KS Meadowlark: 2002 cycle: Tricks by ProKanDo PAC via Kansans for Democratic Leadership PAC

With Sebelius considered "safe" in 2002, the Kansas Democrats diverted considerable money to elect Democrat Chris Biggs over Republican Phill Kline. The Kansas Press reported polls showing Phill Kline was to win in 2002 by a comfortable margin, but never studied why his win was by a razor thin margin.

The AP tried to smear Kline on Nov, 10, 2002 after his narrow win, but the Kansas press NEVER studied what happened to Klines's lead in the polls that predicted a 7%-point lead by Kline:

The final media poll, published by the Lawrence Journal-World, had Kline ahead of Biggs, 44 percent to 37 percent. But the survey of 625 likely voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points, also showed 19 percent of the respondents undecided.

So why was this race so close? There was a lot of secret money spent in this race that was not known until months later, and which the Kansas Press in some parts of the state has never reported:

One Democrat, Chris Gallaway, was the treasurer for all these groups and likely orchestrated this money flow:

Kansas Democratic Party
Democratic Tallgrass Committee
Democratic Legislative Victory Fund 1
Democratic Legislative Victory Fund 2
Democratic Legislative Victory Fund
Kansans for Democratic Leadership

Sebelius wrote this letter of recommendation for Gallaway. Gallaway "graduated" to the contact person for the Young Democrats of America 527.

Only the Lawrence Journal-World asked about Gallaway's unpaid parking tickets in Topeka: “Gallaway came under scrutiny in 2002 when it became public that he had not paid more than $18,000 in parking tickets to the city of Topeka during his time with the state party. He also was sued six times between 1998 and 2001 for writing bad checks and failing to pay his credit card bill.”

Gallaway has gone on to become the head of the Young Democrats of America and apparently is architecting “tricks” now at the national level. An official of a Democratic organization in another state contacted the Kansas Meadowlark over a year ago and asked:

“…I came across the information about Kansans for Democratic Leadership and ProKanDo. I was wondering if there is any other information that is not reported on the website . I am especially interested in anything about Chris Gallaway, the treasurer of KDL who I believe is also involved in a money-laundering scheme in his current role as president of the Young Democrats of America.”

How big was the ProKanDo PAC in the 2002 elections? The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission published their list of the top 10 PACs in 2002. ProKanDO was #1:

Pro Kan Do (Pro-Choice Women's Health Care Services)	$271,400.00
Kansas Contractors Association PAC	$116,289.53
Kansas Realtors PAC	$94,400.00
Kansas National Education Association PAC	$71,725.00
Restore America PAC, Inc (Non-Federal)	$70,838.40
Kansas Optometric PAC	$57,450.00
Kansas Bankers Association PAC	$56,875.00
Kansas Dental PAC	$44,850.00
Kansas Medical Society PAC	$40,750.00
Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce PAC	$40,600.00
Kansas Health Care Association PAC	$39,410.00
Kansas Trial Lawyers Consumer/Civil Justice PAC	$36,750.00
Kansas Society of CPA's PAC	$35,150.00
Kansas Farm Bureau Vote FBF Fund	$31,950.00
Kansas State UAW PAC	$31,250.00
Sprint State PAC	$31,050.00
Kansas Insurance Agents PAC	$29,951.29
Kansas Chiropractic Association PAC	$29,550.00
Kansas Automobile Dealers Election Action Committee	$29,450.00
Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association of Kansas	$26,700.00

This article describes Tiller's and ProKanDo's actions as Tiller attempted to "buy" the 2002 race for Kansas Attorney General. Some additional political money details of Tiller's spending in 2002 are shown in the diagram above, and in this PDF file, which has been ignored by many in the Kansas Press.

The Kansas press has noted a single $153,000 transaction by this KDL PAC, but has missed the larger scope of the $264,000 received from Tiller by this Kansans for Democratic Leadership in 2002:

Kansans for Democratic Leadership formed on 10/14/2002
$40,000 from Tiller's ProKanDo PAC on 10/21/2002
$6,000 from George Tiller on 10/23/2002
$55,000 from ProKanDo on 10/28/2002
$10,000 from ProKanDo on 10/30/2002
$153,000 from ProKanDo on 11/4/2002
$1496.13 to Democratic Tallgrass Committee on 11/19/2002
Kansans for Democratic Leadership files termination report 1/10/2003

Also in 2002, the "Democratic Legislative Victory Fund - 2nd" Committee received $5000 from "Kansans for Democratic Leadership" (the name for the 3rd District Committee) on 10/30/2002. A few days later (11/2/2002) exactly $5000 was sent to Emily's List in Washington, DC.

Tiller's Women's Health Care Services gave $15,000 to KDP on 3/19/2002.

ProKanDo gave $5000 to KDP on 8/1/2002.

Emily's List gave $10,000 to KDP on 10/14/2002.

The Democratic Tallgrass Committee, and the Democratic Legislative Victory Funds 1 and are the "links" to Tiller's political money shenanigans from 2002 to similar ones in 2004 and 2006: After laundering a lot of political money in 2002, the Kansans for Democratic Leadership PAC gave $10,000 to two of the Congressional District Democratic Legislative Victory Committees, and then folded by giving its final $1496 to the Democratic Tallgrass Committee

The Lawrence-Journal World did break this story on July 31, 2003 describing the $153,000, but didn't describe that amount was only about half the money Tiller spent in 2002. Newspapers like the Kansas City Star and the Topeka Capital Journal continue to ignore this story. And this all occurred at a time that Kansas received an "F" in campaign finance disclosure. Even USA Today mentioned this story more than most Kansas newspapers.

So while the $300,000 of political money in 2002 was a big story, the bigger, and shameful story is a biased press that refuses to print easily verifiable facts, and opine about the need for better political money reporting.

But what about Dr. Tiller's political support for Kathleen Sebelius? See this page about Tiller's Governor.

If Dr. George Tiller and the Kansas Democratic Party are so proud of abortion money in Kansas politics, why do they go to so much effort to hide what they're doing, year, after year, after year?

Contributions to PACs and political parties are not listed online prior to 2006, but may be found by ordering and reviewing the reports filed with the Kansas Secretary of State. I have documentation for every number in the diagram shown above.

Tiller's Contributions to Kansas Political Candidates
Reported Online by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission
2001 and 2002

Date	Contributor	Dollars	Recipient	Contest	District
9/10/2001	TILLER, JEANNE (Tiller's wife)	2000	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Gov
7/5/2002	TILLER, GEORGE R MD	250	STOCKWELL, BILL	House	91
7/31/2002	PRO KAN DO - PRO-CHOICE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZAT	2000	ADKINS, DAVID	AttorneyGeneral
8/1/2002	PRO KAN DO PAC	500	FULTON, GEORGE	House	96
8/16/2002	PRO KAN DO PAC	250	FULTON, GEORGE	House	96
8/26/2002	PRO KAN DO	250	THOMPSON, WOODY	House	87
8/26/2002	PRO KAN DO - PRO-CHOICE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZAT	1000	BIGGS, CHRIS	AttorneyGeneral
8/26/2002	PRO KAN DO PAC	250	JENNEY, CHARLES	House	99
8/26/2002	PRO KAN DO PAC	400	STOCKWELL, BILL	House	91
8/26/2002	WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE SERVICES, INC	250	DILLMORE, NILE	House	92
8/28/2002	PRO KAN DO - PRO-CHOICE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZAT	1000	GARNER, JIM	Insurance
10/17/2002	WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE SERVICES, INC	1000	GARNER, JIM	Insurance
11/2/2002	PRO KAN DO - PRO-CHOICE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZAT	1000	BIGGS, CHRIS	AttorneyGeneral
11/5/2002	PRO KAN DO PAC	250	KIRK, NANCY	House	56
11/6/2002	PRO KAN DO - PRO-CHOICE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZAT	250	HALEY, DAVID	SecretaryOfState
12/17/2002	TILLER, GEORGE	500	WILSON, R J	House	3

Date	Contributor	Dollars	Recipient	Contest	District
11/7/1993	TILLER, GEORGE	250	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
11/30/1993	WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE SERVICES INC	200	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
11/1/1994	TILLER GEORGE	500	THOMPSON, SALLY	Treasurer
9/1/1995	TILLER, GEORGE	1000	WALKER, DOUG	Senate	12
10/2/1995	TILLER, GEORGE	100	STOVALL, CARLA	AttorneyGeneral
11/11/1995	TILLER, GEORGE	100	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
11/11/1995	TILLER, GEORGE	100	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
11/24/1995	TILLER, GEORGE	200	SALISBURY, ALICIA LAING	Senate	20
11/30/1995	TILLER, GEORGE	250	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
11/1/1996	TILLER, GEORGE MD	1000	WALKER, DOUG	Senate	12
11/2/1996	TILLER, GEORGE	100	MCINTYRE, JANICE	Senate	10
11/7/1996	TILLER, GEORGE	200	DIERKS, DIANA	Senate	35
11/8/1996	TILLER, GEORGE R	400	TANNAHILL, ARTHUR	Senate	26
11/24/1996	TILLER, GEORGE	400	MCINTYRE, JANICE	Senate	10
11/25/1996	TILLER, GEORGE (REFUNDED 200 ON 10-14-96)	500	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
5/1/1997	TILLER, GEORGE	500	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Insurance
11/14/1997	TILLER GEORGE R	1000	STEINEGER, CHRIS	Senate	6
9/10/1998	TILLER, GEORGE	200	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Insurance
12/14/1998	TILLER, JEANNE	250	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Insurance
6/23/1999	TILLER GEORGE R (CLINIC)	1000	STEINEGER, CHRIS	Senate	6
11/10/1999	TILLER GEORGE R	1000	JOHNSTON, DOUGLAS	Senate	25
12/6/1999	TILLER GEORGE R	100	PETTY, MARGE	Senate	18
6/19/2000	TILLER, GEORGE	500	KUETHER, ANN	House	55
8/31/2000	TILLER GEORGE R	1000	JOHNSTON, DOUGLAS	Senate	25
8/31/2000	WOMENS HEALTH CARE SERVICES	1000	JOHNSTON, DOUGLAS	Senate	25
9/7/2000	WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE	500	STOCKWELL, BILL	House	91
9/25/2000	TILLER, GEORGE	2000	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Gov
9/25/2000	TILLER, GEORGE MD	2000	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Gov
9/25/2000	WOMENS HEALTH CARE SERVICES	2000	SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN	Gov
9/27/2000	TILLER, GEORGE	500	WELSHIMER, GWEN	House	88
10/12/2000	TILLER, GEORGE	500	STOCKWELL, BILL	House	91
10/25/2000	TILLER, GEORGE	200	FLAHARTY, GERALDINE	House	98
11/6/2000	TILLER GEORGE	1000	STEINEGER, CHRIS	Senate	6

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
TILLER, GEORGE DR WICHITA,KS 67218	SELF/PHYSICIAN	11/5/2002	$5,000	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE DR WICHITA,KS 67218	SELF/PHYSICIAN	8/24/2001	$500	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67206	PHYSICIAN - FAMILY PRACTICE	7/1/2002	$750	Nolla, Carlos J
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67206	SELF/PHYSICIAN - FAMILY PRACTICE	7/1/2002	$750	Nolla, Carlos J
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67206	SELF/PHYSICIAN - FAMILY PRACTICE	6/18/2002	$250	Nolla, Carlos J
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67206		7/25/2002	($250)	Nolla, Carlos J
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67206		7/25/2002	($250)	Nolla, Carlos J
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67206		8/29/2002	($1,000)	Nolla, Carlos J

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67206	PHYSICIAN	10/31/1996	$4,300	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67208	MEDICAL DOCTOR	6/14/1996	$1,000	Henderson, Cheryl Brown
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67230	WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE SERVICES	3/9/1994	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67218	PHYSICIAN	1/19/1996	$1,000	Thompson, Sally
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67218	M D	11/14/1994	$500	Hancock, Judy
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67218	DOCTOR	7/19/1996	$500	Docking, Jill
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67220	PHYSICIAN	10/18/1996	$400	Thompson, Sally
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67218	PHYSICIAN	10/17/1996	$300	Frieden, John
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67218	DOCTOR	1/11/1993	$250	Kansas Republican State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE ANDOVER,KS 67002		9/26/1996	($4,795)	Specter, Arlen
TILLER, GEORGE DR WICHITA,KS 67218		3/4/1996	$20,000	Democratic National Committee
TILLER, GEORGE DR WICHITA,KS 67218		3/4/1996	$5,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67218	DOCTOR	6/10/1996	$1,000	Hancock, Judy
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67230	DOCTOR	6/30/1995	$1,000	Clinton, Bill
TILLER, GEORGE R DR WICHITA,KS 67218		8/22/1996	($500)	Docking, Jill
TILLER, GEORGE R MD WICHITA,KS 67230	PHYSICIAN	4/26/1993	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, GEORGE R MD WICHITA,KS 67218	PHYSICIAN	7/12/1994	$200	Hancock, Judy
TILLER, GEORGE R MD WICHITA,KS 67218	PHYSICIAN	7/12/1994	$200	Hancock, Judy
TILLER, JEANNE WICHITA,KS 67206	HOUSEWIFE	8/22/1996	$1,000	Thompson, Sally

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67230	PHYSICIAN	4/9/1991	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, GEORGE WICHITA,KS 67218	PHYSICIAN	4/3/1990	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, GEORGE B DR WICHITA,KS 67230	PHYSICIAN	10/25/1991	$1,000	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE DR WICHITA,KS 67230	PHYSICIAN	5/11/1992	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67230	PHYSICIAN	8/11/1992	$5,000	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE R WICHITA,KS 67230	PHYSICIAN	3/8/1989	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, GEORGE R DR WICHITA,KS 67218	PHYSICIAN	8/6/1990	$5,000	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, GEORGE R D WICHITA,KS 67218	DOCTOR OF MEDICINE	9/26/1989	$1,000	Kansas Democratic State Cmte
TILLER, JEANNE WICHITA,KS 67230	HOMEMAKER	5/11/1992	$1,000	Glickman, Daniel Robert
TILLER, JEANNE WICHITA,KS 67230		8/15/1991	$200	Republicans for Choice
TILLER, JEANNE WICHITA,KS 67230		10/25/1991	$200	Republicans for Choice
TILLER, JEANNE E WICHITA,KS 67230		8/11/1992	$5,000	Kansas Democratic State Cmte