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Editorial – Dem AG Hood’s ‘Appearance of Inpropierty’ Ship has Sailed
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 12:18 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 20 February 2008 11:36
This chapter of Jim Hood’s career may have achieved critical mass. He may soon be viewed with other former Democrat Attorneys General like Peg Lautenschlager (Pleads guilty to drunk driving), Charles Foti (Katrina Cases’ Backlash Hurts LA AG), and Paul Morrison (Sexual harassment and undue influence). Stay tuned.
He’s granted TV and newspaper interviews in which he dismissed suggestions that he return campaign funds donated by at least three sources who have already entered plea bargains in a federal judicial bribery probe. He suggested that it was unfair for him to be asked to return the donations because Republicans had taken political action committee donations and that: “There’s a danger in our politics, when people, corporations are able to buy offices that belong to the people.”That reference came after Hood railed about “big corporations” circumventing Mississippi laws prohibiting campaign contributions over $1,000 by making legal PAC donations exceeding that amount – which is true. But in the same breath, Hood draws a distinction between PAC donations from “big corporations” and the $400,000 in legal campaign contributions he received from the Democratic Attorneys General Association’s PAC – which is the same amount donated by Oxford attorney Dickie Scruggs and Booneville attorney Joey Langston.
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KS: New AG Hopes to Restore Stability After Disgraced Dem AG Leaves Office
Last Updated on Monday, 11 February 2008 04:39 Written by rslcpol Monday, 11 February 2008 11:44
General Six may not be running for re-election, but gosh darn it he’s going to buy some new computers for the office before he leaves. Oh, and restore things like integrity, honesty, and dignity back to the office.
TOPEKA | When Stephen Six was named Kansas attorney general, few people outside Lawrence had heard of him.Six, 42, had never held political office. But Kansans can expect to get to know Six as his office serves the people as the state’s law firm.
The former Douglas County judge replaces Paul Morrison, who resigned after one year in the wake of a sex scandal. Six, a Democrat, is the state’s third attorney general in just more than a year.
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KS: Disgraced Dem AG Needs To Decide On Campaign Funds
Last Updated on Monday, 28 January 2008 02:00 Written by rslcpol Monday, 28 January 2008 12:04
There’s a quote line in this article from Mr. Morrisson’s spokesperson saying that “We know the rules”. Ha, if that was the case he wouldn’t even be dealing with this whole mess.
TOPEKA – Attorney General Paul Morrison, who is leaving office over a sex scandal, must decide what to do with the money in his campaign account.State law allows Morrison to return the $49,800 in his attorney general campaign account to donors or give it to a charity, political organization or state government.
“He’s talking about charities,” said Ashley Anstaett, spokeswoman for Morrison. “We know the rules, but we haven’t decided yet.”
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KS: Office Politics and The New AG
Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 January 2008 02:51 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 22 January 2008 12:36
You know Governor Sebelius’s folks thought they had a slam dunk bringing a judge in – judges are beyond reproach, unlike District Attorneys, we guess. But, their calculus was pretty uneven. A better political thinker would’ve been thinking about Paul Morrison’s replacement the minute the story on his dalliances broke – and not after he stepped up to the podium and resigned. Then, they’d have someone to restore the integrity and trust to the office that the Democrats torched, navigate the political minefield that surrounds the office of attorney general in Kansas, and raise the money needed to mount a true re-election campaign. What an opening Governor Sebelius has created for a prospective Republican A.G. candidate…and we have a great idea on who it’s going to be. Stay tuned Kansas….
Topeka — Democrats have put their hopes of keeping the attorney general’s office in Stephen Six, even though they acknowledge he hasn’t developed the political skills he needs.Six, a Douglas County district judge, has never run for elected office, but Gov. Kathleen Sebelius appointed him attorney general last week. He’ll take over Jan. 31 for Paul Morrison, who’s stepping down because of a sex scandal.
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KS: Six Named New AG
Last Updated on Friday, 18 January 2008 04:41 Written by rslcpol Friday, 18 January 2008 04:41
No silly, Kathleen Sebelius didn’t just win the indecisiveness award for 2008 by picking 6 folks to clean up after Democrat A.G. Paul Morrison- but she did pick a judge – a complete 180 from heart throb Paul Morrison.
Topeka — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday appointed Douglas County District Judge Stephen Six as the next attorney general to replace Paul Morrison, who will leave office amid a sex and ethics scandal.
“I’m confident that in Judge Six, the people of Kansas have an attorney general dedicated to ensuring that the people’s law firm is led both effectively and responsibly with character and integrity,” Sebelius said in introducing Six to a packed news conference in the Capitol.
Did you hear that sound? That was Kansas’s Democrat Governor throwing her first choice for A.G. under one of these. Wonder if Paul Morrison will leave the Democrat party for another party now that his friends have dumped him?
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KS: No AG Pick This Week
Last Updated on Friday, 11 January 2008 02:21 Written by rslcpol Friday, 11 January 2008 11:13
It used to be that people who were up for high level Presidential appointments were screened to make sure they didn’t have any nanny issues. Well, now in Kansas it looks like they have to screen for other issues as well. The last thing Governor Sebelius wants on her hands is another embarrassment to follow Paul Morrison’s down fall.
They had speculated that Sebelius would make the appointment before the Legislature begins its annual session Monday. Attorney General Paul Morrison resigned last month amid a sex scandal and will leave office Jan. 31.“What we’re doing is taking, I think, appropriate time to look at the talent pool available,” Sebelius said during a news conference. “There will not be an announcement this week. Everybody take a deep breath.”
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KS: Political Drama in 2008
Last Updated on Friday, 4 January 2008 01:20 Written by rslcpol Friday, 4 January 2008 12:52
Thank you Democrat Attorney General Paul Morrison!
Topeka — An explosive sex scandal, tough-to-solve problems, and election year politics will be the main ingredients mixing it up this year at the state level.Lawmakers returning for their legislative session Jan. 14 will spend more than three months hammering out new laws and building records to show off on the campaign trail.
Awaiting their arrival in the Statehouse are health care reforms, increased spending requests for education and social services, numerous hot-button items, and a new political atmosphere.
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KS: Securities Commissioner Mentioned Often As AG Replacement
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 December 2007 03:08 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:37
Biggs finally gets his shot at the office after losing to Kline in 02 despite a late surge from special interest money.
Topeka — Democrats frequently name Securities Commissioner Chris Biggs as a potential replacement for Attorney General Paul Morrison, who is leaving office because of a sex scandal.
Biggs is most often mentioned for appointment by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius because he is a former Geary County prosecutor who almost won the attorney general’s race in 2002.
Meanwhile, District Attorney Nola Foulston is saying no thanks
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KY: AG Works With ‘To Catch A Predator’
Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 October 2007 03:54 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:05
Well here’s a Democrat finally doing something right when it comes to internet predators. What a refreshing thing to see – after all Kansas’ Democrat A.G. Paul Morrison was annoyed with the Dateline approach to keeping these animals away our kids. Up to this point it seemed like Dems across the country were all on the same page about internet predators – they opposed trying to stop them.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo said seven men, including five from Tennessee, were arrested during a weekend Internet sex sting.The attorney general’s office worked with local authorities in Warren County and an Internet watchdog group to conduct the operation.
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KS: ‘To Catch A Predator’ Annoys AG’s Office
Last Updated on Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:48 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:50
As you read the article, one of the problems that the Democrat A.G.s office has with this groundbreaking program (no, we’re not getting any kickbacks so don’t get all investigatie (not a word) on us) is that the show discloses the “techniques” used by law enforcement to catch these online scumbags. To quote a recent automaker media campaign – “Duh!”.
“While these shows may get headlines and embarrass people, they may not always get the results law enforcement would in the same scenario,” said Ashley Anstaett, spokeswoman for Attorney General Paul Morrison’s office, which runs the state cyber-sex crime unit….
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