Democratic senator takes rare path to criticize GOP colleague; effort denounced

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Democratic senator takes rare path to criticize GOP colleague; effort denounced

As testy as the climate was in the House last week, the Senate had its own eyebrow raising moment when a Democratic senator questioned the ethics of a Republican colleague on the floor. In a chamber where decorum establishes that senators direct their remarks to the senator chairing the proceeding, Democratic state Sen. Patrick Schmidt of Topeka took a rare route to criticize Republican Stephen Owens of Hesston. Schmidt tried unsuccessfully to a…