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Posted on 11/09/2006 4:26:42 PM PST by wagglebee
WICHITA, Kansas, November 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline lost the Attorney General race 42% to 58% on Tuesday to Democrat Paul Morrison, a vehement supporter of abortion. In the past few years, Kline has garnered national attention and pro-life support for his investigation into local abortion clinics and their concealment of probable child rape cases and the performance of illegal late-term abortions.
Kline had just recently been granted access to 90 medical records from abortionist George Tiller’s Women Health Care Services and the Kansas Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park. Access was given only after a judge ruled that there was ‘probable cause’ that Kansas law had been violated by the clinics.
Under current Kansas law, clinics must report suspected child sexual abuse to the State. The age of consent in Kansas is 16. Late-term abortions, after the 22nd week of pregnancy are only legal if the health of the mother is in danger.
Morrison used the clinic investigations as part of his political platform saying that Kline had “misplaced priorities” and that, if elected, he would drop the investigation to focus on other issues. When asked about investigations, he said, “We don’t use them for fishing expeditions so that we can thumb through medical records and find out who has what procedure done to them.”
It has recently surfaced that Morrison’s campaign was assisted financially by donations from abortionist Tiller’s own Political Action Committee, ProKanDo. ProKanDo was founded by Tiller specifically to assist pro-abortion candidates seeking election.
Campaign mailings that slammed Kline professionally for the investigations, referring to him as “Snoop Dog Kline”, came from the organization Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection (KFCPP). According to official State incorporation registration records, KFCPP and Tiller’s own PAC share the same suite number at the same office address. The campaign mailings attempted to conceal this link by displaying a different return address on the mailing materials.
KFCPP is not registered with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission but does not technically have to register because it is not officially advocating for or against any specific candidate. It is incorporated in the state of Kansas as a non-profit organization. The IRS code forbids a non-profit organization from campaigning for a political candidate.
Julie Burkhart serves simultaneously as director of ProKanDo and KFCPP.
Mark Simpson, campaign manager for Morrison said that their campaign did not know anything about KFCPP. He also said the identity of the organization is unclear.
Kline’s supporters view Morrison’s campaign pledge to halt the clinic investigations as a conflict of interest considering his involvement and financial connection to Tiller.
Of the election results, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said, “[Kansas] has voted to ignore violations of Kansas law that bans post viability abortions. That vote has bloodied the hands of the Kansans who cast those votes.”
See Related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Abortion Clinic Caught Shredding Documents as Kansas Court Considers Mandating Records Release
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05090601.html
Kansas Investigation into Child Rape Blocked by Two Secret Abortion Clinics
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022505.html
Kansas Abortion Clinic Sends Another Woman to Hospital Weeks After Reported Death
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05021802.html
Autopsy Reveals a Delay in Care Responsible for Teen’s Botched Abortion Death
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091608.html
Kerry Campaign Funded with Partial Birth Abortion Fees
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/oct/04100403.html
Thanks for the ping!
It's been a long battle here between the moderate GOP from the city suburbs, and the conservatives.
Kansas has always been partial to moderate Govenors. Graves, Hayden, Bennet Docking, Carlin, Sebelius and Finney were all fairly moderate and many were dems.
I'll tell you what got the moderates really fired up in this state, it was when the religious conservatives got elected to the state school board and started the whole creation/evolution in the curriculum argument.. Up until then, the conservatives kept the taxes low, and were considered fairly harmless, but when the moderates started getting embarassed nationally, they asserted more control.
Jim Ryun was my rep, and they put him in their sights and this time they got him.
I'll ask what the Left famously asked a couple of years back: What's the matter with Kansas?
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Good question.
This is a GREAT idea! Your idea needs to be sent out all over and organized to the point where there is someone with one of these outside every abortion clinic in this nation at ALL TIMES...
I love this idea!
Billy Kess
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Great idea. We used to hand out pamphlets describing fetal development at each month; but this would be much more effective.
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