Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane denies interest in running for governor in 2014

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: …“I love my job as attorney general. I think it’s the right time and the right place for me right now to represent the people of Pennsylvania,” Kane said in brief remarks to reporters in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. She was a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.

About seven months into her term, political analysts have speculated whether Kane might join at least a half-dozen Democratic hopefuls to seek their party’s nomination for governor next year. Observers point to her political savvy, fundraising record and high-profile refusal this summer to defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage…

Since her run against Republican David Freed in 2012, Kane has pledged to serve a full four-year term as attorney general. She cast herself Monday not as a Democratic or a woman attorney general but as “your attorney general.” … (more)

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