Reply #11: Look who is going to run for Secretary of State in Kansas.

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"Suffrage doesn't please female Kansas state senator

By FINN BULLERS - The Kansas City Star
Date: 09/27/01 22:15

A prominent female state senator has said that she does not support the 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote, and that if it were being considered today she would vote against it.

Sen. Kay O'Connor recently told the co-presidents of the Johnson County League of Women Voters that the amendment was the first step in a decades-long erosion of traditional family values.

The Olathe Republican was in the audience at a public affairs forum on juvenile justice at Johnson County Community College on Sept. 19, when league co-president Delores Furtado asked her if she was planning to attend the league's "Celebrate the Right to Vote" luncheon.

"You probably wouldn't want me there because of what I would have to say," O'Connor told Furtado after the forum had ended.

"Wasn't it in the best interest of our country to give women the right to vote?" Furtado asked the senator.

"Not necessarily so," O'Connor said. "

http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3acd030e.927,.html

Posted on Thu, Jun. 02, 2005


Sen. O'Connor sets her sights on being Kansas secretary of state

By STEVE KRASKE

The Kansas City Star


Kansas Sen. Kay O'Connor, the outspoken conservative who once became embroiled in a controversy over a woman's right to vote, wants to be the state's top elections official.

On Tuesday, O'Connor formed a political committee that will enable her to begin raising money for a secretary of state campaign.

“I really want the secretary of state to do more,” said O'Connor, 63.

Her entry could mean a GOP primary pitting O'Connor against Ron Thornburgh, the three-term incumbent. Thornburgh is considering a run for governor, but has not ruled out trying for a fourth term.


http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11791807.htm