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Court records obtained by the Pitch reveal that Kilpatrick has seen plenty of trouble over the past five years. She has bounced checks and refused to pay rent. A month after a trip to Aruba to join the search for Natalee Holloway, Kilpatrick was arrested for shoplifting at a SuperTarget.
Kilpatrick and her campaign have been sued twice for outstanding debts. A lawsuit filed in Wyandotte County District Court in May alleges that Kilpatrick repeatedly refused to pay the Record News, a Kansas City, Kansas, bulk-mailing company, for campaign signs; the company is seeking $2,300.82.
She's also being sued by The Source, a Topeka marketing firm run by GOP political operatives Kristian Van Meteren and Jared Suhn. The Source's client list reads like a who's who of conservative Kansas politicians: U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, Attorney General Phill Kline and five conservative Kansas Board of Education members, as well as Kansans For Life and the Intelligent Design Network.
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