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Facebook Logo. Link Icon. Tom Corbett just won reelection. This is not an embargoed, just-in-case story for Wednesday, Nov. Nor is this a Republican's wet dream. It's better. It worked. It will work for Corbett, as well. And those education cuts? Voter ID? Doug Mastriano, representing Franklin County, unsuccessfully ran for the U. House of Representatives in before winning a special election for the 33rd senatorial district in He claims he did not participate in the rally once it turned violent, but has continued to keep ties with the former president.
Laughlin is another state senator that has confirmed interest in running for governor. Laughlin unseated an incumbent Democrat in to get his state senate seat. He has also announced the formation of a committee to explore a gubernatorial run. Congressmen Meuser has shown interest in running for governor, but would have to face off against the man he succeeded in the U.
House: Barletta. Prior to his political career, Meuser was an executive at Pride Mobility Products. He lost the race for the 10th congressional district in before serving as the head of the Department of Revenue under former Gov.
Tom Corbett. He was then successful in , winning the U. House race for the 9th congressional district. Meuser has also been supportive of Trump, including joining U. House Republicans in December supporting the Texas lawsuit that contested the presidential election in Pennsylvania.
After returning to Pennsylvania and private practice, he entered the state's political stage for the first time, winning the election for township commissioner in Shaler Township, Pennsylvania.
His skills and experience within the legal profession were recognized nationally when President George H. Bush appointed him United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania in ; he remained there until midway through Bill Clinton's first year in office. Following his resignation, he again returned to private practice in Pennsylvania , while simultaneously serving as an advisor to Tom Ridge's successful gubernatorial campaign.
In the wake of Ridge's victory, Corbett worked on a number of state commissions, including the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Deliquency where he served as chairman. When he was appointed by Ridge to fill the vacancy of state Attorney General left behind by the scandal-plagued Ernest Preate in , he was required by the State Senate Democrats to sign a pledge that said he would not run for re-election the next year, a common practice in the state of Pennsylvania for appointments to elected offices.
Leaving office in , he returned to the private sector by starting his own practice, Thomas Corbett and Associates , one he kept in operation until That same year he served as the general counsel for Waste Management. Corbett was elected the 46th Governor of Pennsylvania in the November 2, , general election. He was sworn into office on January 18, On July 22, , the Republican governors of Alabama , North Carolina , Pennsylvania , Utah and Wisconsin sent a letter to President Obama expressing concerns about how the administration was handling the increase in unaccompanied children crossing the U.
We fear that this will put a significant number of children at risk of abuse and neglect on their journey to the United States. Several polls were conducted in the months leading up to the general election to gauge the people of Pennsylvania's opinion of their governor. An April survey from Quinnipiac University Polling Institute showed Corbett's approval rating hovering at 47 percent approval to 38 percent disapproval, with a negative 29 to 43 percent favorability rating-- marking the fourth consecutive month of negative scores for the first term governor.
Most notably, the poll indicated that Corbett would find a formidable challenger in U. Schwartz lost the Democratic nomination to Tom Wolf , who has also polled very strongly against Corbett. A June analysis by The Business Journals ranked 45 governors based on the annual private sector growth rate in all 50 states using data from the U. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Corbett was ranked number The five governors omitted from the analysis all assumed office in In November of , before he assumed his position as Governor of Pennsylvania , Corbett voiced his support for the privatization of the 61 state liquor stores.
On January 30, , Corbett introduced a proposal to privatize the state-owned liquor stores and use the revenue to increase funding for education. The governor argued that "the selling of alcohol is not a core responsibility of government, but education is. Restaurants, already able to sell beer, would be able to sell customers up to six bottles of wine, while retail beer distributors could obtain licenses to sell beer, wine, and liquor, instead of only beer.
Under Corbett's plan, these funds would be distributed to school districts using a formula based on their student enrollment and income level.
The block grants would fund "school safety; early learning; science, technology, engineering and mathematics course programming; and 'individual learning. Two leading Republicans, Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati and Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi , supported increasing consumer choice but remained unconvinced that the government stores needed to be auctioned off.
State Representative John Taylor R proposed an alternative plan which would introduce more competition into the liquor market but allow a reduced number of the state stores to continue to operate. The United Food and Commercial Workers Local , which represents workers at the government liquor stores, also opposed privatization, while supporters of increased education funding remained divided by the plan.
Polls showed most Pennsylvanians favored privatization. Following its House passage, HB was sent to the Senate. Pileggi reasserted his emphasis on "looking for ways to increase convenience, and selection at a competitive price" rather than privatization. He indicated that the bill would be changed before passage in the Senate.
Corbett refused to publicly comment on how he would approach negotiations with the Senate but reaffirmed his support for privatization. Corbett delivered his budget to the Pennsylvania Legislature in early February Nathan Benefield of the pro-market Commonwealth Foundation commended Corbett for his "fiscal restraint" and asserted that Corbett's leadership had helped revive Pennsylvania's economy, which created jobs at a rate 17 times higher than that of the other 49 states.
Benefield also supported Corbett's proposal to eliminate the state's corporate tax. Tom Corbett endorsed Mitt Romney in the presidential election. When Corbett left the attorney general's office in , he appointed Linda Kelly R to serve as his replacement for the remainder of his term, ending in January When Kelly was sworn in on May 24, , she assumed leadership of the state's high profile investigation into former Penn State football coach and eventual convicted sex-offender Jerry Sandusky, who was charged with 45 counts of sexual abuse committed between and Originating during Corbett's tenure as attorney general in late , the case's revelations about Sandusky reverberated far beyond the boundaries of Penn State's campus, inciting an onslaught of emotional pleas to the state to deliver swift justice in order to begin the healing process.
Despite the mounting pressure from the public and press to advance the investigation to trial as quickly as possible, the Pennsylvania attorney general's office, which oversaw the case, proceeded with caution instead of urgency. The case spent two years in controversial gestation under Corbett - and then Kelly - before charges were brought against Sandusky in November On June 22, , a jury convicted Sandusky of 45 out of the 48 counts of sex abuse for which he was indicted, including 25 felonies and 20 misdemeanors.
After the verdict was delivered, Kelly said she was confident Sandusky received a fair trial, notwithstanding the hurried pace of the proceedings, and the defense's request for a mistrial following the prosecution's exposure of an erroneously incriminating interview Sandusky did with Bob Costas - "The commonwealth expects to prevail on any appeal, and as far as the timing, the judge made it clear from the beginning to all the parties that he intended to move this case along quickly," Kelly said on CNN.
Echoing Kelly's defense of the trial's sprint to conclusion, and the dismissed mistrial, Corbett said that he expected these issues to manifest in future appeals, but ultimately, the jury's decision was informed by the "compelling testimony of these now young men who were young boys who suffered at the hands of this pedophile.
Whether or not the handing of the case should be reviewed further was a dominant issue in the attorney general race. Both major party candidates, David Freed R and Kathleen Kane D , said they would review the office's, and Corbett's, performance leading the Sandusky investigation if elected.
On the day Corbett took the oath of office as governor, a protest was held in opposition to the threat of forced natural gas pooling laws, which protesters claimed would be on the agenda in the upcoming legislative session.
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