The sleazy Pennsylvania Governor campaign is drawing to a close. It is
awash in lies, misrepresentations and innuendo and it will be a blessing
when it expires. One of the most outrageous hints has been the Corbett-Sandusky connection.
Every talk show has callers suggesting Corbett's connection to a pedophile when he was Attorney General and now as Governor. It was part of Kathleen Kane's Attorney General's campaign and it continued on when she was elected. She initiated a 16 month investigation under special investigator H. Geoffrey Moulton. The governor challenger, Wolf, picked up the tattered banner with the implication that political donations came from Sandusky through his charity, First Mile. This is very reminiscent of the attacks on Romney, vague but ugly with some sticking quality.
But the donations have come from people who were associated with First Mile; they may have been associated with the Anglican Church or the Philadelphia Phillies, too, Moreover, special investigator Mr. Moulton, Jr. released his report this summer which concluded there is "no direct evidence that electoral politics influenced any important decision made in the Sandusky investigation," and that "Attorney General Corbett never made any substantive decisions related to the conduct of the investigation."
No matter. Keep those calls and letters comin'. The political process has no shame. Maybe power doesn't corrupt, maybe it just attracts the corruptible. The only thing worse than elections would be not being allowed to have them.
Every talk show has callers suggesting Corbett's connection to a pedophile when he was Attorney General and now as Governor. It was part of Kathleen Kane's Attorney General's campaign and it continued on when she was elected. She initiated a 16 month investigation under special investigator H. Geoffrey Moulton. The governor challenger, Wolf, picked up the tattered banner with the implication that political donations came from Sandusky through his charity, First Mile. This is very reminiscent of the attacks on Romney, vague but ugly with some sticking quality.
But the donations have come from people who were associated with First Mile; they may have been associated with the Anglican Church or the Philadelphia Phillies, too, Moreover, special investigator Mr. Moulton, Jr. released his report this summer which concluded there is "no direct evidence that electoral politics influenced any important decision made in the Sandusky investigation," and that "Attorney General Corbett never made any substantive decisions related to the conduct of the investigation."
No matter. Keep those calls and letters comin'. The political process has no shame. Maybe power doesn't corrupt, maybe it just attracts the corruptible. The only thing worse than elections would be not being allowed to have them.
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