Issue Position: Ethics

Issue Position

In the past two years, Pennsylvanians have seen a state treasurer plead guilty to extortion and resign, and a state attorney general charged with perjury and obstruction of justice. Something seems to happen to career politicians when they stay too long in Harrisburg. Instead of rooting out corruption, they look the other way.

Unfortunately, our state senators have to do the right thing. After losing her law license, Attorney General Kathleen Kane should have been removed from office under the state's Constitutional provision that permitted such an action. Even Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf agreed.

But partisanship won over good government, and the incumbent senator joined the group of political insiders who blocked the effort to get the needed two-thirds majority to remove Kane. The consequence is that Pennsylvania now has an attorney general who is not licensed to practice law.

This simply won't do. We need leaders in Harrisburg who will represent our values, not protect their political cronies.

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