PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER EDITORIAL: Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s rejection of Gov. Corbett’s attempt to privatize the state lottery risks being seen as a product of the partisan politics that subsume all good sense in Harrisburg.
But the Republican governor’s questionable handling of the matter raised legitimate legal and policy questions long before the state’s first elected Democratic attorney general came to town. Kane has done Pennsylvanians a service by standing in the way of Corbett’s headlong, heedless quest to boost state gambling profits…
Corbett can blame himself for creating the conditions for such a legal and political rebuke. The governor avoided oversight by lawmakers during the months it took him to find and reach a contract with a private operator. And he ended up with a total of one corporate prospect, depriving the process of the benefits of competition… (more)
