Follow the Money

 

“The truth of the law is defined solely by those who have the power to define it.”—Phill Kline, Johnson County D.A.

 

Currently in Kansas, those who have the power to define the truth of the law have chosen to practice selective law enforcement, wielding their power to protect the abortion industry and punishing anyone who tries to enforce criminal prohibitions against abortionists rather than working to enforce all laws, not just the ones they favor.

 

This misuse of power reveals a problem in Kansas that runs deeper than the abortion issue.  The rule of law has been usurped in order to insure that large amounts of money continue to flow from the lucrative abortion industry into a political machine that in turn gives the abortion industry immunity from the law. 

 

There is a lot of money at stake.  George Tiller contributes hundreds of thousands of dollars through his ProKanDo PAC and other fund raising organizations.  Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million in taxpayer funding every year and funnels large amounts of money into Kansas to elect pro-abortion candidates.  Once elected, these officials and their appointees have made sure the abortion industry in Kansas can operate freely, no questions asked, in spite of clear indications that the law has been broken repeatedly. 

 

This financing system is very complicated and intricate.  Often, the money moves through several organizations before it gets to the actual candidate that it benefits.  It is difficult to link the original donors to the candidates because of this. 

 

More information and multiple links are included below that will help concerned citizens to Follow the Money.  At the very least, it should raise serious questions about the integrity of the justice system, law enforcement and government in Kansas.

 

 

Tiller’s Political Influence webpage:  http://www.dr-tiller.com/influence.htm

 

 

 Sebelius

12/19/2004  Flashback:  Sebelius, as Kansas Legislator, Blocked New Laws to Protect Unborn Babies

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/12-19a.htm

·        Cites Wichita Eagle article (full text) from 10/28/1989, “Killing fetus not crime, court rules,” when Sebelius as legislator blocked actions to protect unborn children

·        Cites Kansas City Archdiocesan publication (full text), The Leaven, 3/27/1992, when the late Catholic Archbishop Strecker was quite critical of Sebelius:  “Rep. Kathleen Sebelius of Topeka led the death-march of the unborn to the abortion clinics in the House of Representatives.  … How could we Kansans have elected such 'negative to life' persons to such responsible positions in our state government?"

 

3/3/2005  Governor Sebelius for using medical records  to get BTK murderer but not for using medical records to expose criminals that abuse children?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2005/03-03.htm

Sebelius for the hard work of the KBI, but cuts their budget?

 

9/18/2005  Sebelius’ Agenda:  Maintain Kansas as Abortion Capital of Nation/World?

http://web.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=146

 

6/18/2006  One victim or two? Most people say two, but Sebelius says one?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/06-18/index.htm

 

9/14/2006  Kansas Catholic Archbishop Challenges Governor Sebelius to Join the “Culture of Life”

 

1/14/2007  $200,000 from Democratic Governors' Association Spread Throughout Kansas in 2006 via Kathleen Sebelius' Bluestem Fund PAC

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/01-14/index.htm

 

4/7/2007  Governor Sebelius appoints one of George Tiller's Attorneys, Dan Monnat,

to Kansas Sentencing Commission. Why?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/04-07.htm

 

2/29/2008  Gov. Sebelius appoints HUGE Democratic Donor, John Carmichael,  to Chair Kansas Human Rights Commission.  Is Carmichael exempt from Kansas Ethics Laws?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/02-29/index.htm

[NOTE:  This is the SAME guy involved in Wichita Voters for Truth PAC.  See Ethics, 12/10/2007]

 

3/30/2008  Members of Kansas Board of Healing Arts Gave Nearly $25,000 to Gov. Sebelius' Campaigns

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/03-30.htm

 

4/22/2008  Dr. Tiller declares infants born alive as “just sloppy medicine” yet Gov. Sebelius vetoes late term abortion restrictions in Kansas?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/04-22.htm

Gives links to ProKanDo fundraising letter on behalf of Sebelius in 2002 signed by Tiller. But, this was a “bait and switch”. The money was used against Kline instead of for Sebelius.

 

 

Morrison

9/8/2007  Paul Morrison's Political Lifesaving Cure:  $284,000 in supportive political mailings and phone calls  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/09-08/index.htm

 

 

ProKanDo

2/25/2005  Tiller and his ProKanDo PAC Used Health Records from Clinic for Fundraising

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2005/02-25.htm

 

10/20/2005.  Top 20 Kansas PACs Based on $ in 2004  [ProKanDo was #4]

http://web.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=264   [temporarily offline]

 

3/22/2007  Were ProKanDo's award winning political phone calls, "In the Dog House," paid for by a PAC or a Nonprofit?  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/03-22/index.htm

 

8/20/2007  How the names of political contributors of over $52,000 were hidden on the ProKanDo PAC Reports  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20d.htm

 

8/20/2007  Strange political money transfers between ProKanDo PAC and Young Democrats of America 527  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20c.htm

 

8/20/2007  The ProKanDo PAC raised and spent more political money than any other Kansas PAC,

but wasn't listed in the top 20 PACs in Kansas in 2006?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20a.htm

 

8/24/2007  How can the Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection "non-profit" legally give $34,000 to the ProKanDo PAC?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20b.htm

 

3/16/2008 Political Money Rankings of 228 Kansas PACs from 2005-2006 Cycle [ProKanDo PAC is #5]

 http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/03-16/index.htm

 

 

 

 

 

ProKanDo 2002

The 2002 AG race.  The sneaky money transfers in the 2002 race not reported by much of KS press.

http://www.dr-tiller.com/backdoorcash.htm . 
Also see:  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/10-03/2002.htm

 

 

ProKanDo and the Kansas Senate

8/11/2004  Who's behind the mysterious Kansans for a Moderate Government PAC? 

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/08-11.htm

Dr. Tiller’s ProKanDo PAC used Kansans for a Moderate Government PAC to elect pro-abort State Senators and knock out pro-life candidates.   See 10/30/2004.

 

10/30/2004  Dr. Tiller hijacks education issue:  Channels secret money to influence Kansas Senate Races in 2004  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/10-30.htm

See 8/11/2004.  ProKanDo funded the Kansans for a Moderate Government PAC.  At least one ProKanDo fundraiser earlier in 2004 said they were raising money “to help elect new pro-choice candidates to the Kansas State Senate.”

 

10/30/2004  Dr. Tiller hijacks education issue:  Channels secret money to influence Kansas Senate Races in 2004  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/10-30.htm

See 8/11/2004.  ProKanDo funded the Kansans for a Moderate Government PAC.  At least one ProKanDo fundraiser earlier in 2004 said they were raising money “to help elect new pro-choice candidates to the Kansas State Senate.”

 

11/27/2004  Connections between mysterious "SDC PAC," founder of the Oz Museum in Wamego, and Dr. Tiller in Wichita?  kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/11-27b.htm

An example of an LGBT activist helping Tiller’s attempt to knock out pro-life State Senate candidate.  There are several LGBT connections to ProKanDo in Wichita.

 

10/30/2004  Dr. Tiller hijacks education issue:  Channels secret money to influence Kansas Senate Races in 2004  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/10-30.htm

See 8/11/2004.  ProKanDo funded the Kansans for a Moderate Government PAC.  At least one ProKanDo fundraiser earlier in 2004 said they were raising money “to help elect new pro-choice candidates to the Kansas State Senate.”

 

 

Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission

11/16/2004  General Counsel  for KS Governmental Ethics Commission Contributes to Controversial PAC

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/11-16.htm

The Kansas Govenmental Ethics Commission has done little scrutiny of ProKanDo, including a missing $10,000 contribution.  While not illegal, the Ethics Commission’s general counsel was a ProKanDo contributor. 

 

3/10/2005  Kansas Governmental Ethics Office Goes Easy on Violations by Tiller's PACs?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2005/03-10.htm

 

4/27/2006  Conflicts of Interest by Members of Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/04-27.htm

 

4/29/2006  Did Ethics Commissioner Tim Emert Solicit Funds for the  KTRM PAC  A Month After Joining the Ethics Commission In Violation of State Law?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/04-29/index.htm

 

5/11/2006  Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission Favors Nominee by KS Senate President over Nominee by KS Speaker of the House? 

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/05-11.htm

 

8/20/2007  How the names of political contributors of over $52,000 were hidden on the ProKanDo PAC Reports  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20d.htm

 

8/20/2007  Strange political money transfers between ProKanDo PAC and Young Democrats of America 527  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20c.htm

 

8/20/2007  The ProKanDo PAC raised and spent more political money than any other Kansas PAC,

but wasn't listed in the top 20 PACs in Kansas in 2006?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20a.htm

 

12/10/2007  "Wichita Voters for Truth" Political Action Committee Ignores Reporting Requirements.  Can any Kansas PAC now use this reporting scam?
http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/12-10/index.htm
All of these contributors had ties to Tiller, Sedgwick County Democratic Party, and ProKanDo and the money was spent to support a pro-abort state rep.

 

2/3/2007  Enigma:  Speaker of the House's Appointment to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission Blocked for Years   http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/02-03/index.htm

 

3/16/2008 Political Money Rankings of 228 Kansas PACs from 2005-2006 Cycle [ProKanDo PAC is #5]

 http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/03-16/index.htm
This is a report the Ethics Commission refused to create.

 

 

Kansas Supreme Court and District Courts

11/1/2003  Judge rules in Sebelius' favor  but doesn't disclose his wife's contributions to Sebelius?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2003/11-01.htm

Sebelius later appointed Judge Rosen to the Kansas Supreme Court

 

1/4/2005  Did $750 to Sebelius help get Six the Seventh?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2005/01-04.htm

After the Morrison scandal, Sebelius appointed Judge Six to be Kansas Attorney General.

 

3/25/2005  Does Kansas Supreme Court Reflect Kansas Political Values?  4 Democrats Vs 3 Republicans

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2005/03-25.htm

 

7/22/2005  Sebelius continues packing Kansas Supreme Court with Democrats:  5 Democrats Vs. 2 Republicans when Kansas has only 27% Democrats!

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2005/07-22.htm

 

7/3/2006  Sebelius appoints wife of "dean of Ellis County Democratic politics" to Supreme Court Nominating Commission.   Is Sebelius Concerned about Qualified Justices on the Kansas Supreme Court?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/07-03/index.htm

 

7/3/2006  Political Profile of Members of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission:  6 Democrats, 2 Republicans, 1 Republican for Moore

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/07-03b.htm

 

8/5/2006  Sebelius appoints former PAC Chair of “Republicans for Sebelius” to District Judge

 

8/13/2006  Sebelius Replaces Appointee to Supreme Court Nominating Commission After 42 Days

 

4/4/2007  Reno County Republicans miffed by Governor Sebelius' Appointment of Magistrate Judge. 

Kansas Judicial Nominating Process Flawed by Huge Political Money?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/04-04/index.htm

 

8/7/2007  Governor Sebelius Rewards $13,700 Democratic Donor with Johnson County District Judgeship

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-07.htm

 

12/4/2007  Why all the secrecy in the Kansas Supreme Court?  Will Phill Kline survive a legal/political battle with the Supreme Court in a secret case?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/12-04/index.htm

 

12/4/2007  Why did a Kansas Supreme Court Justice Change Political Parties?

Will Justice Luckert's husband's political contributions ever cause a conflict of interest for her?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/12-04a.htm

 

12/11/2007  AG Morrison wants independent investigation by the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys of professional misconduct allegations against him.  But near majority on this Board are contributors to either Morrison or Sebelius!

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/12-11.htm

 

12/16/2007  Updated Political Profile of Members of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating  Commission: Still 6 Democrats, 2 Republicans, 1 Republican for Moore

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/12-16.htm

 

 

Kansas State Board of Healing Arts

8/21/2005  Embarrassing Sebelius Appointment? 

http://web.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=36   [See end note since this is temporarily offline]

Sebelius appointed pro-abort Dr. Ellis to Kansas Board when Ellis had lost his medical license in Missouri.

 

3/30/2007  Members of Kansas Board of Healing Arts Gave Nearly $25,000 to Gov. Sebelius' Campaigns

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/03-30.htm

 

 

Kansas Non-Profits Involved in Kansas Elections

10/18/2006  Who's behind the "Progress Kansas" Receiving $25,000 from Liberal Missouri Group?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/10-18/index.htm

 

10/23/2006  Is Dr. Tiller's ProKanDo PAC Behind Hit Piece by "Kansans for Consumer Privacy"?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/10-23/index.htm

 

10/29/2006  Snoop Dog II:  Law Abiding Citizens Have No Right to Know Who is "Educating" Them?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/10-29/index.htm

 

10/29/2006  The Snoop Dog Page.  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/SnoopDogs/index.htm

 

11/3/2006  "Progress Kansas" a PAC-in-a-Box in Olathe?  A Mysterious "Non-Profit" Postal Box Sending Hit Pieces Against Certain State Rep Candidates.

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/KansasProgress/index.htm

 

3/22/2007  Were ProKanDo's award winning political phone calls, "In the Dog House," paid for by a PAC or a Nonprofit?  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/03-22/index.htm

 

7/22/2007  Case Study of State Rep Gene Rardin's Election:  The Kansas Democratic Party's Method of Buying a State Representative Via Their Kansas Coordinated Campaign 

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/07-22/index.htm

 

8/24/2007  How can the Kansans for Consumer Privacy Protection "non-profit" legally give $34,000 to the ProKanDo PAC?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/08-20b.htm

 

11/16/2007  Integrity of Kansas Elections Less Important to IRS than "Privacy Rights" of Groups Abusing Non-Profit Laws  http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/11-16.htm

 

 

Dr. George Tiller

2006-2007, The Shame of Kansas, O’Reilly’s reports

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/ShameOfKansas/index.htm

 

4/7/2007  Governor Sebelius appoints one of George Tiller's Attorneys, Dan Monnat,

to Kansas Sentencing Commission. Why?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/04-07.htm

 

4/22/2008  Dr. Tiller declares infants born alive as “just sloppy medicine” yet Gov. Sebelius vetoes late term abortion restrictions in Kansas?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2008/04-22.htm

Gives links to ProKanDo fundraising letter on behalf of Sebelius in 2002 signed by Tiller. But, this was a “bait and switch”. The money was used against Kline instead of for Sebelius.

 

 

Kansas Media Bias

10/7/2004  Hypocrisy by the Topeka Capital Journal in Reporting Campaign/PAC Contributions

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2004/10-07.htm

The Topeka Capital Journal refused to print anything about the nearly $300,000 used to try to defeat Phill Kline in 2002.

 

2/22/2006  Kansas City Star hides Kline's announcement of support by 89 sheriffs since it was a political story,  but serves as cheerleader for Democratic candidate, Paul Morrison?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/02-22.htm

 

10/6/2006  Kline faults Kansas City Star for erroneous Sunday editorial

 

11/5/2006  Junction City Daily Union Publisher Contributes to Democratic Party and Candidates,

But Fails to Mention that in Paper's Political Endorsements?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/11-05.htm

 

12/18/2006  The Left-Leaning and Unprofessional Kansas Press Maligns and Impugns Phill Kline

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2006/12-18.htm

 

 

4/16/2007  Does the "L" in KC Star's Editorial Board Member Yael Abouhalkah's name mean he's a liar?

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/04-16.htm

 

5/2/2007  KMBZ's Bill Grady invents ethics case against JoCo D.A. Kline:  Grady "had no interest in the facts or the truth."

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/05-02.htm

 

5/30/2007  Kansas City Star's Editorial Board Blinded by Their Political Agenda

http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/05-30.htm

 

 

 

Kansas Meadowlark at Salina Journal

[Temporarily offline]

 

http://web.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=36

Embarrassing Sebelius Appointment?
August 21st, 2005
by KSMeadowlark

Fox 4 Kansas City broke this story during their 9 PM news Friday night but for some reason never put a link to it on their web site. Today’s (8/21/2005) Kansas City Star gives these details:

Doctor’s troubles create concern
By ALAN BAVLEY
The Kansas City Star

Howard Ellis no longer can practice medicine in Missouri. But that might not stop him from judging the medical practices of doctors in Kansas.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius last month named the Leawood physician and entrepreneur to the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, where he will sit in judgment of doctors accused of malpractice or improper conduct. Ellis served three terms previously on the board.

The announcement of Ellis’ appointment came just two months after he voluntarily retired his medical license in Missouri rather than face a disciplinary hearing on multiple charges of professional misbehavior.

His license issues in Missouri came as a surprise to Sebelius’ office, which is looking into Ellis’ record.
. . .

Why might Sebelius nominate Ellis to the Board of Healing Arts?

While Ellis was a Republican and contributed to Republican candidates in the 1990s he switched parties in 2004, and is now a Democrat.

Ellis was a good contributor to Sebelius’ campaign in 2002, having given her $4000 according to the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission’s web site:
05-15-2003 ELLIS, HOWARD 1000.00 SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN
07-09-2002 ELLIS, HOWARD 2000.00 SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN
09-13-2002 ELLIS, HOWARD 1000.00 SEBELIUS, KATHLEEN

Recently the Lawrence Journal-World commented how names of Sebelius’ appointees can often be found on her donor rolls, and this was true in this case, too.

In 2000 as a “Republican” Ellis signed an August 4, 2000 political mailing from the “Republicans for Dennis Moore”. Do “true” Republicans join “Republicans for Democratic Candidate” groups? Or, are these supporters really RINOs (Republicans In Name Only)?

Open Secrets reports a $1000 contribution by Howard Ellis to Dennis Moore in March 2002. Apparently “Republican” Ellis wasn’t even willing to wait for the Republican primary in 2002 and support the moderate Republican, Adam Taff.

With such a good Democratic Party track record, why would Sebelius be interested in Howard Ellis, who is trained in obstetrics/gynecology, for the Board of Healing Arts? The answer might be fairly simple: Isn’t Sebelius interested in keeping one of the biggest Kansas Democratic Party donors happy?

AFAIK the Kansas Press has never reported a $100,000 contribution made on Aug 15, 2002 to the Democratic Governors’ Association’s 527 Committee by Dr. George Tiller’s Women’s Heath Care Services clinic in Wichita. Is it possible that this money directly or indirectly benefited Kansas Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Kathleen Sebelius? Tiller had supported Sebelius in previous elections, but no known money was ever found for Tiller’s support for Sebelius as Kansas Governor in 2002.

Remember, at this same time in 2002, the Kansas Democratic Party was involved in a complicated money “laundering” scheme to obfuscate another $210,000 from Tiller to prevent Phill Kline from becoming Attorney General. Tiller only spent nearly $300,000 in the Attorney General’s race in 2002, which was more than Chris Biggs, who was the Democratic Party candidate. The Lawrence Journal-World reported about a single $153,000 transaction by Tiller. A web page explains details of these complicated money transfers by Kansas Democrats in 2002.

Sebelius has been trying to “protect” Tiller since the late 1980s when she was a Kansas legislator. An Oct 28, 1989 Wichita Eagle article announced a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that an unborn child has no legal status in Kansas:

The state’s highest court made the ruling in the appeal of Willard Green, a Wichita man convicted last year of two counts of first-degree murder in the death of Zeola Wilson and her 8-month-old fetus. The court reversed the conviction in the case of the fetus but upheld the conviction for the mother.

In its unanimous ruling, the court repeatedly said that killing a fetus was not considered a crime by the Legislature, but that making it a crime could fall within the lawmakers’ power.

As a legislator Sebelius made sure no new laws would protect unborn children in Kansas, as described in that Eagle article. Pregnant mothers in Kansas should be concerned by Sebelius’ lack of concern for their welfare, when they are attacked. (And a Kansan was responsible for the horrific attack of a Missouri woman when her 8-month-old unborn child was stolen last year.)

The late Archbishop Ignatius Strecker of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas wrote the following in The Leaven, March 27, 1992:

“Rep. Kathleen Sebelius of Topeka led the death-march of the unborn to the abortion clinics in the House of Representatives. She was attempting to make the ‘death-marches’ to the abortion clinics as legal as the death-marches to the gas chambers of the World War II Holocaust.”
…
“What assurance have we, their electors, that these same persons will not use this same legislative forum to vote away other human, social and legal rights that are a part of our ‘inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’. How soon will these legislators vote a mandatory death sentence for the sick, the aging, the poor in society? How could we Kansans have elected such ‘negative to life’ persons to such responsible positions in our state government?”

There is simply something wrong when the day before a baby is born it can be aborted in Wichita as a “choice.”

Is Sebelius still trying to “protect” long-time Democratic Party contributor, Dr. George Tiller, by this questionable nomination to the Board of Healing Arts?

http://web.saljournal.com/blogs/?p=146

Sebelius’ Agenda: Maintain Kansas as Abortion Capital of Nation/World?
September 18th, 2005
by KSMeadowlark

An article in today’s Salina Journal (p. A8) discussed “Who will be in race for governor in 2006?” A separate article in the Journal (on the same page) today talked about Sebelius being featured on the EMILY’s List (“Early Money Is Like Yeast”) PAC site. (You may be able to view this same article online here). The article suggested checking out EMILY’s List of candidates, including Sebelius.

This article about EMILY’s List, a national pro-abortion group of perhaps 100,000 members, shows they are supporting Sebelius. But the newspaper story doesn’t mention the words “Paid for by Kathleen Sebelius Committee, Jim DeCoursey, Treasurer” on EMILY’s candidate page. Sebelius is spending her own campaign money to get political contributions from the 100,000 or so on EMILY’s list.

An E-mail circulated in Kansas this last week discussed an EMILY’s List E-mail in which Sebelius was also soliciting campaign contributions:

Mainstream moderate Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is one of the few Democrats to hold statewide office in Kansas. She defeated a deeply conservative opponent in 2002 and has since put the state on the path to prosperity. Under her leadership, Kansas has exceeded economic growth forecasts, and Sebelius — making good on her promise to strengthen public schools — won a major legislative victory against her likely GOP opponent, the state House speaker, who forced a showdown on a critical school funding measure. Republicans are eager to reclaim the governorship of this “red” state and have made Sebelius one of their top targets. … Paid for by … Kathleen Sebelius Committee, Jim DeCoursey, Treasurer …

Both the EMILY’s List web page and E-mail failed to mention any of Sebelius’ long list of accomplishments protecting abortion in Kansas dating back to the 1980s. In 1992 the late Archbishop Strecker of Kansas City, KS opined “Rep. Kathleen Seblius of Topeka led the death march of the unborn to the abortion clinics in the House of Representatives” (see below). In recent years Sebelius’ vetos blocked regulations on abortion clinics, which have fewer regulations to follow than veterinarian clinics.

In 2001 even the Lawrence-Journal World acknowledged that Kansas had the dubious distinction of being one of the abortion capitals of the nation. Other articles suggest that Kansas in now the late-term abortion capital of the world, since Dr. Tiller in Wichita is willing to perform a “therapeutic abortion” even the day before a child could be born naturally.

Oddly, in Oct. 2002 Kathleen Sebelius sent an E-mail to selected Catholics because of phone calls that were “completely false” (see below). Sebelius complained that “Some have also received campaign literature that says my campaign has been funded with hundreds of thousands from a Political Action Committee started and active in Kansas around the issue of abortion.” (Was this statement “false” since the group was not founded in Kansas?) Is Sebelius trying to play both sides of the fence on this issue?

In her mailing Sebelius stated “I am not pro-abortion. … I am a practicing Catholic. I went to Catholic schools.” Why did Archbishop Strecker chide her in 1992 for leading “the death march of the unborn to the abortion clinics”? Does Sebelius understand the “Catholic Call to Political Responsibility” published by the U.S. Conference of Catholics Bishop? In particular, the part about “life and dignity of the human person”?

Sebelius also asked in her letter “Please work with me to make sure abortion is rare …” Wouldn’t “rare” be about as often as Kansas has exercised capital punishment in recent years?

Why doesn’t Sebelius help Attorney General Kline protect young girls from sexual molestation, child predators, and illegal late-term abortions? In today’s Salina Journal’s Tom Bell opined “This time, Phill Kline is on target: If patient information in abortion cases is OK for raising funds, why not provide it to law enforcement?” (see p. A9) A Feb 25, 2005 Kansas Meadowlark article documented Dr. Tiller’s removing information from his web site that he had used private patient information for his own political fundraisers. What was Dr. Tiller trying to hide? Is Sebelius more interested in helping Dr. Tiller, a big-time contributor, or vulnerable, young girls that are victims of sexual predators?

Did Sebelius benefit, directly or indirectly, from the $100,000 contribution made by Dr. Tiller to the Democratic Governor’s Association in 2002? The Kansas Press has never reported a $100,000 contribution made on Aug 15, 2002 to the Democratic Governors’ Association’s 527 Committee by Dr. George Tiller’s Women’s Heath Care Services clinic in Wichita. Tiller had supported Sebelius in previous elections, but no known money was ever found for Tiller’s support for Sebelius as Kansas Governor in 2002.

Dr. Tiller, his PAC ProKanDo, and certain Kansas Democratic officials were quite clever in complicated money transfers to hide the flow of Tiller’s money in the 2002 election against Phill Kline until after the election was over.

Chris Gallway was one of the Kansas Democrats that architected those transfers in 2002 of Tiller’s money (but apparently could not pay his own $18,000 in Topeka parking tickets). Gallaway has gone on to become the head of the Young Democrats of America and apparently is architecting such “tricks” now on the national level. An official of a Democratic organization in another state contacted the Kansas Meadowlark several months ago:

…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.

Are Sebelius and the Kansas Democrats architecting “tricky” plans to hide their use of abortion money in many of the elections next year?

Do we want Kansas known as the “Wheat State,” the airplane capital of the world, or the abortion capital of the world? Sebelius can help maintain our dubious distinction as an abortion capital.