Kansas Supreme Court disbars GOP candidate for lieutenant governor

[Thom Little]

A Republican candidate for lieutenant governor who accused court officials of misconduct and other attorneys of participating in illegal baby trafficking lost his law license Friday.

The Kansas Supreme Court disbarred Bret D. Landrith, of Topeka, citing his comments about officials and other attorneys, which it said he had failed to support with "even an iota" of evidence. The court also questioned his competence.

Landrith said during an interview that he's been singled out for attempting to protect the rights of his clients. His running mate, GOP gubernatorial candidate Dennis Hawver, an Ozawkie attorney, promised to keep Landrith on his ticket for the August 2006 primary.

"None of the disciplinary complaints against Bret were brought by his clients. His clients are 100 percent behind him," Hawver said. "He's looking into areas - events here in Kansas - that people don't want him to look into."


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[BamaLefty]

1. Another Bites The Dust...

[SoCalDem]

2. It's about TIME they are being called on their slander

Repubes say the most outrageous things, and usually get no punishment for it..

[quaoar]

3. Bret Landrith has the honor

of being the first GOP candidate to be certified by a court of law as incompetent.

[BR_Parkway]

6. Lets hope its not the last n/t

[cally]

4. I hope they don't elect them anyways

then I'll really think something wrong with Kansas ;-)

[patrice]

5. More GOP posturing: the potential leader of Landrith's cohort, Hawver, wil

will retire in 2008 if elected and go to sail the South Pacific, leaving Landrith in charge of Kansas, according to your TimesDispatch link - More devious, dishonest, Posturing!

[Javaman]

7. Lionel Huts, attorney at law...

[Midnight Rambler]

8. Illegal baby trafficking?

:wtf:

Well, I guess that's GOP Family Values(TM) for you

[TheWraith]

9. I thought that too at first, but that's not what he's accused of.

If you read more carefully, he was accusing other lawyers of baby trafficking. Probably as part of some fundamentalist religious delusion.

[Midnight Rambler]

14. Ah okay, now I see

n/t

[atommom]

10. His running mate is unlikely to win anyway ... he's the libertarian

candidate, and Repubs usually have more support here. But many of the politicians here seem to have gone batshit-crazy, so who can say? :shrug:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Ca someone point me off...

To more information on Landreth?

[gratuitous]

12. "None of his clients brought bar complaints" -- So?

Geez, these guys will try anything, won't they? On those occasions where a lawyer malpractices, his clients don't usually file a bar complaint; they file a civil complaint for their damages. Bar complaints are filed when there is misconduct detrimental to the profession. The protest that it's not his clients filing the bar complaint is just flat ludicrous. When the Repiggies succeeded in getting Clinton's bar ticket at the Supreme Court pulled, they weren't his clients, either.

Another Republican crybaby.

[Catch22Dem]

13. A candidate for governor who ends sentences w/ prepositions

Fucking lovely. Make that man the next preznit!

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Good grief

This guy sounds like a paranoid lunatic.