By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Kellie Warren believes her policy experience and conservativism make her the ideal candidate to be the next attorney general in Kansas.
Warren, of Leawood, is one of three Republicans who have filed to run for attorney general in Kansas. Warren currently represents District 11 in Johnson County in the Kansas Senate. The other two Republicans are Kris Kobach and Tony Mattivi. Chris Mann is the lone Democrat who has filed for the position.
Warren was campaigning in Salina earlier this week and stopped by the Salina Post office to talk about her candidacy.
"I tell you who I am. I'm honest about it and then I go be that in elected office. And I have the policy experience. I've had to vote on all policy as a state elected official for four years, whether it's energy, education, taxes, commerce, law and order. And Kansans then can look at the record of policy leading that I have," Warren said.
Should she be elected in November, Warren said she would probably do two things first: set up her team in the attorney general's office and create a new division in the office to look at federal overreach.
"I would probably create a new division, whether it's called 'federal overreach' or the 10th Amendment to make sure that we're looking at federalism essentially. That we don't have the government overreaching from Washington, D.C., what we're doing here in Kansas, and so either create a task force, maybe, or a new division," she said.
Warren said that Kansas Republicans need to make sure they select the right nominee to vie for the attorney general position in the November general election.
"We can't select a conservative Republican who doesn't win, and we can't select a person who tells us they're a conservative Republican but doesn't have a record, so how do we know?" Warren said. "With me, you have the record you can depend on of a battle-tested conservative who fights and wins. I win tough elections. I win policy battles that you care about. And I win in the courtroom as well. That's what we need in our next attorney general."