Union hits Corbett on liquor privatization; says will ‘destroy business’
Governor Tom Corbett says he wants the state Senate to give him a liquor privatization bill by June 30th. And until that time, the union representing liquor store workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1776, will be airing television and radio commercials calling an end to the state monopoly a “reckless scheme” that will “raise our...
Continue ReadingCorbett Has No Excuses Left on Medicaid Expansion
As if things couldn’t get worse for Pennsylvania’s governor, an independent report was released this week showing his administration’s stubborn rejection of Medicaid funds to lock the rings of Obamacare in place in the commonwealth is, probably, the wrong one. The report was released by the Republican-controlled state Legislature’s Fiscal Office. It noted...
Continue ReadingPoll Shows People Still Opposed to Liquor Board as Corbett Logs More Face Time
It’s full speed ahead for Pennsylvania’s liquor privatization advocates. Yesterday, the conservative Commonwealth Foundation released a poll they commissioned through public opinion research group Fairbank, Maslin, Maulin, Metz and Associates — a firm, it was correctly pointed out by CF, with a majority Democrat client list — and found the same results...
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Did Corbett Budget Live Up To Post-Newtown Mental Health Comments?
Come view my Modest Proposal. When Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett was asked about how to respond to the Newtown tragedy in December, he told reporters it wasn’t really an issue of guns, but of mental health. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an assault weapon or a handgun,” he said. “It’s a mental health issue that we have to...
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Corbett Universally, Deservedly Panned for Penn State Lawsuit
Nothing to see here. As has been the case through much of his governorship, Gov. Tom Corbett recently made what was probably the wrong decision. He announced—via pep rally!—that he’d be filing a federal law suit to, as the New York Times put it. “force the NCAA to revoke the highly deserved sanctions imposed on the school and its powerful football...
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Corbett Stresses Mental Health After Newtown—But His Record Says Otherwise
Nothing to see here. During questions on last week’s Newtown massacre, in which 27 people were killed, Gov. Tom Corbett told reporters that mental illness, not guns, is to blame for the tragedy. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an assault weapon or a handgun,” he said. “It’s a mental health issue that we have to work as hard as...
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Here’s What Gov. Corbett’s Health-Care Rejection Means
Gov. Corbett issued a seething statement regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act yesterday, as he rejected a state-run insurance exchange. In his rejection letter, he noted that the federal government continuously dismissed his administration’s questions and that Health and Human Services secretary Katherine Sebelius admitted the laws...
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DAILY GRINDER: 7 Northeast States—but not Pennsylvania—Sue EPA Over Methane
Seven states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, saying it is “failing to address methane emissions from oil and gas drilling,” according to the Associated Press. And, not surprisingly, Pennsylvania is not one of the suing states. (OK, so: methane good; health care bad. Got it.) After all, the American Petroleum Institute says the suit “makes...
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DAILY GRINDER: Philly Dems Getting Ready to Combat Pa. Lottery Privatization
The Penn-syl-van-ia LOTT-ER-Y must die No shock here: Democrats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are not happy about Gov. Tom Corbett’s plans to privatize everything, including the Pennsylvania lottery system (which benefits older Pennsylvanians everyday.) State Sen. Vincent Hughes (D-Philadelphia) said the governor needs to at least come to the...
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DAILY GRINDER: Ed Rendell Urges More Fracking—In New York!
Former Governor Ed Rendell is attempting to peer-pressure New York Governor Andrew Cuomo into overturning that state’s fracking ban—because “it’s a good thing to do.” That’s at least what he’s telling the New York Post, which, unsurprisingly, has published a pretty not-so-flattering picture of the former guv, because that’s their thing (not...
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