Blog post & article on Corbett's Very Bad Week - Repub Powerbrokers Think He Has an IMAGE Problem

[JPZenger]

Last edited Thu May 24, 2012, 03:47 PM - Edit history (6)

http://yinzercation.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/the-governors-bad-week/

Great blog post by a person in SW PA who has become a leading commentator on school funding in Pa.

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Meanwhile the Philadelphia Inquirer has an extensive article today in which it says that many Pa. Republican leaders are concerned that Corbett has a serious IMAGE problem. They seem to think he just needs better public relations staff and then everyone will love his policies. They are actually telling Corbett to act more like Scott Walker.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/20120524_Corbett_to_face_GOP_s__tough_love_.html?viewAll=y

Excerpts:

"Next week, according to four sources speaking on condition of anonymity, a small circle of heavyweights in the Republican Party, known as the governor's "kitchen cabinet," will be quietly meeting with Corbett in Harrisburg to push for changes to his top staff in the Capitol.
Their quarrel is not over policy, but with what some senior state Republicans see as political clumsiness: an inability or unwillingness to sell his agenda and his successes to the public, while at the same time allowing a tense or even dysfunctional relationship with the Republican-controlled legislature to fester unchecked.

...Whether Corbett heeds the political advice remains a question mark. The governor, say those who know him best, is often unmoved by what other people think of him, or want him to do...The result has been almost daily protests in and outside the Capitol, from schoolchildren, the disabled, caregivers, teachers, and activists for the poor. All have picked up on the "tin man" expression coined in a headline earlier this year in the Philadelphia Daily News.

"He treats the legislature like the enemy," said one longtime Republican legislative staffer in the Capitol. "He spent several years persecuting the legislature as he prosecuted some members and staff. Yet throughout that process, neither he nor his staff bothered to learn the legislature. Or the political process."

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A woman involved with the current movement of organizing school parents to call the Governor's office about school funding has reported they have received many very rude responses from the Governor's staff.

[drm604]

1. K&R

[Mc Mike]

2. If he'd just change his hair cut,

my complaints about his fascism, and lack of intelligence and integrity, would instantly cease.