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Kansas Senate Republicans oust leader from post amid wrong-way drunk driving charges Jonathan Shorman and Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 10 TOPEKA Kansas Senate Republicans ousted Sen. Gene Suellentrop as majority leader Friday the first major political penalty paid by the Wichita Republican after he was charged with leading police on a drunken wrong-way chase down Interstate 70.
The extraordinary vote by the GOP caucus marked an all-out attempt by senators to separate themselves from Suellentrop, who has become politically toxic amid revelations he allegedly taunted a police officer after his arrest and had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.
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