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There’s hardly a more somnolent (and leave us not forget, overpaid) legislature than Pennsylvania’s. Whether the issue is a state budget, property-tax relief, liquor-sales privatization, pension reform or a natural gas severance tax, our general assembly is perpetually locked in “park,” unwilling to implement change for the public good if it means lessening its power, going against the party line, or upsetting one of the special interests that actually run the state.
The seemingly never-ending legal and political train wreck otherwise known as Attorney-General Kathleen Kane fits the general assembly’s MO. The Republican-controlled decided on Monday to actually “Do Something,” and vote on whether to tell Gov. Tom Wolf to remove the embattled Kane from office. All very neat and tidy, since both Kane and Wolf are Democrats. Senate Democrats of course protested such a vote, but to no avail. Again, no thought given to the integrity of process or restoring confidence in government. It’s simply another case of trying to you-know-what the opposition.
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