PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Editorial: The Corbett administration apparently can’t walk, govern and chew gum at the same time. And the Pennsylvania Legislature doesn’t appear to be any more coordinated.
Gov. Tom Corbett, weak-kneed in the conviction department, on Thursday walked away from his push for a voter-identification law. He said he will not appeal to the state Supreme Court a January ruling by a Commonwealth Court judge that said the measure placed an undue burden on voters. Not only will there not be an appeal, the Legislature won’t attempt to pass another version of the law during the rest of this year’s session..
As for the overpaid, overperked and corrupt body that is the Pennsylvania Legislature, how does it keep a straight face in saying that it cannot, over the next five months, work to create a challenge-proof voter ID system?… (more)
EDITOR: Corbett recognizes that he could not revise the Voter ID law by November’s election and decided not to further antagonize the African American and Latino communities as well as others. We at least agree with the first sentence.
