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It seems Dennis Roddy, former Gov. Tom Corbett’s special assistant, is testing the waters to see if he has what it takes to write the next great American novel.

Here’s a sample from his guest column in last Wednesday’s Times Leader. “Seemingly cornered in a mountain lair, her plot foiled and the robot guards scattered dead across the marble floor, Kathleen Kane is grasping for some lever – anything – with which to blow up the world.”

Intriguing stuff. Our state’s beleaguered attorney general just had her law license suspended, and now she’s planning the apocalypse?

The last time Roddy penned a guest column for this newspaper, he wrote that aspiring world blower-upper Kane did a “hippopotamus stomp across the truth.” That was after he described her appearance at her press conference as “dazzling in martyr’s white,” taking the stage “to offer up the kind of defense Joan of Arc might have launched after dropping acid.”

We get it, Dennis. You’re not a fan of AG Kathleen Kane.

Kane is charged with perjury and other charges for allegedly leaking confidential grand jury information involving a political enemy and then lying about it. And now this raving, raven-haired threat to mankind is being burned at the stake.

Gov. Tom Wolf called for her resignation, and there was talk of impeachment.

Next best thing

Instead, the state Supreme Court did the next best thing. It unanimously voted to temporarily strip the state’s top prosecutor of her law license while she fights the charges against her in our “innocent until proven guilty” justice system. The punishment handed down before her trial begins pretty much handicaps her as she needs a law degree to do her job.

The justices probably would have removed her from her elected office, too, but since the people elected her, they can’t do that.

Harrisburg attorney Walter Cohen, a former attorney general, said that, without a law license, Kane can’t represent the Commonwealth in court. Big deal. For a while there, she was picking and choosing what cases to try anyway.

Referring to the state Supreme Court’s “unprecedented step” of suspending her law license, Roddy said, “that same attorney general found a way to steal the moment by threatening the wholesale dump of a …40-foot-high wall of pornography, misogyny, racism – perhaps some funny cat videos – anything that will humiliate the largest number of people possible.”

Who doesn’t love a funny cat video?

But what he’s really talking about is the flurry of racy, titillating emails that allegedly circulated among computer inboxes of law enforcement officials and possibly a judge or two.

Kane is arguing her political enemies set out to destroy her because she discovered those emails while looking into former Gov. Corbett’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

Oh, that Kathleen. Hell hath no fury like a woman stripped of her law license.

Likewise, Hell hath no fury like the good ole boys’ network being exposed for getting all hot and bothered while viewing pornography on the job.

Slime chain

Kane has maintained her innocence. How dare she! Quoting her, Roddy wrote that she has promised her office will “engage in a comprehensive review of all emails sitting on OAG (Office of Attorney General) servers” to comply with Right to Know requests. She said she will release them at her discretion.

But Roddy wondered aloud when Kane acquired such discretion and asked, “Who else is about to be slimed?”

I think we all want to know that. I mean when Kane acquired discretion.

Some probably also may want to know just how far up this slime chain goes. Roddy pooh-poohed what he called the assembling of “this garbage.” He said it serves no real purpose than to tell us something we already know.

Which is what? That some state officials are pigs? Nooooo. It’s “that people are flawed creations capable of doing things of which they might someday be ashamed.”

You mean like viewing the latest installment of “Debbie Does Dallas” when they should be working?

Roddy said Kane’s threat to release the emails and those who apparently got a kick out of viewing them and sharing them is nothing more than an attempt to punish those she thinks have wronged her – “in this case, the whole world.”

Wow, this woman is clearly paranoid.

And just when you thought Roddy was finished railing about poor Kathleen, he said this: “The Office of Attorney General is occupied by a recklessly vindictive woman unable to distinguish between justice and revenge.”

Might the same thing be said about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court?

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Betty Roccograndi

Zeroing In

Betty Roccograndi is a Wyoming Valley resident and award-winning journalist. Zeroing In appears weekly.