Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list... http://cagle.com/news/abortion/aborgifs1/26.gif
Posted on 01/09/2007 10:33:23 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
The newly elected Kansas attorney general fired a special prosecutor Tuesday whom his predecessor had appointed to prosecute the state's most visible abortion provider.
Don McKinney had been hired to investigate Dr. George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions. McKinney has previously protested outside Tiller's clinic. His last day will be Saturday.
"You are further ordered to cease and desist any further activity in this matter," Attorney General Paul Morrison wrote in a letter to McKinney.
McKinney said he had been fired to "protect the abortion clinics."
"Morrison said he would fire me because I was not a 'neutral third party.' That's a smoke screen," McKinney said. "Nobody is neutral about aborting late-term babies. A special prosecutor isn't supposed to be neutral, he's supposed to prosecute the defendant." He has said Morrison was beholden to the doctor, who helped finance at least $248,000 in advertising in 2002 and 2006 against the previous attorney general, Phill Kline.
Kline obtained patient records from Tiller and other abortion providers after a two-year legal battle, but his attempt to charge Tiller in Sedwick County late last month failed because of a jurisdiction issue.
Kline alleges that Tiller performed 15 illegal late-term abortions in 2003 on patients ages 10 to 22 and failed to properly report the details of the procedures to state health officials.
Tiller's attorneys say the allegations are groundless. Don Monnat, a Wichita attorney representing Tiller, said patient privacy remains a big concern because McKinney has protested against the doctor.
A legal battle over patient records lasted two years, with Kline obtaining edited versions in October. Kline issued a statement Tuesday saying Morrison "fired an independent prosecutor with a well-respected legal career and terminated a contract that provided that prosecutor with independent authority."
In Kline we had about the worst possible GOP politician and it still didn't help. He got creamed.
If that's true then how come the best Kline could do was try and slip a few misdemeanor charges past the local district attorney?
I'm curious. When does a human become an "individual", in your world-view? When they're conceived? When they're born? When they turn seven? When they start paying taxes? Honest question.
Doubtful. Everyone knows where he stands and everyone knows where Phill Kline stands, and Morrison still beat Kline by 17 points.
Kline, by the way, is busy cleaning out Morrison's old staff in the Johnson County DA's office. Of the 30 prosecutors 3 left with Morrison and 7 have been fired. Hope Phill leaves enough ADAs to actually prosecute some crimes.
Since we have a huge RINO faction here in KS we have to sift through the rhetoric to find the undercover libs. Morrison is an example of this 'til he came out of the closet and ran as a dem. So there are GOP politicians who are lower than RATs.
Kline maybe sucks as a politician but his job performance as AG was very good. So I guess you have to be a good politician to be elected/reelected reguardless of when people say they're tired of politics/politicians.
Kline sucks as a politician is right. He got beaten by Dennis Moore, barely won election as AG in the first place against a totally unfunded unknown, and then got creamed in November. After his two years in Johnson County are up I have no idea what he's going to do. And I doubt he does as well.
Which number do YOU mourn over?
1973 |
744,600 |
1974 |
898,600 |
1975 |
1,034,200 |
1976 |
1,179,300 |
1977 |
1,316,700 |
1978 |
1,409,600 |
1979 |
1,497,700 |
1980 |
1,553,900 |
1981 |
1,577,300 |
1982 |
1,573,900 |
1983 |
1,575,000 |
1984 |
1,577,200 |
1985 |
1,588,600 |
1986 |
1,574,000 |
1987 |
1,559,100 |
1988 |
1,590,800 |
1989 |
1,566,900 |
1990 |
1,608,600 |
1991 |
1,556,500 |
1992 |
1,528,900 |
1993 |
1,495,000 |
1994 |
1,423,000 |
1995 |
1,359,400 |
1996 |
1,360,160 |
1997 |
1,335,000 |
1998 |
1,319,000 |
1999 |
1,314,800 |
2000 |
1,312,990 |
2001 |
1,303,000 |
2002 |
1,293,000 |
2003 |
1,293,000 |
2004 |
1,293,000 |
2005 |
1,293,000 |
|
|
45,905,750 |
The new way rich people get off for crimes -- contribute enough money to elect their buddies to drop the charges.
Yup, not only (alas) is our new AG a demonRAT, but his campaign warchest was filled with a donation of over half a million from Tiller the Killer.
I hope we have some surviving Republican newspapers in the state with investigative journalism capacities. If a Republican state AG called off a special prosecutor tasked with investigating his largest campaign contributor, the local media, and probably the national media, even if it happened out here in 'fly-over country', would be all over it.
He's worse than a dem. He's a RINO who was elected several times as DA in the state's richest county and then switched to being a dem to run against Kline. He claims to be a Catholic and has several children. He also claims to be anti abortion but, I guess, in a nice way.
Yeah, but he's Attorney General RINO now. While Kline's probably out of elective office for good.
Not the way to proceed. The AG was bought off, but so was the Governor. Tiller gave 100K to the Democratic Governors Association. Our Governor was just voted the president of the....Democratic Governors Association.
There has been zero reporting of the blatant corruption. The only reporting gets down from the viewpoint of how Kline and the right to life folks are fanatics.
What is needed is a conservative alternative in the print media; one asking the right questions and doing the investigative reporting.
I am pitching a business plan to investors to get just that going. It is more than just this topic. Kansas is getting turned from red to blue despite itself. The liberal media is daily brainwashing people into believing the exact opposite of what they do. Soon you will be able to tell them anything.
A Nancy Pelosi Democrat. Good Lord!
He's been banned, I believe.
Why is it that every other medical professional is supposedly required to report to the state... abuse except this person?
An abortionist donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a Democrat elected Attorney General of Kansas, and the new AG immediately fires the independent prosecutor who was investigating illegal abortions performed by said abortionist. If that isn't a "culture of corruption" (not to mention a "culture of death"), I don't know what is.
I'm sick.
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list... http://cagle.com/news/abortion/aborgifs1/26.gif
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.