The five candidates to succeed Kathleen Kane as Pennsylvania’s attorney general focused Tuesday on the need to redirect the office back toward the pursuit of the criminal and civil protection of the state’s residents. At a Philadelphia Bar Association forum, the candidates denounced Kane’s hiring of an out-of-state investigator to review offensive emails exchanged by government officials, insisting that the Office of Attorney General return its attention to serving the public.
Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro, one of three Democrats vying for the party’s nomination, remarked on the “unfulfilled potential” of the OAG under Kane and her predecessors.
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