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Article: [ Running mate: Kerr, however, won't confirm whether Mary Birch is his choice ]
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
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- May 29, 2002
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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 declined
to confirm that Birch was his choice.
"At this point, it would be a mistake for me to ...