Tom Corbett

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This Is How Many People Corbett Has Kicked Off Food Stamps

A year ago, Pennsylvania instituted means-testing for food stamp applicants, in an effort to cut down on those age-old scourges, waste and fraud. Here’s what […]

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Weekly Standard Tries to Connect Kermit Gosnell and Allyson Schwartz

Exhibit A that conservatives will try to use Allyson Schwartz’s past against her during her gubernatorial run. Today’s headline in the Weekly Standard: “Did Pennsylvania […]

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Don’t Blame the Druggies, Tom Corbett

Sorry if this post is a little late. I’ve been spending all my free time recently getting stoned and not finding a job. The good […]

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It Seems Business Leaders Kind of Agree with Corbett’s Drug Test Theory

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 […]

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Tom Corbett Is Ruining The GOP For Everybody

Roll Call says Gov. Tom Corbett has become so unpopular that other Pennsylvania Republicans are nervous he’ll drag down the entire party during next year’s […]

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Tom Corbett Can’t Create Jobs Because You’re Getting High On Drugs

On the heels of Monday’s news that Pennsylvania’s job-creation ranks 49th among the 50 states, Gov. Tom Corbett has responded with a play straight out […]

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Will PA Senate Save Liquor Privatization? Will Liquor Bill Save Tom Corbett’s Career?

Is the day at last at hand? That sweet, glorious day when you’ll be able to walk into a local liquor store and be able […]

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Hooray For Not Being Last! PA 49th in Job Growth

Things PA beats Wyoming at: JOBS! Compared to one year ago, Pennsylvania’s job growth (several thousand jobs were actually lost) ranks 49th in the United […]

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Powerful Liquor Privatization Foe Pulls a 180. Or Does He?

Last week, National Review lambasted Pennsylvania GOP State Senator Chuck McIlhinney for standing athwart Pennsylvania’s liquor privatization effort. A couple days later he was on […]

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Bob Brady Picks His Horse in Governor’s Race

Northeast Philly State Senator Mike Stack isn’t the highest-profile candidate in the running for Tom Corbett’s seat–that honor would go to Allyson Schwartz, or Joe […]

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What Is Tom Corbett Keeping Secret?

Looks like we’ll find out soon. AP reports that a state appeals court has ruled that Gov. Corbett must turn over unredacted emails and calendar […]

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Tom Corbett Is The Governor Of The Year*

*According to the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a coalition of 1,100 “biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and […]

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Someone’s Running: Joe Sestak Just Raised A Half Million in Two Weeks

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 […]

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McGinty In, As Governor’s Race Just Got A Whole Lot More Interesting

Ladies and gents, we have ourselves a new challenger. Kathleen McGinty, former Rendell Department of Environmental Protection Chief, has thrown her proverbial hat in the […]

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Not So Fast With Your Dreams of Cheap Wine, Philly

Tom Corbett and the Republican-controlled PA House are either very smart, or very dumb. As they push their liquor privatization bill through Harrisburg, they are […]