{"id":4640,"date":"2008-08-06T08:32:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/06\/shed-a-tear-for-phil-kline\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T08:32:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T15:52:09","slug":"shed-a-tear-for-phil-kline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4640","title":{"rendered":"Shed a Tear for Phil Kline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/kline.jpg\" title=\"kline.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/kline.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"kline.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/a>This is the kind of news that just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics\/elections\/story\/735933.html\" target=\"_blank\">warms the cockles of my heart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A political newcomer knocked Phill Kline out of the race for Johnson County district attorney Tuesday, defeating the hopes of abortion opponents who had campaigned nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>With all of the vote counted, Steve Howe, a former Johnson County prosecutor, trounced Kline with 33,260 votes to Kline\u2019s 22,188, a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent, according to final unofficial returns.<\/p>\n<p>Howe will face Democrat Rick Guinn in the Nov. 4 general election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Phil Kline is not even wanted by <em>Republicans in Johnson County<\/em>, which is pretty strong evidence that he isn&#8217;t wanted by anyone, anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, it&#8217;s not like Kline wasn&#8217;t well-supported by national anti-choicers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abortion played a key role in the race because Kline is the first prosecutor since Roe v. Wade to file criminal charges against a Planned Parenthood clinic. The case is pending.<\/p>\n<p>Independent groups from outside Kansas are thought to have spent more than $100,000 to keep Kline\u2019s candidacy alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And even with all that money, Phil Kline couldn&#8217;t even get through the <em>primary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think this is the last we hear of Kline, but it probably isn&#8217;t. Doubtless he&#8217;s already working on a strategy to become city attorney for Olathe, or perhaps an assistant D.A. in Kansas City, Kansas. It&#8217;s part of his long, slow, interminable slide into obscurity. But at least he&#8217;s sliding in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of news that just warms the cockles of my heart: A political newcomer knocked Phill Kline out of the race for Johnson County district attorney Tuesday, defeating the hopes of abortion opponents who had campaigned nationwide. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}