Poll shows Corbett’s priorities in wrong place, for real
Show me the unskewed poll, please. Hope someone is getting used to this. Because every time we joke about how things couldn’t get any worse for Governor Tom Corbett, they just fucking do. This time, it turns out the governor’s priorities—all of them—are in the wrong place. And maybe you already knew that. But a new poll lays it out clearer than we could...
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Don’t Worry, I Will Be at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference This Weekend
Tomorrow begins my favorite weekend of the year. It’s time for the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill, Pa., in which conservative activists and Republican politicians from all over the state descend upon a hotel across the river from the state Capitol and do conservative things. I’ll be there most of the weekend, both live-tweeting events...
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Gov. Corbett Defends ‘Ultrasound’ Comments: “Taken Completely Out of Context”
Gov. Tom Corbett went on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT’s “The Dom Giordano Show” Tuesday morning as part of a long-time-coming effort to get himself a publicity makeover, now that a large majority of Pennsylvanians want anybody but him representing them come 2014. As part of that conversation on the conservative radio program, he was asked about...
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BACKGROUNDER: Rep. Allyson Schwartz’s Likely Run for Governor
A recent Democratic Governors’ Association poll found that U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz could be in striking distance to take the governor’s mansion in 2014. And that’s got some Harrisburg politicos ready to support her potential candidacy, should it come to fruition. According to PoliticsPA, the DGA found Schwartz leading Gov. Tom Corbett—who’s...
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Why Petitioners Insist Gov. Corbett Should Accept Medicaid Expansion in Pennsylvania
I'm still thinking! It’s a new year with bright possibilities and chances to make something good of yourself — you know, all that stuff you believed until the reality of life set in, around age 9. One thing, at least, we can be certain of: In 2013, Gov. Tom Corbett will make a decision regarding Pennsylvania’s participation in the Patient Protection...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Gov. Corbett Thinks GOP Should Not Change Ways
The lede in this CBS story is all you need to know about Gov. Corbett: “Unlike many pundits and even some of his fellow Republicans, Governor Tom Corbett does not believe the GOP must make drastic changes in order to compete in future presidential elections.” Huh? OK, we’ll play along, why not? Well, he says, President Obama began the election season...
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Time for Gov. Corbett to Figure Out the Health-Care Exchange
"Decisions, decisions..." The election is over and it’s time, again, to worry about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Specifically, what our lawsuit-filing governor (and former attorney general) cares to do about the issue. Because like it or not, although the deadline has been extended, President Obama’s re-election combined with...
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DAILY GRINDER: The Debates Are Over—Here are Five Takeaways
...The debates are over. God bless America. Like many of you (I assume), I am very happy the debates are over and Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will never, ever have to publicly speak to each other again. The general consensus of last night’s debate was that the president won pretty handily, but whatever. Who cares? It’s just a foreign policy...
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DAILY GRINDER: Camden Officially Poorest U.S. City
Camden is now officially the poorest city in the United States. It was announced late last week that the New Jersey city across the Delaware has replaced the also localish Reading, Pennsylvania in this dishonor—although the margin of error when it comes to measuring poverty could make it hard to tell which is actually the poorest. Not sure how I missed this...
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DAILY GRINDER: Corbett Repeats Fake, Discredited Welfare-to-Work Smear on Philly Visit
During one of his stops in Philly yesterday, Governor Tom Corbett went out of his way to repeat a discredited claim that the Obama Administration has weakened the work requirement in the welfare-to-work program. “We need to get people off of dependency with the government by getting them jobs, by building the economy, not by waiving rules of looking for...
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