From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS:
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett‘s cuts to education funding and proposed credits for chemical refiners has sent his approval rating into a swoon. Just 36 percent of Pennsylvanians approved of the Republican governor’s job performance this month, down from his all-time high of 50 percent in September, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
Corbett supports a tax credit for chemical refiners that would cost his state more than $1.7 billion over 25 years starting in 2017. At the same time, he has cut $1 billion in funding to public schools and universities.
Democrats are capitalizing on growing discontent. “We’ve already given away the store to the Marcellus Shale industry,” state Rep. Phyllis Mundy (D-Luzerne County) told the Herald-Mail. “Now we’re proposing to give away billions of tax dollars?”
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EDITOR: From Sandusky foot dragging, to Marcelllus Shale outsized funding of his election campaign, and now to a huge Shell give away, how bad can a guy get? Bring in the Feds!