Kline’s Name Looms Over Senate Race

By JUSTIN KENDALL

Don’t cry for Phill.

Phill Kline is a noose around Mary Pilcher Cook’s neck. Two nights ago, Cook faced Sue Gamble, the roaring mouth of the Kansas Board of Education, in a Johnson County Young Republicans’ candidate forum at Barley’s Brewhaus. Three times, Cook was asked if she supports Kline, the controversial anti-abortion Johnson County District Attorney, and each time Cook treated Kline’s name like arsenic.