Abundant ‘hesitancy’

From THE SCRANTON TIMES TRIBUNE:

After Penn State’s board of trustees fired university President Graham Spanier and football coach Joe Paterno, Gov. Tom Corbett belatedly rode his white charger over Mount Nittany and declared: “When it comes to the safety of children, there can be no margin for error, no hesitancy to act.”…

He was attorney general in 2009, when the office took up an investigation of former PSU assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who ultimately was charged Nov. 5 with allegedly sexually abusing eight boys – more than two years after the investigation started.

Mr. Corbett did not move to arrest Mr. Sandusky, despite the evidence that his investigators had collected, as he campaigned for governor. After his election as governor, which also made him a member of the PSU board, he did not inform his colleagues on the board of what he knew…

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EDITOR: Ever so “hesitantly” and on ‘cat’s feet’ the media is slowly getting closer to questioning the role that Governor Tom Corbett, then attorney general of the state, played in the Penn State cover up.

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