TOPEKA, Kan. - Kay O'Connor, an outspoken Republican conservative who once said women's suffrage was a sign that society didn't value families enough, is leaving the Kansas Legislature.
O'Connor announced Wednesday that she would resign her Senate seat, probably by the end of October. She acknowledged that her unsuccessful campaign this year for the GOP nomination for secretary of state was a key factor in her decision.
In a letter to supporters, she wrote, "My friends, I am tired."
She briefly became a national figure in 2001, when she described the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote, "a symptom of something I don't approve of." She said women wouldn't need the right if men took care of them adequately.
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