Bird’s-Eye View

John Baer of the Philadelphia Daily News says state Attorney General Tom Corbett’s dominating win over his Democratic challenger makes him a likely frontrunner for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination. Corbett won a second four-year term by defeating Democratic John Morganelli by 390,000 and won 61 of 67 counties in a year when Democrats had just […]

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Tom Wolf, Gov. Ed Rendell’s secretary of revenue, resigned today. While that may be a yawner at first impression, see this from the Associated Press:
Wolf, however, would not elaborate on his plans during a Capitol news conference with Gov. Ed Rendell. He sidestepped a question about whether he was running for governor.
“I’ve made a decision, […]

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From the Associated Press:
Pennsylvania’s attorney general says he does not expect to file new charges before the end of the year in the investigation of alleged corruption in the Legislature.
But Tom Corbett told a Harrisburg news conference Thursday that could change as investigators uncover new details.
The Republican, who was re-elected Tuesday, reiterated that the probe […]

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Attorney General Tom Corbett told the Pennsylvania Press Club he would file no new charges in the Bonusgate scandal until after the election, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:
Corbett, a Republican, had previously said he would not file any charges after Oct. 1, observing a month-long moratorium before the election. That was the policy he […]

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