Here’s a little inside-baseball for you guys. Around here, posts about Jerry Sandusky are box-office poison. They are usually met with silence, so we really don’t like posting about him anymore (we never really wanted to talk about it from the beginning, but news is news). However, today we make an exception because of a press release we received from Dan McCaffery‘s campaign for Pennsylvania Attorney General.

You may have expected McCaffery to run his campaign with class and dignity, but you’d be wrong. We understand that as a candidate for state attorney general, he may be thinking a lot about the Sandusky case, and we don’t want to give him a plea deal either, but to announce it as part of your platform just seems like riding the coattails of a pedophilia case. McCaffery’s press release said:

If elected Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, I will not, under any circumstances, accept a plea agreement in the horrific sexual abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky. As Attorney General, I pledge to the citizens of Pennsylvania that I will prosecute Sandusky to the fullest, as well as all those who knew and either willfully covered it up or did nothing to stop it,” vowed McCaffery. “Sandusky’s victims were robbed of their childhoods, their innocence. I will not allow them to be robbed of justice by even entertaining the thought of a plea agreement.

Never mind the fact that this massively oversimplifies the use and usefulness of plea agreements, this also just grosses us out. McCaffery also promised no plea deal in the ongoing investigation into the Hershey Charity for Disadvantaged Children, saying, “Something smells bad in the Hershey deal and it’s not the chocolate … If I am Attorney General, there will be no sweetheart plea deals for those who are guilty of misappropriating the Hershey charity’s funds.” You know what? Fine. Use these cases as your platform, but at least leave the puns to the professionals.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 1:15 pm.