PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE COLUMN: …It was a jarringly absurd 24-hour period — moving from Williams’ blistering news conference, to the fawning lawmakers on the appropriations committee, to, the very next morning, arguments before the Supreme Court, where she’s trying to have a grand jury report tossed by arguing a special prosecutor who investigated her was illegally appointed.
It was the GOP-controlled committee hearing that stood in stark contrast. There was one question about how she’s paying her legal bills (the state is not paying, she said) and an oblique comment about her situation that might have been a compliment or might have been sarcastic.
By and large, lawmakers were showering her with praise for battling drug dealers, arresting online predators and taking her innovative “mobile street crime unit” to Pennsylvania cities. It was parochialism, pure and simple. Legislators were concerned about the heroin epidemic in their towns and street violence. On that, they say, Kane is doing a great job… (more)
EDITOR: Perhaps it is because they do not have much confidence in the accusations.
