Interesting LTTEs in The Star re: Phill

[proud2BlibKansan]

Our Kansas City Star could do us, its readers, a great favor by publishing the names of the current GOP precinct committeemen and committeewomen and identify which precinct each represents and for whom each voted for to fill the Johnson County district attorney vacancy.

Don Williams

Fairway





Not since the Rev. Jim Jones and his Jonestown followers drank their poison Kool-Aid has there been a public mass suicide as large as the one committed Monday night by the Johnson County Republican committee when its members voted to install Phill Kline as district attorney.

The only thing left for my party of 42 years is the burial.

George Merrill

Overland Park





When I was in college, some other guys burned their draft cards. I didn’t think it was the right thing to do — not because it was against the law, but because the country needed to be supported during a very difficult time. There were ways to work within the system to make our voices heard, I thought.

Last month we spoke in loud and no uncertain terms when we rejected Phill Kline and his philosophy of law enforcement. Now “we” have elected Mr. Kline as the new Johnson County district attorney.

A man with no criminal trial experience is now the district attorney in my county.

Now instead of aggressively attacking crime in Johnson County, I can expect to have a district attorney who will be reviewing medical records and investigating abortion clinics.

Instead of getting a qualified public servant, I’m getting a politician whose tactics were roundly defeated last month.

Instead of service to the public, we’re getting self-service.

Where do I go to burn my Republican voter registration card?

John Mocella

Overland Park




The choice for district attorney was between an experienced career prosecutor and an ousted politician. By choosing Phill Kline, the Republican Party shows their disdain for voters and demonstrates that questionable judgment begins at the grass-roots level and works its way up in the party.

And they wonder why Democrats did so well.

I am a Republican but cannot envision voting for a Republican Johnson County candidate again.

Richard Vick

Olathe




The recent election of Phill Kline as Johnson County district attorney by Republican Party precinct members raises two questions for me.

1. Why can a Topeka resident register to vote in Johnson County using someone else’s address? This doesn’t seem right to me.

2. Wouldn’t it have been more democratic to have a special election to fill the unexpired term of Paul Morrison? In a special election, all the interested voters in Johnson County would have been given the opportunity to voice their opinion on who should be the DA.

Elaine McRobbie

Overland Park

[evlbstrd]

1. There is still hope for JoCo.

If even Repubs are pissed about it.