Ron ThornburghThe road to Cedar Crest just got a helluva lot easier for U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback. Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh announced today that he's out of the running for Kansas governor in 2010. Basically, he didn't think he could pull out the W. That leaves Brownback in the race for the Republicans. And if Sunday's bit of rumoring is true, maybe Bill Kurtis running as a Democrat will give Senator Sam a run for his money in the November election.
Bill KurtisSteve Kraske, you were so wrong. The Topeka Capital-Journal played rumor killer Monday, squashing the political scuttlebutt about former CBS newsman Bill Kurtis running as a Democrat for Kansas governor in 2010. Kurtis told the Cap-Journal that it's pure fantasy."No, I am not running for governor. Not interested in it," he said
in a telephone message Monday. "I'm just trying to survive the
depression. And judging from the success I'm having, I have no business
handling anybody else's
Scott Kurtis, in a family photo, as a young boy. The son of legendary Chicago newsman Bill Kurtis was found dead at Kurtis' cattle ranch in Sedan, Kansas. A report in the Chicago Tribune says 38-year-old Scott Kurtis had suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since his teens. It's a really sad story, and Scott Kurtis' stepmother, Donna LaPietra, tells the story of a man with mental illness living a lonely life.
"Quite frankly, there's not very much anyone can do so he struggled with t
