Friday's DN: Race for AG takes a nasty turn with rape ad
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Friday's DN: Race for AG takes a nasty turn with rape ad
Chris Brennan
The race for state Attorney General takes a nasty turn as a Republican group from Washington, D.C. starts spending more than half a million dollars in the Philadelphia media market to call Democrat Kathleen Kane "soft" of rape cases. Also in Clout this week: The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party says his new poll shows the presidential race is statistically tied here and a former judge now running the Red Cross in Philadelphia says she has been asked to consider running for mayor in 2015.
Will Bunch takes a historical long-view on the "redistribution of wealth."
Here comes a 1st Amendment case: A local blogger who enjoys the attention he get from ticking people off surrenders to police after his is accused of using Facebook to solicit for murder.
And Jason Nark takes a look at the life of a Piney.
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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