Cooperation Committee and the Legislative Coordinating Council. He also directed organizing activities of the minority caucus, and streamlined legislative business, and worked across party lines successfully. He resigned in 2008 to accept a gubernatorial appointment as State Treasurer, and was replaced in the Kansas House of Representatives by Pat Maloney of Kingman, Kansas. Kansas State Treasurer On November 18, 2008 Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed McKinney Kansas State Treasurer to replace outgoing Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, who had been elected to Congress representing the 2nd Kansas District. McKinney resigned from his legislative post in order to assume duties as Treasurer on January 5, 2009. While working with essentially the same staff and budget as his predecessor, McKinney managed a "major increase" in the amount of state-held unclaimed property returned to Kansans. With a booth at the Kansas State Fair, McKinney outreached taxpayers to familiarize them with the office role in locating unclaimed property. In 2010, his staff helped about 1,000 Fair attendees to recover $201,397 that was due to them which was being held in trust by the state. He was defeated in 2010 by Republican Ron Estes. Greensburg City Manager (interim) Following the sudden 2010 resignation of Greensburg City Manager Steve Hewitt, who had guided Greensburg through its tornado-disaster recovery, McKinney accepted, for three months, the job of interim City Manager, until a replacement could be found. McKinney's focus was on continuing the massive recovery from one of the nation's worst tornado disasters, which had destroyed the entire town—emphasizing continuing support for Greenburg's nationally noted energy-efficient, environmentally-sensitive "green" renovation. Kansas Historical Foundation board In 2015, at the Kansas Historical Society, McKinney was elected to the Board of Directors of the Kansas Historical Foundation."NW Kansans elected to Kan. Historical Foundation board," November 14, 2015, Hays Post, Hays, Kansas, retrieved February 11, 2017 Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission McKinney was appointed to the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission in March 2011, by Governor Sam Brownback, and was listed, in January 2017, as the Vice Chair of the Commission, which oversees and regulates gambling and animal-racing in Kansas. U.S. House of Representatives candidate District opening & history McKinney announced his candidacy to seek the Democratic party's nomination for in the 2017 special election to fill the vacancy left by the departure of new CIA Director Mike Pompeo. The seat, in a strongly Republican district, had not been won by a Democrat since popular moderate