KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder criticized some University of Missouri student protesters as "pampered" and the faculty who are backing them as "tenured radicals."

Kinder discussed the racial discord at the Columbia campus Saturday during a forum for Republican gubernatorial candidates in the Kansas City suburb of Parkville.

Kinder, a Cape Girardeau native, said, "Enough is enough is enough of the slander by the tenured radicals in Columbia and those who support them."

Also participating in the forum were House Speaker Catherine Hanaway and St. Louis businessman John Brunner.