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Barone decides not to seek re-election Barone’s clashes with party leadership also resulted in his demotion in 2006 from ranking member of the budget committee to the Elections and Local Government Committee.
Barone has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission in an effort to find out why he failed a routine background check last fall. Barone has said he has been in the dark about what caused him to fail the check in October, when the commission was reviewing his license-renewal application for his post as president of The Racing Association of Kansas Southeast, the license holder for the dog-racing track in Frontenac. Barone had served on the TRAK Southeast board for more than a decade, and passed background checks in 1995 and 2000. Two men, both Republicans, are currently running to replace Barone in the 13th District. They are Jacob LaTurner, of Pittsburg, and Bob Marshall, of Fort Scott. The filing deadline is Tuesday. Andy Ostmeyer is the metro editor for The Joplin Globe. ‘Trousergate’ Some of Sen. Jim Barone’s colleagues in the Senate in February wanted to strip him of a leadership position within the party. The motion came after Barone allegedly was caught leaving a retreat for Democrats with sensitive polling data stuffed down the back of his pants. The incident was referred to in Topeka as “trousergate.” “This incident is beyond the pale, in my opinion, because the instructions for everybody were the poll wasn’t to leave the room,” Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said at the time. Barone said the effort to dismiss him was political. “This is just part of the continuing rhetoric to discredit me and my work up there (in Topeka),” Barone said at the time. “There is obviously, and has been for some time, an agenda to diminish my perceived effectiveness.” 
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