Public meets the new Attorney General
7:26 p.m. Friday, January 18, 2008
Judge Stephen Six, along with his wife Betsy, and their four children, appeared with the governor as she made her announcement.
"Ladies and gentlemen: I'm proud to announce Kansas' new Attorney General, Judge Stephen Six," Governor Sebelius said.
Six is currently a Douglas County District Judge. And with this new position, he's actually taking a $22,000 a year pay cut.
And it's not the first time. Six says he took a similar pay cut when he left his private practice to become a district judge.
The Republican response
Kansas Republicans say Six is, in their words, a "surprising choice." A statement today from the Kansas Republican Party says they don't know much about him. But they do say they're confident he'll be a better attorney general than Paul Morrison.
"I think Betsy's a little concerned about me having any more success, so we'll leave it at that," Six said.
His resume is one of the things the governor says qualified Six for the job over any other candidate.
"I'm confident he has the legal mind, experience, and determination to be a great AG," the governor said.
And Six the family man seems like the right candidate to restore the public's trust to the attorney general's office, an office tainted after current AG Paul Morrison was brought down by a sex scandal.
"We looked very hard for someone who not only had a great professional record, but a great personal record," Sebelius said.
When asked if he was concerned about the scrutiny he would face, Six said, "I've had a conversation with my family and Betsy and I are very comfortable with the idea of the responsibilities of my accepting the job as AG."
And he says he'll count on his family more than ever before to help him deal with the pressure of this very public position.
The new attorney general is the son of Fred Six, who served on the Kansas Supreme Court for 15 years.
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Jan. 20, 2008 at 1:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)parkay (anonymous)
Douglas County District Court Judge Stephen Six in January, 2006 ordered Stephen Scott, 22, to up to six months at the Labette County boot camp, followed by two years of supervised probation, for 8 counts of statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. Minimum sentence should have been 12 years, but a detestable plea bargain let him plead to 3 counts of attempted aggravated indecent liberties, and will let young American girls be subjected to a continued threat from this, yet another predator turned loose on them by Douglas County.
Mr. Scott's shyster, friends, former teachers and family members attested to his "character" for the "court" – and Six fell for it.
It remains to be seen how far AG nominee Six will fall for the wide-spread attempted cover-up of abortion mill crime.
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