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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Gov. Corbett in 2010? Another GOP contender?
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Pat Toomey · Pennsylvania Politics · Tom Corbett · Patrick Meehan · Republicans
Wolf resigns; Guv run could be next
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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, […]
Tags: Tom Corbett · Pennsylvania Politics · Patrick Meehan · Issues: State Budget · Issues: Economy · Ed Rendell
A name to remember
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m not saying U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan resigned his post today specifically to run for governor. His reasons are related to going into “private practice,” which means switching from one of the top state prosecutor into a defense mode, but I digress.
But if Meehan is planning to run for governor in 2010 as a Republican, the […]
Tags: Patrick Meehan · Ed Rendell
