BNA Money and Politics (subscription required) reported that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) requested the Internal Revenue Service investigate churches in Kansas for possible violation of IRS rules in helping with Attorney General Phill Kline's re-election. Numerous churches distributed campaign literature and videos that favored Kline. According to CREW, a memo written by Kline was released by Kansas news groups that described his plans to get churches involved in his re-election campaign. Kline has denied that he did anything wrong. But a supporter and fellow Republican, former Attorney General Bob Stephan, who was serving as a special assistant to Kline, quit recently because of the attorney general's visit to the Topeka church and his campaign fund-raising activities, according to published reports.