PA Gov. Rocked By News Of Ex-Staffers' Hardcore Porn Email Trove

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

By AHIZA GARCIA Published SEPTEMBER 26, 2014, 2:55 PM EDT

Pennsylvania's Democratic attorney general made a seriously NSFW accusation on Thursday about some staffers who worked for Gov. Tom Corbett (R).

Attorney General Kathleen Kane reportedly gave local journalists a look at a series of sexually explicit emails, videos and photos that she said were circulated on state computers by staffers who worked for Corbett during his time as the state's attorney general.

Among the content, according to the Philadelphia Daily News, was a video of a woman masturbating with a lit cigar. Another video reportedly showed a man dressed as a race-car driver uncorking a bottle of champagne and inserting it into a woman's vagina.

Some of those who allegedly sent and received the content, according to the newspaper, have gone on to high-ranking jobs in Corbett's gubernatorial administration, including the state's police commissioner and its secretary of environmental protection.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-corbett-staffers-sexual-emails

[No Vested Interest]

1. Tawdry stuff. nt

[billhicks76]

17. True Detective

Thats whats realign going on in Penn. Jerry Sandusky was just the tip of the iceberg in that elite community. He was part of a ring. Its more like BBC's Conspiracy Of Silence or The Franklin Cover-Up than just porn on computers.

[billhicks76]

18. Ray Gricar RIP

There is reason Corbett torpedoed the investigation into the disappearance and death of DA Gricar who was investigating Sandusky. Can you imagine? When a DA or cop disappears and their car found in the lake with the hard drives ripped out of their computer people mobilize...fast and hard. He was covering something up.

[CanonRay]

2. Sexually repressed Republicans

so what else is new. They're focused on sex 24/7.

[Malraiders]

3. The only better news would be if it is the GAY porn. LOL n/t

[No Vested Interest]

11. Why do you say that?

Serious question.

[obxhead]

12. Jumping in

Because Republicans are generally sex phobic and triple homophobic, so gay porn ends up being a tenfold wammy.

[glowing]

13. I would assume due to Republicans tendency to make laws against LGBT persons... Just blatant

hypocrisy from the Elephants in the room. Personally, I don't really care what people want to view (as long as it isn't child porn or bestiality types of porn where there are clear victims involved in the making of the videos). If I was a Penn resident, I would care if these people were passing around porn on the taxpayers dime and maybe their propensity to pass around porn to co-workers..

[gopiscrap]

4. typical republicans

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. The joys of e-discovery

The firm I work for is involved in some litigation and the document review has been generally disgusting. Except in our situation it was for the most part several women sending the really dirty stuff around. I did not know there was mormon inspired gay porn... now I do. I also wouldn't have thought a woman would send pictures of her fresh boob job, bloody and scarred to her work colleagues.

We always find stuff that is spectacularly inappropriate, but some companies are worse than others.

[Ash_F]

23. Some people get really creative with the fetishes. /nt

[NMBob]

6. sexually explicit emails, videos and photos

"Attorney General Kathleen Kane reportedly gave local journalists a look at a series of sexually explicit emails, videos and photos that she said were circulated on state computers by staffers who worked for Corbett during his time as the state's attorney general. "

Can they really be that stupid? Perhaps they think they work for the IRS.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. ...or the NSA

[NMDemDist2]

16. Welcome to DU neighbor!!!

[Mr.Bill]

8. Sometimes I wish our gubernatorial election

in California was this exciting.

[Divernan]

9. Corbett runs a very loose ship; god knows what crap has gone on in the governor's office.

This is X rated material.

The emails were recovered from the inboxes of eight Corbett deputies, including five who went on to high-profile public jobs when he became governor.

That includes State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan, Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Chris Abruzzo, former Secretary of Legislative Affairs Chris Carusone, former Press Secretary Kevin Harley, who is now an adviser to Corbett's re-election campaign, and Glenn Parno, who oversees oil and gas regulation for DEP.

Another person who seemed quite active in the exchange of emails was Randy Feathers, a former top aide appointed by Corbett in 2012 to serve on the state Board of Probation and Parole.

Kane's staff broke down the explicit email traffic this way:
* Feathers received 436 and sent 40 of them.
* Abruzzo received 46 and sent eight.
* Carusone received 52 and sent three.
* Noonan received 338 but sent none.
* Parno received 178 and sent 10.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20140926_AG_Kane_reveals_X-rated_emails.html#FkuMEaPgoeTUzeUh.99


No surprise that high level DEP good ole' boys get along so well with the Texas Big Frackers. Corbett really ran a loose ship when he was Attorney General. With perverts like that at top levels, no wonder they let the Sandusky investigation die on the vine. Wonder what crap is going on in the Governor's office under his "leadership".

[Iliyah]

10. Don't forget the sex toys - lol

I briefly read an article posted on political wire from I believe The Heritage Foundation talking about Liberals.. . ahem, basically they are sex fiends and not intelligent. I kid you not.

[fredamae]

14. Didn't I also

read somewhere about Guv Brownback having to auction off sex toys to make ends meet in "Koch Kountry" KS..?

[czarjak]

15. Family value party pervs?

No way.

[malthaussen]

19. What an image...

Kane idly going through the AG files on her computer... "Gee, I wonder what this file is."

Hope she wasn't drinking coffee at the time.

-- Mal

[RobinA]

20. PA Employee

and taxpayer here. To put it bluntly, Who the h*ll cares? Howsa about we worry about the real problems in this state. Like the ones that actually affect people?

[DonViejo]

21. If they're emailing and viewing porn...

they aren't dealing with those real problems. The ones that actually affect people.

[Orsino]

22. Distribution of explicit materials might overlap with a sexist workplace.

We already know it overlaps with a sexist political agenda, in this case.

[Ash_F]

24. My experience with getting bureaucrats to do their jobs, as an organizer and victims advocate

has uniformly led me to excuses of "we can't do this", "we are overworked", "it is too complicated to implement"





But they have time to share porn on our dime!