SCRANTON -- While some people in her hometown of Scranton are praising Kathleen Kane for deciding not to run for reelection, others say she should go a step further and step down right now.
We talked to people right after her announcement.
"This was not an easy decision, but the decision today I am comfortable with and I will sleep well with," Kane said at a news conference Tuesday.
It was an announcement from a woman who was once the Democratic Party's rising star in Pennsylvania. Now she will not even seek a second term as state attorney general.
Scranton native Kathleen Kane didn't cite her legal troubles as a reason, but people we talk with say because of them she made the right choice.
"I think it's a good idea because I think she'd be in a big heap of trouble," said Charles Pompey of Nicholson. "All she's got going against her, I don't think she'd ever make it again.
We went 100 yards away from her announcement in Scranton to ask people what they thought at the Mall at Steamtown.
"I don't think she can run. She doesn't have a law license. They took it away so how can she run?" asked Gerri Mickelski of Pittston.
"I think it's a good thing because it would have been so messy and nasty," said Margaret Rempe of Dunmore.
Kane has blamed her legal issues on enemies fighting back at her attempt to battle what she calls the "good old boys" network in Harrisburg to fight corruption.
There are supporters who agree.
"I think it's been a terrible thing and it's not right what they did to her," said Mickelski. "I think what happened to her is wrong but being that she lost her license, she should not be in that position."
She's not alone in thinking Kane didn't go far enough with her announcement.
"I don't think she deserves to have a position," said Sherry McMicken of Springville, adding that she believes Kane should step down.
While Kane certainly has had her defenders, across the street from where she made her announcement, most people said she made the right choice.
"I don't think she'd get elected back in anyway cause apparently she did a lot of bad stuff," said McMicken.
Kane is scheduled to go on trial in August for perjury charges related to her alleged leak of confidential information.
There are three names already in the mix for the Democratic nomination to replace her and two on the Republican side.