Reply #11: Yes Election over, no need for this for another 2-4 years [View All]

I expect it to come back up along with some Gun owners protection laws in about two years (for the mid-term election). I first ran across this in the Pennsylvania Governor Election of 1974. The Democratic Governor (Milton Shapp) was running for re-election so the GOP controlled State House started to look into the "Corruption" in his administration. All types of headlines (they even caught a few thieves) but nothing to connect Shapp with the Corruption but kept saying Shapp was the Heart of the Corruption in the state.

As soon as Shapp was re-elected the GOP closed down the investigation. The GOP made a statement that the committee had "finished its job" but they did not even wait till the end of November to close down. It was so political that even I saw it (and I was a teenager at the time). They tried it again four years later and mongered to get a GOP Governor (Thornburg) who "promised" to get rid of the Corruption. We than proceeded not to hear of corruption for eight years. Some how it just disappeared with a GOP Governor.

The GOP did try it again against Casey when he was Governor but it was his fellow Scanton Area resident (and GOP Pennsylvania Attorney General) who was convicted of taking bribes. Given Casey's investigation of Shapp and Thornburg administration (Where Casey did find some corruption, more than the GOP Committee did) it was hard for the GOP to accuse Casey of Corruption. The use of "Corruption" also started to have its drawbacks as far as the GOP was concerned (Given that every time you turn around another Republican was going to Jail). Thus the GOP decided that corruption investigations had gone to far and decided on other sleaze tactics.