As Kathleen Kane sat in a Montgomery County courthouse awaiting her criminal sentence, the two men seeking to follow her into office spoke at a debate in Harrisburg of their plans to restore integrity to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General in the wake of her tumultuous tenure.
In an hour that touched on issues including consumer protection, gun control, public corruption and the appropriate punishment for Kane herself, Sen. John C. Rafferty Jr., R-Montgomery, and his Democratic opponent, Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro, found little common ground. Even when they did agree—on priest abuse and the email review Kane commissioned, for example—they were often combative, with tensions in the race rising as the Nov. 8 election quickly approaches.
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