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This is an open letter to Kathleen Kane, a former PA State Attorney General whose career, in my opinion, was destroyed by the “Old Boys Network” in the Pennsylvania State Capitol. The “Old Boys Network,” I believe, is largely made up of white men, 99% Republican, from upstate Pennsylvania. I’m writing this open letter because it is my hope–and prayer that somehow, this letter/column will find its way to Kathleen, even while she is still in drug and alcohol recovery .
Do not forget who you are Katheen. You’re Kathleen Granahan Kane, and you come from good people. You are a good person who got caught up in a nasty situation, with some political foes who didn’t mind decapitating you, so-to-speak, by killing your career. They want to make sure you never get to serve as an elected official in Pennsylvania or anywhere else again. I say, Kathleen, remember who you are. Do not allow the “old boys network” define you or determine what the rest of your life will be like.
You might be wondering to yourself–well, who are you, Thera Martin, and how can you tell me how to feel or what to think? I’ve never been an elected official, nor have I ever been an attorney. However, I do know what it is to have people lie on me, and because of those lies, to suddenly be in a position where I lost a very good position at one point in my life. I know what it is, to go from a seventy thousand dollar a year salary to zero and have to start all over again. I thank God for organizations such as Allegheny West Foundation, the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Community Foundation and the Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity for lifting me up, when I was knocked down. I thank God for my Pastor Henry Busby and first lady Deborah Busby, from my home church, Solid Rock Baptist Church in South Philadelphia–for praying for me, for offering me wise counsel, and for being my friend.
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