Kline Surrogates get filthy on Howe

I retrieved the mail last night to find a completely nasty direct mail piece from a surrogate group of the Phill Kline campaign. It came from the "Victim's Voice Foundation, Inc" complete with a PO box in Lenexa for an address and not so much as an email address of phone number.

They are mentioned in a blog/website of Jill Stanek of Oak Lawn, Illinois who writes in this link about how the nationwide pro-life movement needs to support Kline and seeks to raise $300K in the final days of the campaign. She is correct in The Star's hatred of Kline....no doubt she got that one right.

I read in the paper this morning that Kline is getting a lot of help and interest from the Right to Life groups and featured a quote from James Dobson....the comb-over king of the evangelical right's Focus on the Family. Taking on Planned Parenthood appears to be good for business for Kline and I'm guessing even IF he loses this primary or election he'll have plenty of work in those organizations and probably at much better wages. In fact.....in a little digression I think this is part of Kline's longterm plan. Win or lose now, he will cash in with the right to life group as their hero and lawyer showing up in towns all over the country on their nickel to challenge abortion law, gay rights, whatever.....the Gloria Alred of the conservative evangelicals. I wouldn't be surprised to see Tim Golba's hands all over this thing.

Anyway, the campaign flyer states with a picture of scared woman on the front, "When prosecutors make mistakes.....Murderers go free.

The inside of the flyer is pretty large so I'll put it into 2 part but it is a tri fold. It features a Willie Horton type picture of the perp.......incredibly dirty.

The left panel of this trifold shows a picture of Steve Howe and this dim lighting of the picture is pretty accurate....it isn't just my scanner:

The back looks like this for a final little dig.........

So, this is some dirty little antics by Phill Kline. Now, Kline will say this isn't from him but you know absolutely he knows about everything done by these groups, is directing these groups, and should take responsibility for them. He won't. This is the way the game is played.

Within the context of the positive ads from Kline I heard on the radio this morning where he doesn't even mention Steve Howe but talks about his own record it is very interesting.

This, from an academic standpoint, is a very good strategy on Kline's part. If I were Howe, I'd play to where the money is coming from and ask Kline to denounce this types of ads. It is also very close to election day when there is very little time to respond. I missed the radio debate this morning....some of us have to work.

I have also been peppered recently from Kline's campaign with automated phone surveys. It must cost quite a bit run something like that....wonder who is paying for it? Anyway, it always asks if I'm voting and if I consider myself a conservative, if I am pro-life and if I know that Phill Kline is taking on Planned Parenthood.

Does stuff like this make you less likely to vote for Phill Kline? It has been said that nobody gets the opposition out to vote like Phill Kline.

You all mark my words here and now....win or lose.....Phill Kline will get rich by working with these groups in the coming years in the private sector. He is a courageous hero to the pro-life community in the US. Unfortunately, they have claimed an incredibly flawed and somewhat sleazy person for that role.

If Planned Parenthood violated the law I want them prosecuted and it does seem like Planned Parenthood is just trying to run out the clock on Phill Kline. I wonder if it will work?

Are you supporting Kline or Howe in the this race?

Has Kline gone mad? Stilwell loses vote to incorporate

I am a conservative Republican and am pretty much in lock step with the agenda. On some issues I'm even a little more radical. I want the government out of my life as much as possible.

I read today that Phil Kline has now flip flopped and decided to run for election as Johnson County Prosecutor. This is unfortunate. We all know the infighting that has been going on too long within the Johnson County Republican party. The Mods and Conservs are fighting over control of the party and while as a rule the conservatives have enjoyed control of the party infrastructure the Republican electorate has become increasingly moderate. So, the conservatives pick the candidates and the rank and file republicans vote for a moderate democrat instead. Unfortunately, the conservatives refuse to get the message and promote more moderate candidates.

So, Kline who has minimized his support to only the pro-life crowd has somehow decided there are enough of them to elect him. He is wrong. I like the quote today in the paper saying something like Kline has a strong ability to get people who don't like him to vote. His only goal in life is to pursue the Planned Parenthood case. Look, we need a real mechanism to make sure that children who are seeking these services haven't been raped or violated by family or friends. If crimes happened they need to be prosecuted but Phil has politicized to the point where it has no credibility. Why can't it be just like a gun shot at the hospital? In every case the police need to be called. In each case where an underage girl requests an abortion why can't they have someone review it and make sure there isn't incest, rape, etc? Relying on PP to report it isn't going to happen and children need to be protected but let's get the politics out of it.

Kline should have honored his word and not sought a full term as prosecutor. Tim Golba seems clearly thrilled. I'm against abortion as well but not in the militant way Mr. Golba pursues it. It is very rare that I speak out against a fellow Republican other than John Toplikar but he should have stepped aside and now hopefully he'll get beat in the primary and then that will be it.

Stilwell of Aubry Township had its bid to incorporate as a city was rejected by the JoCo Commission. Responsible commissioners voted no and idiots like John Toplikar voted for it. Why was a no vote the right thing? The area requested is too large. They needed a unanimous vote and that seems unlikely. Some have suggested that commissioners might support a smaller area closer to the size of Spring Hill. I'm not sure if the group outside the smaller area will go for it. Who gets to keep their seat in the lifeboat???? Toplikar is an idiot as I've said before. Anyone can see he took this vote because he knew it was a loser and had no chance of passing. He looks good and finds friends in the group. Again, it was a vote of NO COURAGE!