Bribery Case against Pennsylvania Democrats Dropped Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane (D) has decided to drop charges against four state legislators caught on tape accepting bribes in exchange for voting against a voter ID bill in 2012. According to the tapes, Rep. Ronald Waters got payments totaling $7,650, Rep. Vanessa Brown $4,000, Rep. Michelle Brownlee $3,500, and Rep. Louise Bishop $1,500. Kane called the investigation “poorly conceived. The notion that these individuals were influenced by the bribes is ludicrous. Every one of the individuals implicated was a Democrat. Democrats would be expected to vote against voter ID no matter whether they were bribed or not. In essence, they were not selling their votes. They were merely bilking the briber by taking money for something they would’ve done anyway. Besides, the amounts were pitifully small. At best, these were petty crimes of opportunity, not major felonies.” A second factor cited by Kane was that “every one of the bribe takers was an African-American Democrat. I felt it would be inappropriate to go forward with a prosecution laden with these racially and politically disparate impacts. If there had been a more balanced mix in terms of race and political Party the case might have been worthy of pursuing. However, I will not be a party to a prosecution that disproportionately impacts one race over another or one Party over another.”
I am all good with "bilking the briber". Every last one of them should be bilked. Doing so is a public service
I am not. Their cases are miniscule compared to Attorney General Kathleen Kane. She should get all 4 of their maximum sentences, plus life, plus, plus
In my book any elected official or even non elected caught taking a bribe should be hung drawn and quartered and there heads placed upon a spike outside of there offices