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Kobach sought pardon for VP of corporate donor
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| Last Edited | RP Jun 20, 2018 05:36pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Jun 20, 2018 05:35pm |
| Description | Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach unsuccessfully sought a governor’s pardon for a corporate campaign donor’s vice president whose crime, police said, involved threatening a cab driver by putting a gun to his head.
Kobach, a Republican and leading candidate for Kansas governor, approached then-GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s chief counsel about clemency for Kansas City-area resident Ryan Bader in August 2017, state records show. Kobach was Bader’s attorney and initiated the pardon request three years after a state judge expunged the attempted robbery case from Bader’s record.
Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer denied Bader’s pardon request this week, along with 20 other requests. During a news conference Tuesday in Wichita, Colyer said the governor’s pardon power should be used “sparingly and with great restraint.”
Kobach is trying to unseat Colyer in the state’s Aug. 7 primary and could grant the pardon himself if he were elected governor in November. He has made fighting what he calls “the culture of corruption” in state government a central theme of his campaign. |
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