This is not what Gov. Tom Corbett needed right now.
The incumbent took great umbrage at Wednesday's debate when Democratic challenger Tom Wolf suggested that the current controversy du jour in Harrisburg swirling around porographic emails was indicative of a lack of leadership at the top.
Several people who worked in Corbett's offices when he was attorney general have been implicated as either receiving of forwarding the salacious emails.
Corbett is now calling on Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who discovered the trove of porn emails during her investigation of the way Corbett's office handled the Jerry Sandusky probe, to make all the emails public.
Yesterday, the flap cost a couple of people their jobs. You can read the details here.
Christopher Abruzzo, head of the state Department of Environmental Protection, offered his resignation. A couple of hours later, Glenn Parno, who is deputy chief counsel for DEP, also offered his letter of resignation.
They likely will not be the last.
In the meantime, Corbett's re-election bid continues to be on the rocks.
The governor has maintained that he was not aware at the time that the emails existed and that he certainly does not approve of such conduct, in particular when it comes to doing so on computers paid for by the taxpayers.
You don't have to work in government to know that lesson. It's the norm in most office atmospheres. It's why one of the most popular acronynms online is NSFW. That stands for Not Safe For Work. Unless you happen to work in state government.
But there is something more going on here.
That this would go on in the office of the state attorney general says something about the people working there, and in fact that atmosphere that circulates in Harrisburg.
We talk about it today on our editorial page.
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