be in the position of selecting judges for whom he will try cases) appoints people who donate sums of $$$ toward politicians with whom he has a relationship!
He has changed his party from RINO Republican to democRAT to challenge the current KS AG Phill Kline.
Phill needs all the help ($$$ and votes in Nov) he can muster, as Paul Morrisson is heavily funded from every trial lawyer in the country.