July 12, 2010, 11:19 am
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Dan Onorato slammed his opponent Attorney General Tom Corbett at a press conference today. “Tom Corbett stood in Lancaster last week where 21,700 people are currently unemployed and he said ‘the jobs are there but if we keep extending unemployment people are going to sit there’ as though they don’t want to go back to work,” Onorato stated. “My opponent thinks that the only thing wrong with the economy is that Pennsylvanians are lazy and they don’t want to work, he’s simply wrong. 591,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians would like to know: where are all these jobs? Tom Corbett has insulted the hardworking men and women of Pennsylvania who are looking for work in these tough economic times. Tom Corbett has proven that he doesn’t have what it takes to be governor.” Check the PLS Capitol Toolbox later today for the full story.
July 12, 2010, 9:49 am
CORBETT SAYS SOME PENNSYLVANIANS WOULD RATHER COLLECT UNEMPLOYMENT
According to an article in the Morning Call, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett came under fire Friday when he said some jobless Pennsylvanians would rather collect unemployment than return to work. During a campaign appearance in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Corbett told a reporter from Pennsylvania Public Radio that “the jobs are there,” but he’d been told by business owners that, “one of the issues, and I hear it repeatedly – one of the individuals said, ‘I can’t get workers. People don’t want to come back to work while they still have unemployment.’ ”Corbett told the radio outlet that a business owner had “literally” told him that job-seekers were saying they’d “‘come back to work when unemployment runs out.” Click here to read the Morning Call article.
PENNDOT CONSIDERING SELLING ADVERTISEMENT SPACE ON ELECTRONIC SIGNS
According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Faced with an urgent, unmet need to improve roads, bridges and transit systems, state transportation officials are exploring an unusual way to generate cash: charging advertisers to post commercial messages on Variable Message Boards on interstate highways that cross Pennsylvania. Some of the
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