Phill Kline loses DA race
From the Newton Kansan : Topeka — Phill Kline gained national attention and the loyalty of many abortion foes by investigating clinics, but his reputation will cost him his job as the district attorney in Kansas’ most populous county. Kline lost the Republican primary Tuesday in Johnson County to Steve Howe, a former assistant district attorney. Howe won 60 percent of the vote and will face Democrat Rick Guinn, another former assistant DA who now is working in the attorney general’s office. Howe’s main pitch to voters was that the district attorney’s office needs a professional prosecutor, not a politician — a less-than-subtle reference to Kline’s reputation as a passionate anti-abortion Republican. “I think that truly has hit home to the people of Johnson County,” Howe said of his message. “I think that the thing people were troubled with was: Were decisions being made because of special interests or were decisions made based on the law and the evidence?” From the Lawrence Journal Wor...