SCRANTON TIMES-LEADER: Kathleen Kane’s campaign for attorney general was based largely on the differences between her priorities and those of the “boys in Harrisburg.” Ms. Kane is the first woman and the first Democrat to be elected state attorney general, but the differences she stressed have to do with much more than gender and party.
The attorney general-elect will have an early opportunity to demonstrate what she meant.
Consumer Advocate Irwin “Sonny” Popowski, 61, who was appointed by former Attorney General Ernest D. Preate Jr. in 1990, recently retired after 22 years in that position and 33 years in the office. Ms. Kane, then, will have the opportunity to name his replacement… (more)
EDITOR: This may be a case where the Times-Leader would have done better to ‘allowing sleeping dogs to lie’. The current AG might make this appointment prior to Kane taking office.
