‘Star’ rewards no-commenter with edit space

By DAVID MARTIN

Monday’s Kansas City Star did a bad thing. It gave a newsmaker a prominent platform in the same issue he dodged questions from one of the paper’s writers.

Tim Golba, the former president of Kansans for Life, is now championing the direct elections of judges in Johnson County. Golba (pictured) says partisan elections will lead to better, more open government. But his history crusading against abortion rights suggests that he’s mostly interested in putting Phill Kline and his ilk on the bench. As I pointed out in a recent column, Golba’s group, Kansans for Judicial Review, betrays a socially conservative outlook by noting the A+ grades a “gay rights website” gave some Kansas Supreme Court justices.