Kathleen Kane survives…for now.
The State Senate voted today on whether to remove the Attorney General from her position.
According to Article VI Section 7 of the PA Constitution two-thirds approval of the upper chamber was necessary. The ultimate decision would then rest with Governor Wolf, who has already said he would remove Kane under those circumstances.
The vote was 29 to 19 against Kane, four short of the two-thirds required.
It was nearly along party lines, with Democrat Sen. Rob Teplitz voting against Kane and Republican Sen. Stewart Greenleaf voted for her.
GOP Sen. Chuck McIlhinney missed the roll call.
The Senate retained the right to consider the question again and the State House is still looking into impeachment proceedings at this time.
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Frank Fina’s
Can’t imagine having less trust in an institution than I do the PA Supreme Court and its offshoots (Judicial Ethics/Conduct Board and Disciplinary Board).
These are fat rich white guys who like to hold others “accountable” but have no problem lying,cheating and committing crimes to avoid taking responsibility themselves.
Superior Court just found that Frank Dina’s conduct in the Penn State case was “highly improper.” He purposely lied to a Judge. Shen does his license get suspended?
PoliticsPA should create a:
PA Senate __________ Fails
News template and just fill in the blanks with whatever they are working on.
Judicial ethics board seems intent on creating a new “violation” by Kane, but nobody is buying this subpoena gimmick. Remember this group is headed by Chief Counsel Graci, former Eakin election committee chief counsel. Graci is an ethical disgrace who should be investigated and disbarred.
David – it is impossible to reason with a mental patient. The clown below probably can’t even make a good cup of TEA. His nurses make his Jello for him.
“Pyrrhic [partisan] Victory”
What is gaming theory, Stupid?
Her criminal trial is set for August, so what the hell is the point of Republicans trying to remove her now? If you try to remove her, and she is acquitted, you have just snatched defeat from the jaws from victory. If you do not try to remove her, and she is found guilty, problem solved. Do jackasses like Scarnati, Turzai and Gleason even know what Gaming Theory is? How about just common sense?
She is after all the duly elected Attorney General. What gives a bunch of do nothing Senators the right to remove her anyway? Heck, they can’t even pss last years budget, but they can find the time to take a vote to remove her. What a bunch of small minded twerps we have running things in this state!
Remember, this is all fallout from Corbett’s failure to investigate Jerry Sandusky and Joe Paterno adequately and press charges despite a mountain of evidence in order to preserve “Happy Valleys” money machine and the storied Penn State football program and keep those lumni dollars flowing. It was all part of the Penn State mystique. What a bunch of Phoney-ram-a hypocrites we have running the show! Supreme court Justices sending and receiving pornography on state computers, Corbetts’ attorney generals’ office exchanging porn on state computers – boy oh, boy, we sure have some sick units, ensconced in state government. The are looking for a sucker to pin it on – Kane isn’t the one – They have no one to blame but themselves.
It’s too bad, it’s come to this. Time to move on.
Can any of you imagine how much all the Kane haters would be touting their powers of prediction if the Senate had voted against Kane?
They’ve been wearing out their keyboards writing new obituaries every time there is a story about her. Now they have to wait for news from the GOP controlled house of bunglers to…
consider having a meeting… to consider setting up a committee .. to consider an impeachment.
Then consider another meeting .. to consider a date to vote on whether to have an impeachment.
Then consider another meeting for the committee to consider a date to start depositions and conducting an impeachment..
Then to actually set a date for the trial..
Then to actually start the trial..
Then to actually finish the trial and have an vote
Each step along the way, with picks of who will be on the committee, who will prosecute the case for the house, each witness, etc. will generate ANOTHER premature obituary from the clowns here.
Then, when this all fails (because they can’t get their sh*t together), it will be August (and still no budget). Then a new round of premature obituaries will be posted.
hah, i aint know whut you meen bout what u says about me, i aint no fake, i use my reel name allof the times hear and i aint never says nuthin bout ehtnics , i is of mexikan descent too,
Ummm … Mr “Elections” – don’t you worry about what Kane says “in front of a camera.” Her record will speak for itself. As will her courage standing up to racist, woman-hating bullies who would stop at nothing to cover-up their own wrongdoing.
When will Seth Williams go “in front of a camera” to answer some questions? There are PLENTY !!
HaHaHa-
That’s a good point.
rsklaroff was predicting Kane would get ousted by the Senate (and Wolf) and that I would somehow (magically?) owe him an apology and retraction of my consistent defense of Kane. Well, since I didn’t accept his premise on what I “owed” him, I can’t really demand an apology.
But, HaHaHa, you and the other posters probably are owed an apology for having to put up with him.
Elections around the corner-
Interesting take on possible AG debates.
There is an AG debate Saturday the 20th at the PA Progressive Summit. Petitions will be in by then, so we’ll know if Kane has made the ballot (baring petition challenges). She should show up for that debate, or appear before and mingle with attendees, and skip the debate. Kane needs to show up at events with people that support her. The Dem women I run into at events are pretty solidly behind Kane because they believe she was treated unfairly and singled out for being a woman. So, the charges are meaningless to them when justice is applied evenly and politically.
All the earlier phony comments of the dip-shit RETARD troll have all been deleted. Now that FOXtard is back as “Chris Martinez” — the insulting minority “character” created by a typical POS Repervlican.
Had the pathetic pervert pig Majority in the Senate prevailed, I would have typed: “Pyrrhic [partisan] Victory”
LOL … No I wouldn’t have. Sklaroff is a mental patient who has now been wrong 107 straight times.
Hey mental patient: are you going to “apologize”?? And will you do do “forthwith” ???
This will be decided by the voters in the upcoming elections.
Don’t expect Kane to debate any of the other AG candidates on television. Her lawyers won’t permit that, as Kane would be asked
by reporters some very direct questions pertaining to grand jury leaks, perjury, as well as the firing of AG employees who testified in front of a grand jury.
Kane would also be asked questions about her twin sister sending offensive emails…..along with the fact the tax payers are picking up the tab on Kane’s legal defense in the civil cases.
None of this is anything she would want to discuss in front of a camera, with follow up questions from reporters and other candidates.
AP has picked up the Penn State story (still not being reported here):
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/85d68be784fe44538233940d1cc93979/some-charges-against-penn-state-ex-administrators-thrown
The Penn State 3 were the last group of people that Frank Fina tried to rail-road.
rsklaroff-
1) It was a partisan defeat of the GOP’s attempts to railroad Kane without a triai.
2) The article is actually a day old, despite the 2/10 date, it was really written before and only published on the 10th.
Irony:
“Kane faces a much more immediate headache: The GOP-controlled state Senate is prepared to vote Wednesday on whether the Democrat should be removed from office.”
LOL. Headache averted.
3) “Eakin’s lawyer, William C. Costopolous, said he did not believe any additional emails would surface as a result of the subpoena. But he said the subpoena was a logical move by the court to make sure that after it resolves the case, Kane could not suddenly say, “I have some more.”
Translation: fishing expedition
4) Did Kane’s office feel they had already turned over all the emails, so the order seemed redundant and got lost in the shuffle? Probably. Did one of Kane’s underlings who wants her job bungle it? Likely. Does anyone give a f*ck? Not really.
5) Bottom line: The GOP can’t even pass gas without a bribe from the gas industry.
Reality is truly harsh:
AG Kane is not “done.” She isn’t going to “go away.” And she will continue to destroy the corrupt perverts on her path.
And her message to you pussies continues to be: GO FUCK YOURSELF … lol
Good luck, creeps!! You are going to need it.
kaitleen kain is done grate job as genrul aturney and aint never gonna be forcd to leeve her job cuz she doing write things in her job and she gonna win a nuther term dis year,
Judicial ethics board: Kane failed to comply with Eakin email subpoena
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160210_Judicial_ethics_board__Kane_ignored_subpoena_for_Eakin_s_emails.html#fEpz3vxhPM1iv4tz.99
Pyrrhic [partisan] Victory
Well…well…well…looks like everyone loves “details”. Don’t we all? 🙂
BTW, I notices that PoliticsPA has about three pictures of Kane.
They have an unattractive one from a press conference for when the story has bad news:
“BREAKING: Supreme Court Rejects Kane’s Request”
A “medium” one of her siting a conference table for news with no outcome:
“Senate to Vote on Kane Removal Tomorrow”
And a dynamite picture when she wins:
“BREAKING: Senate Attempt to Remove Kane Fails”
(This story)
PoliticsPA should just contact Kane for a new set of head-shots, geared for each type of news.
She might want to include a picture popping a champagne bottle and some balloons and streamers in the background for really good news. (Eakin removed. Fina remove. Montco case won or dropped. Winning primary. etc.)
… for me
Demzocrats wills make sure Teplitz is not re-ellekted.
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh WAH Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
HaHaHa gets away with posting whatever he wants!!! // Stomps feet //
WAH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
LOL. Now the RETARD is pretending to be me!!! I did not post at 5:31 pm.
DD – It sure is !!!
I am looking forward to these trials. After all – Kane will have a chance to defend herself. You know she has one of the best attorneys in the country on her legal team.
They scurried and scurried … but in the end – NO DICE. The Special Prosecutor will continue his work and the orange jump-suits will soon be worn; this time the people wearing them will be the corrupt prosecutors and other Corbett Pervs who have gotten away with unethical behavior for way too long. They are pathetic excuses for law enforcement officers. And they are being EXPOSED left and right.
This means that AG Kane will be in office for a while … enough time for the Special Prosecutor to do it’s work and investigate whether any crimes were committed by Fina & The Corbett Pervs.
Since Kan’s trial won;t happen for a while, I will take the popcorn I ordered and have it during the Eakin trial. Word is he is going scorched-Earth in bios defense. He will not be the only fat, white male to go down in this mess!!! Just ask him … or his wife … who is representing him.
Anyone looking into the leaks from the Kane grand jury? Anyone??
This is a big old f*ck off to those trying to overturn an election before there has been a trial verdict.
Thank you, mr. mental patient. 5:06PM and 5:15PM were not me.
Now what say you on the MAJOR vote today?
I can’t keep all my screen names straight.
HaHaHa
HaHaHa HaHaHa HaHaHa
HaHaHa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* somebody help me *
I am licking my wounds here folks. Give me some time and I will try to come up with something sensible. First I need to wipe the Cruz-juice off my chin …. OK … Where were we? Kane’s sister. Did I mention her sister? How about Kane’s divorce??? Damn … I’m running on empty here. I know!! I’ll just type HaHaHa a bunch of times!!!!
I just love pretending to be HaHaHa. I get all tingly when I type HaHaHa. I should just admit it — I m in LOVE with HaHaHa !!!!
Uh oh.
Impeachment requires a trial.
Corrupt, racist, pervert pig, woman-hating creeps don’t want a trial. Which is why they tried their end-around on the Constitution that just ended in an EPIC REPERVLICAN FAIL.
ROFL. I pray for impeachment to go forward. Hopefully, they are dumb enough to do it before Kane’s trial on the trumped-up charges in MontCo.
A couple Democrat Senators will go down in the April primary or the November general because of their vote today. Right Senator Sab. Welcome to the Senate Mr. Boyle.
Hey Retard Troll (commenting now as “Chris Martinez”) — nothing of substance to say??? LOL @ you and your FOXrtard buddies. One naive Scranton prosecutor wins the AG election in a landslide and is now taking down a whole network of corrupt fat-faced scum-bag pigs.
The only way to “get rid” of her now is to give her a TRIAL.
EPIC REPERVLICAN FAIL
r slarof aint no metal patent he jest says he how feelz abut stuf gone on in harasberg,
I hate myself for what I’m about to do. Yet I feel compelled to do it. Rsklaroff? Rsklaroff?
Anything?
Crickets.
Someone better drop by on mental patient sklaroff and make sure he hasn’t OD’d on Jello or TEA.
The Senate realized that they were going to be exposed. The “exploration” is just an attempt to keep the Press clippings looking bad for Kane. But none of it is working anymore.
The gig is up. The perverts, racists and woman-haters have been exposed.
They better get fitted for their orange jump-suits.
The House gave the cowards in the Senate an excuse to punt, by voting today to “explore” impeachment. Whenever a Harrisburg politician has a chance to duck a difficult vote, you can bet they will.
And the House won’t act until after her August trial. Too risky… wouldn’t want to piss off the Wimmin voters before re-election starts.
Pat – Don’t forget that it isn’t just racist e-mails. There were e-mails suggesting that women in the workplace need to perform oral sex on their male bosses to advance their careers. E-mails suggesting that a woman’s place is in the home.
And we now know that Fina’s misconduct was not just with e-mails. The Superior Court just found that his behavior on another high profile case (where there were tons of leaks) was “highly improper.”
This same Frank Fina is the person who negotiated a sweet pleas deal with Bob Levant – the lawyer for con-man, Tyron Ali. In that deal, Fina dropped all the charges against Ali and let him keep the $400,000.00 he stole from PA taxpayers.
Now, Fina is suing the State of PA for more taxpayer $$$. Guess who one of his lawyers is? Yep – Bob Levant.
And guess who was just hired by Seth Williams (Fina’s new best buddy) to a high-paying government job for which she is not qualified? Bob Levant’s wife.
Levant and his wife stand to gain from Fina’s $$$-driven lawsuit against the AG’s Office. And she was on TV and in the papers getting paid by Philly taxpayers to talk negatively about the AG. Convenient!!
Teplitz. What a tool.
The “Bravo” is for having the guts to stand up top these corrupt perverts and woman-hating racists. The ayyy-holes behind this smear campaign do more damage in PA than one naive AG can do.
People who think it’s OK to send e-mails like this from their State computers (people like Frank Fina) are the ones behind the trumped-up charges against Kane:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zadock1/3580634808
They knew that Kane had discovered their e-mails. They have been trying to discredit her ever since. From illegally leaking information to mis-using grand juries. these creeps have tried every trick in the book. Most in Kane’s situation would have resigned. She stood up to them. And now they are being dragged into the light of day. Good for her.
Hey Pat- You get a bit carried away with “Bravo Kathleen”. This AG has made many many missteps. Still, I agree with most posters who correctly note how corrupt and unfair this process has been -exposing the corruption that exists in this commonwealth- even worse than Kane’s miscues. Voters decide elections and juries decide guilt or innocence. The Republican Jerks in the State Senate should spend more time standing up to Wolf (tax me if you can) and stay out of matters they have no role to play until and unless she is convicted of something.
The citizens of PA have finally figured this out. Kane is actually succeeding in standing up to the corrupt power-brokers who have been trying to smear her and trying to oust her for years now.
The Repervlican Senate set this up for one purpose. But the people made themselves heard. “Not so fast,” they said. And they are smart. Smart not to trust the trumped-up charges manufactured by the likes of Ron Castille and Frank Fina. Smart to force these creeps to actually have to prove something before overturning Kane’s landslide election win.
The Playbook isn’t working this time. The bullies are losing. Bravo, Kathleen. Bravo!
Now let the Senate return to work and pass a budget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mental patient sklaroff …. oh, sklaroff ….. where are you?!?
“… for now”
LMAO. Come on, Nick. Don’t be such a shill.
This process was a long, concerted effort to overturn an election and sweep Hate-gate under the rug. It failed.
There is no “for now.” It’s over. And Kane continues to say to the sniveling hacks:
PROVE IT AT A TRIAL OR SHUT THE FUCK UP !!!!