In A column “A year into his term, Corbett’s true colors show”, Jeff Hawkes excoriates Governor Tom Corbett for “doing questionable things for questionable reasons.”
Among Corbett’s many failings pointed out by Hawkes:
“The state constitution says legislative districts must be compact and contiguous. But presented with a scheme that split communities and improved the odds of fellow Republicans, Corbett showed his true colors. He put partisanship above principle.”
“Is it reasonable, for example, to kill affordable health insurance for nearly 41,000 low-wage but taxpaying workers — the people who change your oil, wait on your table and deliver your newspaper? While options were available to keep the adultBasic plan going without spending tax dollars, Corbett did not lift a finger.”
“Is it reasonable, too, to ask the poorest school districts to lay off the greatest number of educators? Is it reasonable to drive up college tuition with one hand and with the other to cut corporate taxes? And is it reasonable to fight harder for the natural gas industry than for the people who thought the government was supposed to be on their side?”
WATCHDOG: Three wags of the tail! It takes courage to so criticize a sitting governor. Also, congratulations to the editors for publishing the column.
If the Pennsylvania Constitution permitted recall elections for governors, we would sign the first petition.
It doesn’t take much courage for a died-in-the-wool liberal to excoriate any Republican…happens all the time, just read the “Intell” editorial page…..there’s lots of excoriating going around. LNP promotes it at every opportunity it can.
Bad Governor, no donut.
Liberal? Ask any Conservative homeowner who is being forced to pay higher real estate taxes because of Corbett’s slashing of school funding. Ask any Conservative parent whose children no longer have access to valued educational programs, as school boards desperately scramble to compensate for lost State funding. They will tell you exactly what kind of governor Corbett is!