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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: The Great Pennsylvania Government Porn Caper The Great Pennsylvania Government Porn Caper By David Gambacorta Feb 24, 2016 720 Kathleen Kane was stuck in her not-so-happy place. She preferred to avoid Pennsylvania's capital, the nerve center of its incestuous, dysfunctional political system. It seemed to change people, she thought, throwing their moral compass askew. But here she sat in her Harrisburg office in early 2014, a year into her tenure as the state's attention-grabbing attorney general, feeling the flawlessly arranged bookcases and canary-blue walls closing in. A staffer marched into the office and beelined to Kane's desk, pressed into the corner of the room. Kane's steely blue eyes fell to a disc that was resting in the staffer's hand. "We're putting this on your computer because the information is important," he said bluntly. "But I recommend that you not look at these." Why? Kane thought. It wasn't like the disc contained nuclear codes. All that was on there were old emails that had been sent and received by members of the attorney general's office before Kane occupied it. So of course she opened up the files. She wasn't some wilting flower; she'd seen dead bodies and worked rape cases, and she prided herself on not being treated like the girl in the room. But when she started clicking, she was at first shocked, then repulsed, then a little—just a little—curious. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Kathleen Kane, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Loads of pornography littered the exchanges between government officials like so much cow shit in an open field. Office-secretary porn. Sarah Palin-Photoshopped porn. Hardcore, objects-stuck-in-a-woman's-every-orifice porn. The more she clicked, the worse it got. Fat jokes. Gay jokes. Racist jokes. Domestic-violence jokes.The bulk of which were sent on state computers, on state time, from one state employee to another. The emails on the disc were just the tip of the iceberg; the full scope wasn't immediately clear. In time, Kane and everyone else in the state would come to realize the emails were like strands of a spiderweb, stretching out in every possible direction, connecting small-town attorneys to big-name prosecutors to State Supreme Court Justices. For now there were just the emails. They were an opportunity, a gift; digital dynamite, powerful and potentially destructive. And with them came an unspoken question: How should they be used? DIRTY DEEDS DONE ON STATE TIME The answer was easy: They should be made public. Kane had run for office as a tough-as-nails outsider who wanted to shake up the male-dominated world of Pennsylvania politics. She earned a staggering three million votes in the 2012 general election—more than even President Obama managed to attract in the state that year—and was the first woman and first Democrat to become state attorney general since the position was made an elected office in 1980. Expectations were high. She was also a political newcomer, having never held elected office or been in charge of an operation as large and politically volatile as the attorney general's office. But she flourished from the very beginning, making headlines from coast to coast for refusing to defend the state's ban on same-sex marriages. She was a rising star in the Democratic party. "For about a year there, she really was the darling," says former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, who still wields enormous influence in the state's political circles. "There was talk that she'd run for governor or even president." Kane might have stayed on that path, even thrived, strengthening relationships in the state's old-school, ossified circles of power. But these emails changed everything. Each piece of correspondence shattered her respect for the legal community just a bit more. One photo collection titled "Blonde Banana Split" contained more than 30 images of two women stuffing bananas inside each other's every hole. Another photo of a busty woman wearing a black-and-white veil was subtitled "Nuns: They have tits too." "Some pictures might be close enough to make those taste buds tingle!" read the introduction to another thread, containing close-ups of women's genitals. Poster Comment: I heard that during the Middle Ages, the wells at the Convents had many aborted fetuses in the bottoms of them. Now how could this be? And in a Convent? Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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The Sandusky pedo-ring rolls on and on. KK, I'm glad that they didn't kill you. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
No comment, Bro.
There's lots and lots of pervs in PA, and on higher up the ladder. They had to stop the investigation in PA.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I just read the entire Kathleen Kane article on Esquire's site. It wasn't on my radar while it was ongoing. Now I'm trying to digest it all without a good idea of whether her principled actions were right or wrong. Color me confused. Upon reflection, if she'd looked the other way she'd likely not be in the news.
Why do you think Sandusky got away with it so long in plain sight ??
If she had ignored what was going on, she would have been just as guilty as they were. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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