From MorningCall.com:

Now that he’s been elected governor, Republican Tom Corbett faces the same task confronting any incoming chief executive: filling Cabinet slots and making political appointments across state government.

One of them will hit particularly close to home.

Corbett, who has two years left in his current term as Pennsylvania attorney general, has to nominate his replacement to serve out the two years remaining in his term, which expires in 2012.
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That person, if confirmed by a vote in the state Senate, will become the state’s top prosecutor and lawyer and will be responsible for continuing the Bonusgate public corruption probe that began on Corbett’s watch.

Corbett himself was an appointed attorney general in the mid-1990s, when he was tapped to finish the unexpired term of Ernie Preate, who was convicted on federal corruption charges and sent to prison.

Corbett held the position for two years and ran for a full term in 2004 against Democrat Jim Eisenhower. He was re-elected in 2008, defeating Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli.

Corbett’s not naming names for a successor – yet.

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