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Archive for “Corbett” news
2 Republican Senators Are Worried that PA Terrorists Are Getting Welfare
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/24/2013
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Are there any Pennsylvanians on the federal terrorist watchlist receiving welfare assistance? And if so, how can we prevent them from getting it? Those are the questions two Republican state senators--Joe Scarnati and David Argall--posed to the state's Department of Welfare chief this week. They asked, by the way, because the Boston Marathon bombing suspects received state aid in Massachusetts, which for obvious reasons, set off a conservative firestorm. Here's the problem with such a policy.
1. It'd be very hard, politically and legally, to change the welfare laws in the state to exclude people for being suspected of terrorist proclivities. Governor Corbett's
Millersville U. REALLY Doesn’t Want Governor to Speak at Graduation
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/17/2013
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It Seems Business Leaders Kind of Agree with Corbett’s Drug Test Theory
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/02/2013
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Tom Corbett has been roundly ridiculed for chalking up Pennsylvania's anemic job growth to job applicants failing their drug tests. Well it seems his friends in the business community aren't laughing quite as hard.
“Asking me, ‘do you hear this from employers?’ is like asking ‘is the sky blue?’," David Taylor, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, told Politics PA. “A manufacturing firm has to go through hundreds of applicants just to get 4 or 5 or 6 hires."
Not because people are failing, but because they abandon their applications after finding out about the tests. PA Chamber of Business and Industry
Someone’s Running: Joe Sestak Just Raised A Half Million in Two Weeks
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/22/2013
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Former Congressman--excuse me, Former Congressman and Admiral--Joe Sestak has not said a peep about plans to run for office in Pennsylvania, whether that be Governor in 2014, or Senator in '16. But, as they say, money talks. In the first three months of 2013, Sestak raised $460,000. At the end of 2012, he had $8,600. (All for his old Senate campaign committee, but that doesn't really mean anything.) What's more, according to Politics PA, he raised nearly all of over the last two weeks in March, suggesting some serious schmooze potential. He's also currently teaching a course at Carnegie Mellon
Corbett Budget Chief Says Rendell Was Running a “Ponzi Scheme”
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/08/2013
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Ponzi scheme: an fraudulent investment plot that pays its investors by roping in new, unsuspecting investors; OR a conservative depiction of a popular government program. (See Perry, Rick.) Yesterday Corbett budget chief Charles Zogby unleashed the term to describe Ed Rendell's fiscal profligacy, including his expansion of adultBasic insurance for 40,000 of the working poor. (And which Corbett eliminated.) "It was the former governor who made that promise," Zogby said, referring to adultBasic. "Like so many of his Ponzi schemes, he looked for this governor to solve the problem." And "solve" that "problem," Corbett did. [Inquirer]
Corbett’s Budget Plan=Higher Gas Prices to Pay for Roads and Bridges
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/06/2013
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Corbett's plan to pay for transportation funding, announced during yesterday's budget address, would involve eliminating the cap on taxes for wholesale gas prices. Which, he assures us, is not a tax. OK, sure, tell it to Norquist. Whatever you call it, gas taxes would increase five cents a year over the next five years in order to pay for $1.8 billion in new transportation funding. Under Corbett's plan, the vast majority of the cash would go to repairing roads and bridges, while a little under $200 million would go towards little old SEPTA. [Inquirer]
