Yesterday Gov. Sebelius announced she was appointing Neil B. Foth to be the new District Judge of the 10th Judicial District, which is Johnson County, as a replacement for Judge John Anderson III, who is retiring.
One news source announced the Governor appoints another political ally to bench, with comments that Foth and Democrat Lt. Gov. [...]
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Dr. Janis McMillen was first appointed to the 10th Judicial District Nominating Committee on March 25, 2004, by former Johnson County Commissioner Dolores Furtado. Commissioner Ed Eilert reappointed her on February 28, 2008. Why was the original crony appointment of Dr. McMillan by Dr. Furtado never questioned by the press?
Thursday’s Kansas Register announced Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ appointment of Katherine Taylor DeBruce, a Democrat from Mission Hills, to the Supreme Court Nominating Commission.
Did the $13,000 contributed to Gov. Sebelius by Katherine DeBruce, her husband Paul DeBruce, and his DeBruce Grain company, have any influence on Sebelius’s appointment to the Supreme Court Nominating Commission? [...]
Today, Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed one of her political contributors to be a new Johnson County District judge. Sebelius appointed David Wesley Hauber, a Democrat from Shawnee to be the replacement for Judge Janice D. Russell, who retired. Hauber was picked by Sebelius from a list of three Democrats nominated by the [...]
Tonight there will be a debate in Kansas City at the Zenith Boosters Club: “Judges: Appoint or elect.” The issue of electing judges or appointing judges is a topic in both Kansas and Missouri this year. In Kansas some judges are elected (like in Sedgwick County), while others are appointed (like [...]
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Johnson County Kansas voters will decide in a November ballot whether their district court judges will be elected, or whether the judges in the 10th Judicial District will continue to be appointed.
While the public debates how district court judges will be put in office, the current 10th Judicial District Judicial Nominating Commission is [...]
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius withdraws her appointment of John Carmichael to the Kansas Human Rights Commission. The Journal of the Kansas Senate for May 1 shows this message from Gov. Sebelius to the Kansas Senate:
A recent five-part series by the Topeka Capital-Journal identified several serious problems in the effectiveness of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. This was a welcome series about the problems with this Board, but the series failed to ask about the political money and allegiance of the Board members that contributed nearly $25,000 [...]
The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission failed to take action against a PAC Carmichael was involved with that failed to report its political mailings in Nov 2006. See the rest of this entry …
