PHILLY.COM / AP: …”Next thing you know, there was Gov. Wolf standing there grinning,” said Bloom, a Cumberland County Republican.
It was one of Tom Wolf’s surprise visits with lawmakers that are sowing good will among the Legislature’s huge Republican majorities, and the Democrat might need every drop of it after an aggressive and, at times, confrontational first month.
Already, Wolf has managed to inflame the natural gas industry, Senate Republicans and law enforcement groups, including state troopers. In a little over a week, Wolf will unveil a budget proposal in which he is widely expected to ruffle more feathers by seeking tax increases to deliver on a campaign promise to pump significant new sums of money into public schools amid a yawning structural deficit… (more)
