Um, wow. When this story went public we figured it would entail one little dalliance on Kansas Democrat A.G. Paul Morrison’s part. After reading the exhaustive article written by the Topeka Capital Journal, we find that Paul Morrison’s personal, political, and professional world is about to come crashing down in a very public manner. A married politician can recover from a one night stand made public – but a married politician can’t recover from a 2 year affair that was the equivalent of a shadow life – including liaisons in public buildings, liaisons on taxpayer funded trips to places like New York city, pledges to leave and divorce his wife, engagement rings, tattoos, talk of having children and setting up housekeeping in a new apartment. Forget anything you ever read about any Democrat or Republican candidate for President in the last 15 years – this stuff ALONE trumps all of that.

Sadly for Mr. Morrison, it gets worse – much worse. It is alleged that Attorney General Paul Morrison attempted to leverage his relationship with his former employee to extract information about an ongoing investigation – that is it is claimed that the attorney general tried to interfere, potentially, with an ongoing criminal investigation – not just once, but numerous times. Further, it appears he tried to use his personal influence over this woman to exact some additional political payback on Johnson County Republican D.A. Phill Kline.

Morrison’s indignant denials claiming that political opponents and Phill Kline himself are somewhere behind the curtain making all of this up could not ring any more hollow. You really have to feel for the folks who work for him at the Office of Attorney General – they’re forced to play the “my political enemies are out to destroy me” card – even though it’s been Morrison’s own behavior that has done him in. You’ve got to remember – it was Paul Morrison who adamantly denied during the 2006 campaign having sexually harassed another employee of his – and now the details as presented here show Morrison actively pursuing, he wouldn’t take no for an answer, another employee of his – except this time the target of his attention and advances gave in.

If you take just the relationship between Paul Morrision and this woman, and all of the details that have been made public, his career is over. And it should be – this guy needs to get some treatment and counseling to attempt to repair the damage that’s he done to his family, friends, and colleagues.

The next card for Morrison to play is the “I have a problem” card – he can pick whichever one he wants to cover his exit from public life as artfully as possible. Because the truth is, America (and this is going to be a national story – TV, newspapers, news magazines) has never seen something like this in a long, long time – if ever.

Anybody think this will make a good Lifetime made for TV movie?
From The Capital-Journal:

Attorney General Paul Morrison faces a sexual harassment claim tied to an extramarital affair he had with a subordinate in the Johnson County district attorney’s office that continued after he became the state’s top prosecutor this year.

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Carter said in a signed statement that Morrison pressured her to make use of her position in the D.A.’s office to influence pending litigation involving Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline.

Morrison confirmed Saturday that he engaged in a romantic relationship with Carter.

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