NEW YORK TIMES: Since Pennsylvania changed the law in 1968 to allow its governor to serve two consecutive terms, no incumbent has been denied re-election. But Tom Corbett, a Republican, is in danger of becoming the first…
…Democrats are hammering at what they call Mr. Corbett’s $1 billion cut to education. Polls, including one by Quinnipiac University, show education is a top concern of voters, after jobs and the economy. It is true that classroom spending dropped by close to that figure, $841 million, in the governor’s first budget. But he argues that it was because federal stimulus dollars ended that year. He has restored money to education, and in February proposed an election-year budget increasing public school spending by $400 million…
All four Democratic contenders agree on how to increase education spending: by taxing the booming natural gas industry. They argue that Pennsylvania is giving away the store to drillers in the Marcellus shale formation by not collecting more… (more)
EDITOR: How about the indirect tax increase on gasoline taxes? (Needed, but such hypocrisy.)
Not to mention the delay when Corbett was attorney general to prosecute Jerry Sandusky while pocketing huge contributions from Sandusky’s board members.
And, oh yes, there also is his leading role in firing the dying Joe Paterno and seeking and accepting the outrageously unfair settlement with the NCAA.
Re-elected? More likely tarred and feathered and ridden out on a rail. That is unless something very bad turns up about presumptive Democrat nominee Tom Wolf.
