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But she was Poised.
Dumbass. Moving on…
Resign now and let our new Democratic guv appoint a replacement. Don’t drag us down with you.
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Sloppy article without any background or investigation.What was it all about? Who were the people affected? Who initiated the prosecution? Was anyone harmed by the alleged leak? I used to expect more from the AP.
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Here’s the hat trick of TPM headlines today–One Dem Attorney General, one GOP AG, and one GOP governor investigated for felonies.
I’ll say the same thing about her as I said about Paxton: don’t care what political party you’re from, if you’re an unethical git, you need to be gone.
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<a href=Report: Grand Jury Says Democratic AG Broke Law In Media Leak Case - TPM – Talking Points Memo">TPM, January 8, 2015:
The judge who approved the grand jury investigation into Kane, the special prosecutor who handled the investigation, and the district attorney deciding whether to prosecute Kane are all Republicans.
I’ll just add what I said then:
Ah, well, no political motivation or conflict of interest there.
Seriously, the fact that everyone involved in deciding whether to prosecute Kane is a Republican should have been in the headline and the first paragraph.
That this fact isn’t even mentioned in the current article, much less in the first paragraph, is mind-boggling. These actions are clearly motivated by Kane repeatedly kicking the PA GOP’s corrupt, unethical, asses.
C’mon, TPM, step up the fact-checking and reporting standards.
Edited to Add:
This is clearly GOP payback for Kane’s investigation of former PA governor and AG Tom Corbett’s inept handling of the Sandusky case, and the embarrasing (to the GOP) release of pornographic emails circulated by Corbett’s AG staff.
That release is the so-called “leak” on which these politically motivated charges against Kane are based.
FYI, here’s what Kane’s office had to say about those emails at the time:
“Attorney General Kane believes it is in the public’s best interest to have a good understanding of how its public servants conduct their business,” Martin said, according to the paper. “She also believes transparency on this issue is a very good way to help ensure that the exchanging of sexually explicit materials through internal emails on state-owned equipment, during official work hours, doesn’t happen elsewhere.”
The people here suggesting that the party should dump Kane might want to reconsider their opinion in light of these facts - because I don’t think we want to go around condemning members of our own party for showing everyone what corrupt, sexist, inept, incompetent and contemptible assholes the Republicans really are.
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This is so depressing for Pennsylvania Democrats. Of three statewide elected leaders, two have been indicted, and the third, Governor Wolf, seems only now to be learning that in taking the job he walked into a knife fight. This follows years of corrupt legislators being indicted. (Yes, some of them were Republicans, but I expect, and need better, from our side.) And, to top it off, the party is picking a fight with the likely winner of the Democratic primary for the Senate seat held by Toomey because the guy, Jim Sestak, will not kiss their behinds. This should be a totally Blue state but the avarice and stupidity of the statewide organization is appalling. There is a possibility of a new state chairman soon who would be terrific, but already there is grumbling he is not going to affirm state employees— the most powerful voting block in the state, to whom even the Republicans, to the Tea Party’s consternation— are somewhat beholden— featherbedding, pension hogging ways that are driving the Commonwealth into bankruptcy, and also, incredibly, that he is not a woman, as if there is a woman ready for the job NOW who can turn things around…
Wait…Sestak is running again???
Ohgawdhelpus
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DC Gadfly: This story has been covered pretty well lately, particularly tied into the indictment of the Texas A.G., when it mentioned the Pa. story. It is 6 years old, and so it lingered a long time, but what she is accused of is fairly serious and it did impact the career of a politician running for office. Pettiness is what caused this, but it is serious now. She needs to step aside and allow the new Gov. to appoint someone to allow Pa. citizens to have some confidence in the top defender of the law. Tom Corbett set a lousy example when he was in the same office.
Exactly.
Meh. Live by the sword, die by the sword. I guarantee you the GOP/Teatrolls view her actions against Corbett as politically motivated as well. She was vindicated because she happened to be right. If they turn out to be right and she’s convicted for this, then it would look pretty stupid to have run around yelling about it being political. Even if she only did enough that it’s even an issue and she gave them only enough to go on to bring charges, but she escapes conviction, then she’s still an idiot. It’s not hard not to intentionally leak grand jury evidence or details. I don’t give a fuck how much buttery “government transparency” rhetoric you slather all over it: if the law makes it a crime to reveal the evidence/details, then you keep it confidential. She knew that and knew better.
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If she is guilty, throw her ass out and/or in jail.