[ Running mate: Kerr, however, won't confirm whether Mary Birch is his choice ]

From: The Topeka Capital-Journal | Date: May 29, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Running mate: Kerr, however, won't confirm whether Mary Birch is his choice

By Jim McLean

The Capital-Journal

The president of the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday she is seriously considering an offer to become Dave Kerr's lieutenant-governor running mate.

Mary Birch, 49, who has led the Johnson County community's economic development organization since 1984, said she hasn't made a final decision.

"I've gone from carefully considering it to seriously considering it," she said in a telephone interview Tuesday evening.

Kerr said he planned to name a running mate next week but ...

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