ByMikeHal THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

The bad blood between Lawrence

businessman Larry Sinks and

University pf Kansas officials that

l8ndŁd thei ma federal courtroom

this week began years ago.

Under questioning first from the

university s attorney, Charlie Henn,

then from Sinks attorney, Jim lilly,

the unlvers director of licensing,

Paul Vand Tuig, told the story as

he saw it

Vander Tuig has been in that

position sir 1993. The first agreement

between the university and

Sinks company, Midwest Graphics

Inc., goes back to 1987 but was renewed

several times until Sinks sold

the company in 1996.

Midwest Graphics was licensed

by the university to produce T-shirts

and other products with universityrelated

related graphics and words. Vander

Tuig described that working relationship

as generally OK, although

there were some disagreements

over some of the edgy designs

Sinks wanted to produce. Eventually

an audit of the business showed

U seller

have colorful history

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that Sinks bad underreported the

sales of the KU-related pmducts,

which meant he paid less myalty

money than the university was entitled

to, VanderTuig said.

After Sinks sold Midwest Graphics,

the relationship with the company

became Óvery good7 Vander

Thig said.

Under the terms of the sale

agreement Sinks was prohibited

from operating a competing busi

business in the Lawrence area for five

years.

In 2001, Sinks created Victoiy

Sport and appmached the

university for a license to pmduce

KU-themed T-shirts. He was

turned down, Vander Thig said,

for a number of reasons Ù his

tendency to produce designs that

would be offensive to some people,

his past record of underreporting

sales, and the fact that there were

enough other screen printers In the

Lawrence area to produce all the

goods the university could Imagine

seUing.

Meanwhile, Sinks openedabusiness

known as Joe-College.com,

which Is both a retail store at 734

Massachusetts hi Law and an

nnIin nnÒ4prina hii

Both skies of the business sold

Items that the university claims

Infringe on Its trademazks, such as

the names ÓJayhawkÒ and ÓKansasÔ

In KUÒs distinctive color combination

of crimson and blue.

In faci a KU Web page was dis

displayed that identified the blue as

Pantone Ma!ching System 293 and

the crimsonas PMS 186.

lilly asked Vander Tuig whether

any ana1ysi had been done to

determine whether SinksÒ T- were PMS 2

No, he replied, but the color is so

similar that if it werenÒt PMS 293,

it would be very close. Even the

licensed vendors vary slightly in

their product colors he said.

The sparnng between the tiniversity

and Sinks reached the point

that 10 days after the announcement

was made in 2006 that the

KU football field would be named

Kivisto Field, named for donors

Tom and Julie lUvisto, Sinks appft

d for a trademark on the name

Kivisto.

KUÒs fedemi lawsuit alleging

trademark infringement against

Sinks will continue this weelñ take a

one-week break and resume July 7.

Mike Hall can be reached

at (785) 295-1209 or

mikeizall@cjonhin& corn.

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Chabad to expand facilities at KU

By Beth Upoff

Staff Writer

After starting with just a

handful of students two years

ago, the Chabad House at University

of Kansas has found itself

bursting at the seams with nearly 40 students coming for

Shabbat dinner there each

week. In response, they are expanding

their facilities.

Currently located in one

side of a duplex at 1203 W. 19th

St. in Lawrence, Chabad House

has acquired the other half,

where Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel

and his family have been living.

The Tiechtels will move to another

home, and Chabad House will expand to fill the whole duplex.

We feel that the more space there is, the more people will

come, said Nechama Tiechtel, Rabbi Tiechtel s wife.

To make the space more usable,

the duplex wifi undergo construction, starting in November.

Nechama Tiechtel said they expect the construction to

take about three months, and the current space will remain

available for students to use

throughout the process.

Between buying the lot and

implementing the construction,

the project s total cost now

sits at $450,000. Through donations

and a matching grant

from the Rohr Family Foundation, they have already raised

$300,000, which enabled them to buy the lot without taking out a

mortgage. The design and construction

of the new facility is

being handled by Treanor Architects.

After construction, the

building wifi contain a large social

hail where student can

gather for meals, classes and

holiday celebrations, as well as

more office space, a larger

kitchen, a computer lab and a

student lounge.

We had to do high holidays

on campus (this year). The goal

is to create a place where there s room for everything

and right by campus where students can come by anytime to

hang out, Rabbi Tiechtel said.

The fa ade of the building

will retain the home-like quailties

of the current building.

It was very important to us

that it shouldn t look like a reg

regular building, Nechama Tiechtel said.

Marc Kulick, a 20-year-old

history major from Leawood, has been going to Chabad since it started at KU his

freshman yeat The first Shabbat was

me and two other people

and now there are 30 to 40

students that come weekly.

(Rabbi Tiechtel has)

done a great job of getting

the name out, Kullck

said. A lot of times, there

have been a ton of people

(at an event), and people

have been outside and inside,

and this will centralrze

it.

Community member Leni Salkind said the extra

room would be welcome,

because there are

so many students who

come to Chabad s activities.

She said she was impressed

with Rabbi Tiechtel s

efforts to encourage the expansion.

I think most organ!- Above,

zations would take a look. B

much longer time to get next tc

to the point where they duplex

can increase in size and have

the funding in place to do that,

Sailcinti said. It s another venue

in the community for Jewish

student to get together and take part in Jewish activities and Jewish life. That s a real plus for students at KU

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Wilson receives Classics award The Department of Classics at the

University of Kansas recognized 13

of its top graduate and undergradute

students with more than $8,000

in awards and scholarships at its 33rd

annual spring honors reception.

Cheryl Lynne Wilson of KCK, a

master s student in classics, received

the Mildred Lord Greef essay award.

It honors the best paper written for a

classics course.

Students in KU s classics department

study Greek and Latin as well as Greek

and Roman literature, civilization and

archaeology.

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KU journalism

students use

lessons to benefit

clients

University of Kansas

students enrolled in Principles

of Advertising this

spring teamed with the

Center for Service Learning

and used classroom

lessons to help two organizations

improve their

marketing strategies:

Six teams of students

promoted the Lawrence

Habitat for Humanity ReStore

and six teams promoted

KU s Department

of Student Housing.

Laura Vest, daughter of

Dan Vest of Augusta, was

part of the Student Housing

team.

Students submitted

weekly diaries and

timesheets to document

learning and experience

gained.

The Student Housing

team worked to enhance

occupancy in KU student

housing facilities. They

created strategies based

on findings from focus

groups held at four of the

university s residence

halls.

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Gaij,roducti n rises in SEK

LAWRENCE A relatively new method

of recovering methane from underground

coal beds helped elevate production and

push several southeast Kansas counties

among the top gas-producing counties in

Kansas.

The Kansas Geological Survey, based

at the University of Kansas, said Wilson

County, which 11th in gas production

in 2006, rose to eighth place in 2007

and onto a list of top producers previously

comprised only of southwestern counties

located in the expansive Hugoton

Gas Area. The new method of recovering

methane helped elevate production in

Wilson and surrounding counties

Montgomery County rose two placesi

from 13th to 11th. Meanwhile, Neosho

County rose to 12th place.

The Cherokee Basin Coal Area in

southeast Kansas ranks third among gas

fields in the state, producing 33.5 billion

cubic feet of gas.The Hugoton Gas Area,

the most widespread gas area in the

Western Hemisphere, stifi dominated production

in Kansas despite recent declines

following decades of drilling. The Hugoton

ton and Pomona fields in western Kansas remained the top two fields in 2007, producing

166.3 billion cubic feet and 45.7

billion cubic feet respectively.

The question now is how far north

can methane coal be developed in Kansas

since data indicates that the coals are

thinner and gas content decreases in that

irection, said Lynn Watney, a geologist

How has gas production increased in

Montgomery County? According to the

Kansas Geological Survey, the number

of gas wells in Montgomery County in

1995 was 244, creating 21,660,771 metric

cubic feet of gas. In 2008, the number

of gas wells had grown more than

six fold while gas production rose three

fold.

YEAR WELLS CUMULATIVE (mcf)

1995 244 21,660,711

1996 309 23,136,366

1997 267 24,446,825

1998 220 25,538,074

1999 238 26,584,825

2000 280 27,768,926

2001 359 29.322.860

2002 391 30;968,292

2003 499 33,940,568

2004 695 38,403,319

2005 939 44,543,964

2006 1391 52,828,693

2007 1638 63,861,259

2008* 1589 65,803,324

PtoJ.cted numbsrs

at the Kansas Geological Survey.

Once considered a menace because it

could cause explosions in underground

mines, coalbed methane has been captured

and sold since the 1980s and has

become more economical to produce as

energy prices rise.

Total gas production in Kansas for 2007 was 371 billion cubic feet, down from 37

billion cubic feet In 2006. Seventy-six percent

of the 2007 production came from

the top 10 counties. The total value of the

state s gas production In 2007 was $2.3

billion, down about $100 million from

2006.

Oil production in the state rose slightly

in 2007. The top 10 oil-producing counties

are located In western, central and north

central Kansas: Effis County, 3.1 million

barrels; Rooks, Russell and Barton, nearly

2 mifilon barrels each; Ness, Haskell,

Graham, Finney, Stafford and Butler.

All were on the list In 2006.

Total oil production for the state in

2007 was 36.6 million barrels, up from

35.7 million barrels In 2006. Nearly 48

percent of that was from the top 10 counties.

The total value of the 2007 production

was $2.34 billion, up $140 million

over 2006 and $540 million over 2005.

In response to Increases In the price of

oil, producers are reworking wells, applying

technologies to recover oil that was

previously not economical to pump and

using three-dimensional seismic techniques

to find and develop new fields.

We ve had a turn around going on

since 2000 that s reflected in increased(

activity, Watney said. In 1999 oil was $9)

a barrel.

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Coalbed methane wells have grown like summer weeds in Montgomery County in recent years. Montgomery County had 244 gas

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jc5 (Andover teather wins

$3,000 award from KU

Russell Thiel, chemistry and

honors chemistry teacher at

Andover High School, is among four recipients

statewide of the University of

Kansas Wolfe Teaching

Excellence Award.

The award recognizes educators

who have encouraged and positively influenced students.

Thiel received a cash award

of $3,000, and the school

received $1,000.

Candidates were nominated by former students. Thiel was

nominated by Maggie Murphy a 2005 graduate of Andover

School.

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Consinvatives flip-flopped on cap-and-tradi

By Robed L Blickeman

It wasn t long ago that conservative

critics of environmental regulation including the industnes that pollute

the nation s air, water and land claimed that a market-based approach

was the only sensible

way to control environmentally

damaging

activities. Earlier

this month in the

U.S. Senate, that s

exactly what was on

offer, in the form of a

cap-and-trade system

Glicksman for limiting the

greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change. But

when presented with a bill adopting

the approach they d once championed,

the conservatives refused to take yes

for an answer.

During the 1970s and 1980s, conservatives

railed against efforts to protect

public health and the environment,

deriding emissions restrictions as

command-and-control, even Sovietstyle,

style, regulation. They promoted such

market-based solutions as emissionstrading

trading markets, which were superior

because they would achieve environmental

protection goals more efficiently.

A cap-and-trade system was their

preferred approach. It would allow

those with low costs of controlling pollution

to limit their emissions more

than traditional environmental regulations

would have required, and then to

sell their excess allowances to those

with high pollution-control costs.

Those who purchased allowances would satisfy their legal obligations by

buying emission allowances instead of

limiting their emissions.

Progressives were skeptical at first.

They feared that emissions trading

would amount to little more than a

shell game in which polluters

exchanged credits or allowances on

paper, obscuring the fact that no real

environmental progress was being

made. They also argued that polluters

ought to be requIred to reduce emis

emissions as much as they could, a standard

inconsistent with a system in which

polluters can buy their way out of

emissions-control obligations.

Ultimately, in 1990 Congress decided

to give the approach a try, creating a cap-and-trade program for electric

utilities aimed at controlling acid rain.

By most accounts, it succeeded in

reducing add-rain-causing sulfur dioxide

emissions effectively and efficiently.

Other emissions-trading programs

implemented by state officials were

less successful, in part because of the

difficulty of monitoring the sale and

purchase of allowances.

Nevertheless, the acid-rain experi

experience convinced enough people including some environmentalists previously

skeptical of emissions trading.

As a result, the major climate-change

bills introduced in Congress this session

centered on a cap-and-trade program

for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

This month, the Senate debated such

a bill, with bipartisan sponsorship by

Sens. John Warner, R-Va., Joe

Lieberman, I-Conn., and Barbara

Boxer, D-Calif.. The hue and cry

against the bifi from industry and its

conservative allies in Congress was

deafening.

Notably, their arguments against

cap-and-trade echoed the ones they

made about command-and-control approaches. Suddenly, the marketbased

based approach they d championed in

the past was a manifestation of economy-wrecking,

big government, taxand-spend and-spend liberalism.

The plain truth is that these critics

will find something to attack no matter

what form environmental protection

legislation takes. They are more concerned

with protecting what they

regard as the property right of polluters

to make a profit by fouling our air, land and water than they are with

controffing polluting activities that

threaten our health and destroy the

environment.

Robert L Glicksman is a professor of law at

the University of Kansas.

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The plain truth is that these critics will find something to attack no matter

what form environmental protection legislation takes.

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needs

poll

workers But Cowley County

does not have a

shortage.

WICHITA (AP) Several

Kansas counties could have a

shortage of poii workers for

the coming elections.

Bill Gale, Sedgwick

County election commissioner,

said polis are fully staffed

for August primaries, but

about 330 more workers will

be needed for the November

general election.

The bad thing about that

is when we re short, that

means more work for those

that are there, Gale said.

Especially with a busy day

that we re expecting this

November, we d really like to

have those positions filled.

Brad Bryant, state election

director, said many Kansas

counties could experience a

shortage.

It might be worse this

year because we re expecting

a larger turnout, so some

counties might be beefing up

their staff, Bryant said.

He said counties are getting

creative to fill the positions.

Counties have the

option of hiring 16- and 17-

year-olds, and Gale said that

Sedgwick County may recruit

at high schools and colleges if

the positions are empty when

school starts in the fall.

This spring, Douglas

County s election office tried

to recruit University of

Kansas students via e-mail.

The f signed by

University of Kansas

Chancellor Bob Hemenway,

invited students to participate

in this important civic

endeavor by staffing the

polls.

In contrast, Cowley County

doesn t have the shortage of

poll workers that other counties

seem to be experiencing,

according to county clerk

Karen Brooks.

Brooks said with the voting

questionnaire the county

sends out on election years,

the feedback she gets from

people who want to work the

polls has never been lacking.

Most of the people that

live in Cowley County are

excited about elections, said

Brooks. They are more than

willing to help, and they realize

how important voting is.

Brooks also said her job

has been made easier by the

scores of residents who come

forward during election years,

despite their busy schedules.

It takes a lot of people to

make an election successful,

Brooks said. We re very

lucky here.

Kansas isn t the only state

hurting for workers. About 2

million poll positions are open

nationwide. Bryant said

young people have a lot to

offer as workers.

They have strong backs

and, technologically, they re

not intimidated by the equipment,

he said.

With the average age for

poll workers in Kansas at 62,

Bryant said changes in technology

may also contribute to

fewer people willing to work

the polls.

State laws have increased

pay for workers and offered

half-day shifts as an alternative

to the 16-hour days. The

pay was about 50 cents an

hour when Dow M. Summers

Jr., 70, started working election

days 26 years ago. A fullday

day shift now pays $120,

about $7.50 an hour, but

Summers says he would do it

for free.

My main goal is to get

people out to vote everybody

I see, Summers said.

Joshua Ames of the

Courier staff contributed to

this report.

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Court denies hearing on immi tuition

B KESSINGER

Harris News Service k 1 - The US. Supreme ( on Thursday denied an

immigration reform group s request

for a hearing to challenge

Kansas in-state tuition law for

illegal immigrants. It was the third time a court

haU rejected such a bid in the

case, which the plaintiffs attors

ey said was no surprise.

The odds of the Supreme

COUrt taking this up were extremely

slim, said Kris Kobach,

immigration law professor al

the University of Missouri

Kansas City and a lead counsel

in the case.

The 2004 law allows the children

of undocumented workers

to pay hi-state tuition at public

colleges and universities if they

have attended high school in

Kansas for at least three years and have earned a diploma or

general education development certificate.

The students must sign an affidavit

confirming they wifi seek

U.S. citizenship when they become

eligible. About 200 students

each year have attended

college under the statute, according

to the Kansas Board of

Regents.

-

Supporters

Supporters of the law were

pleased with Thi order

It is huge, said Ian Bautista,

who led El Centro, a Kansas City immigrant rights organization,

when the lawsuit was filed. It

puts the state statute to allow

students to attend in-state colleges

and universities on very

solid ground.

The case originated in 2004 on

behalf of the Washington, D.Cbased

Federation for American Immigration Reform. The group represented several students

paying out-of-state tuition at

Kansas State University and the

Univers They alleg Wlaw was unfair because

it denied them the right to

nay in-state tuition, which is

much less expensive.

Defendants in the case, including

the state s Board of Regents,

argued that the plaintiffs

had the right to pay in-state tuition

in their home states.

The case was rejected at both

the U.S. district court and appellate

court levels. Judges in those

cases ruled that the plaintiffs

lacked standing, meaning they were not affected by the law.

Kobach, who is also the

Kansas Republican Party chairman, made a last-ditch effort last

year to gain an audience before

the nation s highest court.

The court on Thursday denied

Kobach s petition for a writ of

certiori, a requirement for the court to hear the case. The order

contained no reason for denial.

The high court receives about

8,000 requests for hearings each

year and only accepts about 1

percent, Kobach said.

Thursday s denial doesn t express

any type of judgment on

the merits of the case, he said.

No court has even considered

the question of whether Kansas

statute violates federal law

Kobach added that the law

could still be challenged in state

court or by another set of differently

situated plaintiffs at

the federal level.

Bautista said he hopes the or-

order

der sets a precedent for state s

rights. Kansas is among 10 states

that have passed the tuition law.

It s refreshing Kansas is lead.

ing the nation in seeking justice

for really bright kids who wifi be part of the next generation of

leaders in our country

Kobach, an advocate for

greater immigration restrictions,

is working on a similar

case in a California state court,

which wifi be argued later this

summer Elsewhere in the country he also represents city and

county governments in five

court cases on local ordinances

that deal with ifiegal immigrants.

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Sebenus may be at career crossroads

I Ties to Obama p her leverage on na level, running mate or not

By CHRIs GREEN

Harris News Service

cgreen@dailynews.net

TOPEKA - She s among the

most talked-about options

when the pundits speculate

about who Barack Obama will select to be his running mate.

But Kansas Gov. Kathleen

Sebelius isn t doing much talking

about her political aspirations

beyond her present role

as the state s chief executive.

Even so, -political observers

across the state are keenly

watching the trajectory of her careei which could have profound

political implications

within the state, as well as national

politics.

Should the presumptive Democratic nominee for president

select someone other

than Sebelius for the No.2 slot,

analysts say her prospects on

the national level would be far

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from dimmed. SebeliusÒ rising national profile

and the tight political bond

she has forged with the Illinois

senator could continue to open

doors for hei they say.

Kansas State University p0- litical scientist Joe Aistrup

said that should Obama win

the Nov. 4 presidential election,

Sebelius would likely be a

prime candidate for a top post

within his administration.

ÓI think she is very likely to

be sought after for a role at the

national level,Ô Aistrup said.

ÓWhether or not she accepts Ù

thatÒs another story That is her

decision. But IÒd say the likelihood

is very good that sheÒd be

offered a role as a cabinet secretary

or some other role of

importance within the administration.Ô

Burdett Loomis, a University

of Kansas politicaf pro agrees that Sebelius

has probably set herself up for

a political future in Washington,

D.C., should she want the

opportunity.

ÓWithout any inside knowledge,

sure I think that, by and

large, the governor has put herself

in a situation to possibly

have a national role,Ô said

Loomis, who worked within

her administration in 2005 before

returning to the university.

But Loomis said itÒs probably

even more significant that the state governmentÒs top official

has developed such strong

ties with the man who could be

the next president.

ÓWhether or not she takes

the opportunity or declines it,Ô

Loomis said of SebeliusÒ potential

national role, ÓI donÒt think

thereÒs any question that sheÒs

solidified a really strong relationship

with Barack Obama.Ô

ÓA large figureÔ

Much of the chatter in recent

weeks has centered on whether Sebelius, a two-term Democratic

governor in a predominantly

Republican state, would be the

right choice to be ObamaÒs vice

presidential nominee.

Analysts generally cite her

executive experience as a

strength since sheÒs the twoterm

Democratic governor of

a predominantly Republican state. But some argue that she

doesnÒt have the necessary toreign

policy experience or possess

the ability to woo very

many additional votes for Obama.

Others note sheÒd face long

odds in trying to even deliver

her home state for Obama. Because

it tends to be a Republican

stronghold, Kansas is

seen as likely to tilt toward the

presumptive GOP nominee,

Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Sebelius herself, who is

term-limited in 2010, isnÒt saying

much about her chances

of landing on the Democratic

ticket. Earlier this month, she

told reporters that ObamaÒs Selection

of a running mate is entirely

up to him.

ÓWhile I appreciate the press

interest, this important process has just begun and

Senator Obama wifi let everyone know when it is complete,Ô

Sebelius said at the time.

The governor also hasnÒt

said whether sheÒd be interested in a cabinet post or some

other role within the administration,

spokeswoman Nicole

Corcoran said.

ÓGovernor Sebelius has said she wifi do whatever she can to

support Barack Obama, as she

believes he is the right leader

for our countryÔ Corcoran

said. ÓShe has not been more specific than that except to say

that these decisions are his to

make, in his own time.Ô

if sheÒs actually selected to

be ObamaÒs running mate, Sebelius

could campaign with

Obama and remain the stateÒs governoi said Stephanie Wing,

a spokeswoman for Secretary

of State Ron Thor wh oversees elections.

Should Sebelius resign to

take a post in an Obama administration,

it would elevate Lt.

Gov. Mark Parkinson to finish out SebeliusÒ unexpired term. Parkinson would apparently

have the option of naming his own lieutenant governor under

that scenario, Wing said. Aistrup said itÒs difficult to

envision the stateÒs political

landscape without Sebelius.

ThatÒs because she has been

front-and-center as state officials

have dealt with a record

budget deficit, passed historic

increases in schools, authorized

state-owned casinos and

battled over coal plants in

southwest Kansas.

ÓShe has been a large figure

in the stateÒs politics over the

past six years,Ô Aistrup said.

Her departure would also be

a huge change for Kansas Democrats,

who have seen Sebelius

play a key role in building

up the party The governor has helped buoy the partyÒs

fundraising efforts and led the

party to historic wins in the

2006 elections.

Despite that, Allan White,

the Saline County Democratic

PartyÒs chairman, said heÒs

happy to see that Sebelius

could be considered for a leading

role within ObamaÒs administration.

White, who lives in Sauna,

said it shows that Obama wants to surround himself

with the nationÒs best and

ghtest public officials,

which would be good for the

country.

ÓIÒm just glad heÒs seeking

top qua1it and Kathleen Sebelius

is top qualityÔ White said.

New focus?

But SebeliusÒ national rise

isnÒt going unnoticed by her

fiercest critics, either

Christian Morgan, the state GOPÒs executive director, said

that he believes SebeliusÒ focus

has shifted from running the state to bettering her image in

the national media.

Since endorsing Obama in

January Sebelius has campaigned

for the senator in

places as varied as Colorado,

Utah, Ohio and Mississippi.

In recent weeks, Sebelius

has addressed a Democratic event in her home state of

Ohio and seen her name mentioned

in dozens of national

newspaper articles and on television.

Over the past month, Corcoran

said the governorÒs office

has responded to at least 30 local,

state and national press in

regard to speculation about Scbelius

and the vice presidency

Corcoran said the governorÒs

campaign stops generally happen when sheÒs outside the

state for another event, such as

policy lectures, or on her own personal time.

But Morgan said SebeliusÒ

efforts to bolster Obama arenÒt helping address the pressing

problems that Kansas faces,

such as keeping jobs from leaving

the state.

ÓI donÒt think thereÒs any

doubt that the governor is focused

100 percent on Barack

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ObamaÒs campaign,Ô Morgan said.

But Loomis said that should Obama win, Kansans could

benefit in the long run from his

ties to Sebelius, particularly if

she decides to finish out her

term as governor.

Should Democrats win sig

significantly more seats in the

Legislature this fall, Sebelius

may also see an opening for

leaving a bigger legacy in

Kansas, he said.

ÓI think the 2008 election wifi

be very important,Ô Loomis

said, Óand who knows what

wifi happen with Kathleen and flh

But Morgan said heÒd actually

be happy to see Sebelius find

a new job outside Kansas because

the party doesnÒt believe her policies have been helping

the state.

ÓI wouÒd help her pack her

bags,Ô Morgan said.

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