Gov. Tom earolf tries going along to get along with GOP leaders. But what’s he getting from Senate Republicans with whom he’s going along? Gov. Wolf isn’t using the bully pulpit of the governor’s office to speak out on issues of right and wrong, and matters of importance for everyday Pennsylvanians. By Bill Keisling […]
Category: Keisling on Pennsylvania Politics
Will Att. Gen. Beemer and Gov. Wolf back the release of Special Prosecutor Gansler’s report on ex parte government sharing of pornography?
AG Beemer: “The issue about ex parte communications (in the Gansler report) is a critical one. I think it strikes at the integrity of the system. Where those kinds of things are in play, that is certainly something that that public should have an opportunity to know about.” Now that Bruce Beemer is in charge […]
Kane trial wrap-up: Was Kathleen Kane’s jury trial rigged?
A series of pre-trial decisions rendered against Kane in the weeks and months leading to the jury verdict helped to seal her fate — long before a jury was ever selected. In Pennsylvania, you are protected when you go along, and you’re endangered when you don’t. by Bill Keisling A show trial, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary […]
Kane Trial Verdict: The night of the long knives
Kathleen Kane remained a Rashomon Rorschach test, a carrier of what you believe she carried, a doer of what you believed she did, a sayer of what you believed she said. by Bill Keisling Defense lawyers and Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele spent nearly four hours on closing arguments in the Kathleen Kane […]
Kane Trial Day 5: AG Kane declines to testify, and rests her defense without presenting witnesses
Since state Treasurer Budd Dwyer’s conviction and tragic death, this type of non-defense at trial hasn’t been used again by state officials facing prosecution, and for good reason by Bill Keisling Almost 30 years ago, in December 1986, Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, on trial in federal court, declined to present a defense at […]
Kane trial extra: Court officials release transcript of FBI wiretap of Kane consultant Josh Morrow
The value of phone tap recordings like this to criminal investigators is that they are unrehearsed, and recorded at the time of an alleged crime. There’s little opportunity for someone like Morrow to rehearse a story, or say he can’t remember what happened. by Bill Keisling Not long after the prosecution and defense rested Friday in […]
Kane Trial Day 4: Consultant says he conspired with AG Kane to leak grand jury material
Political consultant Josh Morrow says he and Attorney General Kathleen Kane cooked up a cover story designed to conceal their involvement in the leak and to make Kane’s former second-in-command, Adrian King, the fall guy by Bill Keisling Philadelphia-based political consultant Josh Morrow testified at trial Thursday that he and Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane conspired […]
Associated Press report on Kane trial is an exhibit of outrageous media bias
As an example of just how ignorant and careless the media is concerning Kathleen Kane’s tribulations as Attorney General, we invite readers to review the following AP article syndicated to newspapers and then compare what NewsLanc columnist Bill Keisling reports concerning happenings on day three of the trial Question for Ms Dale: Where is the rest of the […]
Kane Trial Day 3: Back stabbing, broken trust, and a clown newspaper company
Adrian King says his old friend Kathleen Kane is trying to frame him by Bill Keisling Wednesday, August 10 — To hear former First Deputy Attorney General Adrian King tell it, his boss, Attorney General Kathleen Kane, one day simply and without explanation asked him to deliver a plain manila envelope to a political operative […]
Kane Trial Day 2: Opening statements, two witnesses: Bradbury and Beemer
One begins to surmise that this will be a third-rate trial about a fourth-rate newspaper article Judge Demchick-Alloy already ruled that Kane’s team can not make mention of the porno emails Kane dug up; now it appears the defense is barred from discussing Jerry Sandusky by Bill Keisling Tuesday, August 9 — “‘Revenge! Revenge is […]
Kathleen Kane Trial Day 1: Jury Selection
It’s a show trial, and the old and the new and something blue are on show, not just AG Kathleen Kane. Inside and out of the Montgomery County courthouse there’s a sense that times are changing, whether Pennsylvania government officials like it or not. by Bill Keisling Monday, August 8 — The heat that has […]
WikiLeaks emails: DNC clueless about Pennsylvania
How can a guy locked in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for years know the problems on the ground in Pennsylvania better than do officials at the Democratic National Committee? Type the word “lunch” into the WikiLeaks email search page, and you get 527 hits. by Bill Keisling My car mechanic, Chuck, has problems in life, some of his […]
Different gun laws at Cleveland and Philadelphia conventions: A tale of two cities
Although Pennsylvania law permits open carry of firearms elsewhere in the state, protesters at the Philadelphia Democratic convention can’t openly carry rifles and pistols without a permit, as can protesters in Cleveland. by Bill Keisling Pennsylvania law enforcement officials preparing for next week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia have an advantage over their counterparts at […]
PA in deepest budget and debt mess since 1930s Great Depression
Gov. Tom Wolf and legislature ignore state constitution in budget fight, produce unbalanced budget State lawmakers in 2016 are scraping bare the barrel of money, and law, going all the way back to the New Deal and the Great Depression by Bill Keisling This week Gov. Tom Wolf shocked the state’s political and financial communities […]