Pa. AG Kane's hit on 'Hardball'
Pa. AG Kathleen Kane gets the Chris Matthews treatment on Hardball Tuesday.
Pa. AG Kane's hit on 'Hardball'
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane smiled nervously Tuesday when Chris Matthews mentioned why he'd invited her on MSNBC's "Hardball": "I’m looking at people in public service who I can see a couple notches from now being national figures," Matthews, a Philadelphia native, said.
He added he was not going to ask her if she would like to run for president.
Kane, wisely, resisted the natural temptation to fill the silence that followed with a comment.
In the brief interview, she said she believes Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes should continue to be apportioned on a winner-take-all basis, standing in opposition to a bill sponsored by 13 state Senate Republicans to award 18 of the votes, representing the number of seats Pennsylvania has in the U.S. House proportionally based on the popular vote, with the statewide winner getting two extra votes.
Asked what Pennsylvania voters might accepts in terms of gun control, Kane suggested limits on the size of magazines and universal background checks for gun sales. "In Pennsylvania, we’re hunters, we're fishermen, we're sporstmen - we’re all that kind of thing - but we're also very reasonable and practical," Kane said. "You don’t have a right to go into a classroom and take out a whole clasroom in a matter of seconds."
More background checks do not impinge on the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, Kane said. "If we're going to have (them) on some gun sales, we should have them on all gun sales. What's the difference?"
She touted her action repealing the "Florida loophole," which allowed Pennsylvania residents denied permits to carry handguns to obtain them as non-residents from Florida, and have state authorities here recognize those permits.
Kane, remember, refused to entertain questions from Harrisburg Capitol reporters recently when she rejected a contract Gov. Corbett had reached with a British firm to privatize the state lottery.
[updated] She did, however, take scribes' questions after legislative appropriations hearings for her office last week.
No word on whether Matthews felt a "thrill" going up his leg during the interview, as he famously said happened while watching a speech by then-Sen. Barack Obama during the early 2008 primaries.
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"You don’t have a right to go into a classroom and take out a whole calasroom in a matter of seconds.". All that law school $ paid off. I would have never known this.— not_retired- Since Kane had spelled out exactly why she stopped the lottery contract, what more could writers ask? Would they ask if she had a personal vendetta against Corbett. Give it up.— mike l
- MSNBC = Puppets of the radical left.
— Professor1982 - I have a question for you weirdos. Does the sight of Kathy Kane make you as angry as when you see Michelle Obama?
I know you probably mumble racial epithets when you see Michelle Obama, but what do you mumble about when you see Kathy Kane?
Just curious. Thanks! - Kane's campaign has received massive funding from George Soros. That, in and of itself, is cause for alarm by any American.— Professor1982
- Quit spamming, you ignorant clown.
— wokmaster - Great comment. — 4poppy
- Nice. I'd high give you if I could. — jonline
- But you voted for her taxman...you said so yourself. — Donald Segretti
- Professor 1982: Fascist puppet of the Koch brothers.— carl and sons
- Professor 1982 is not a fascist puppet of the Koch brothers. He is a paid stooge and agent of the Billionaire Brothers Koch, whose father founded and supported the John Birch Society and who now bank roll not only this off message pseudo intellectual echo of The Mercatus Center, many other mindless purveyors of the rotten meat from the corpse capitalism.
- Well, yeah. That too. — carl and sons
- "Mumble Mouth" and Kane...good pair.— dogman5
- Professor1982: Where's your proof that Soros "massively" funded Kane's campaign? Exactly what are the facts and figures? Pennsylvania is fortunate that we have Democrats in the AG,Treasurer,and Auditor General offices to keep power-crazy,egomaniac Gov.Corbett in check.— Cornwall Citizen
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