The Kansas Meadowlark

Jan 5, 2007
(updated Jan 7, 2007)

Vindictive Paul and Joyce Morrison Now Pushing Personal Hate Campaign Against Phill Kline
Paul Morrison was elected the new Kansas Attorney General in November, but you can't tell Morrison was the winner by his recent vindictive actions, and those of his wife, Joyce, against Phill Kline.  

Why did Paul Morrison use the "F-word" several times when talking to Assistant Kansas Attorney General, Steve Maxwell, recently while Maxwell was visiting the District Attorney's office in Olathe?  Just how many DA staff members witnessed this unprofessional conduct by Morrison? Why was Morrison attacking Maxwell because Maxwell will be a prosecutor on Kline's DA staff?  

Is it true that in a recent encounter in Olathe that Paul Morrison refused to shake hands with Phill Kline?

In the last few days, Joyce Morrison, Paul's wife, sent this E-mail to her friends in Johnson County and asked them to continue the E-mail chain: 

To my taxpaying friends in Johnson County,

I'm concerned that the Johnson County Commissioners are caving in to Phill Kline's demands that he start at Paul's current salary. And a decision is expected this week, possibly Thursday.

Outrageous.

Paul spent 25 years EARNING that salary. Kline is a beginner and should receive the beginner's salary. Base pay. Not Paul's pay.

Contact the commissioners at BOCC-Commissioners@jocogov.org or 913-715-0500.

And share this note with other Johnson County residents.

Joyce Morrison
913-310-0472

Switchboard shows this phone number is for a business, Media Events, at Paul Morrison's home address.  According to the Paul Morrison for AG web site:

Joyce Morrison owns her own public relations business, Media Events. She is an award winning public relations practitioner and journalist.

Is an E-mail chain-letter campaign to get back at the loser in the Attorney General's race an "award winning public relations" move? 

Yesterday, Paul Morrison spent Johnson County Government resources to send a vindictive, hateful letter (see below) to the Johnson County Board of Commissioners, appealing for them to lower Phill Kline's starting salary.  Is this professional?  Is this ethical?  If Morrison was so hate-filled that he had to send the letter, why didn't he write it on his own time on paper that was not paid for by taxpayers?  Was Morrison, himself, being a good steward of tax dollars by this action?

Doesn't Morrison have better things to do, with taxpayer resources during his last days as Johnson County District Attorney? 

 

Update:

... Meanwhile, Morrison on Thursday told Johnson County commissioners that he was concerned about their plan to pay Kline a salary of $143,000, the same amount Morrison was earning.

In a letter to the board, Morrison said it was his understanding that the commissioners are only required to pay Kline $114,000.

“Mr. Kline has never tried a criminal jury trial in his life and was appointed against the wishes of the vast majority of the electorate of his county,” Morrison stated in the letter. “… To pay someone who has shockingly little experience such a salary is inappropriate and fiscally irresponsible.”

At minimum, he said, the residents of Johnson County deserve a public hearing.

Commissioner Ed Peterson agreed.

Judging by the 60-some messages in his e-mail box, Peterson said Friday, the nonpartisan board should address the new district attorney’s salary in some public fashion, although he’s just not sure how.

“There’s a lot of merit to the concerns expressed that he doesn’t have the experience of his predecessor,” he said.

“On the other hand, by making it personal you bring in politics.”

[Meadowlark note:  The Star failed to discover or report that Paul Morrison's wife was behind many of the 60 E-mails reported by Democrat County Commissioner, Ed Peterson, who is the husband of liberal Kansas City Star columnist, Laura Scott.]

 

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