It was payback for when JoePA refused to endorse Corbett - Paterno never endorsed gubernatorial candidates since whomever won would have an automatic seat on the Penn State Board. Corbett focused on the fact that his opponent, Dan Onorato, was a Penn State grad who was welcomed in the President's box at Penn State games. After Paterno was fired with a phone call, Corbett was heard by other trustees bragging that he had engineered it and took credit for it. Another piece of payback was that one of his first actions as governor was a proposal to slash funding for higher education by nearly 50%, the brunt of the cuts to be born by Penn State.
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/02/15/tom-corbett-pro-anti-penn-state/
Republican Tom Corbett is a mean, petty, nasty, spiteful waste of oxygen, and I am not the least surprised that one of Joe Paterno's kids would run as a Democrat.
Corbett's (gubernatorial) opponent was Dan Onorato, a former Allegheny County chief executive and a Penn State alumnus who spent several days campaigning on the Penn State campus. Corbett spent time in State College, too. He had tried to get Paterno, a staunch Republican, to endorse him, but Paterno declined; the coach had a policy against endorsing gubernatorial candidates because the election winner, as Pennsylvania governor, would get a seat on Penn State's board of trustees.
One senior member of the Penn State faculty recalls seeing Corbett, surrounded by his security detail and friends, at the American Ale House & Grill in State College on Thursday evening, Nov. 10, the night before the regularly scheduled board meeting.
"He was just effusive," the faculty member says.
"It was like a victory celebration. I remember thinking at the time that it just seemed a strange thing … a kind of gratuitous political piling on." The faculty member, who was sitting near Corbett and overheard much of his conversation, added that the governor "left the impression that he was much more engaged, and really influential, in the board's discussions up to that point."
On the Saturday morning of the Nov. 12 Nebraska game -- the first Penn State game without Paterno on the staff since 1949 --
Bob Capretto, a 65-year-old former Penn State player who admittedly "loves Joe Paterno," had a conversation with Corbett, whom he considers a friend. Capretto says he asked Corbett, "Who told the board to fire Joe and fire Spanier?"
"And the governor said, 'I told them to do it,'" Capretto says. "He was proud of it. I told him, 'You don't realize what you have created here. The damage to Penn State is enormous.'" [/div]
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7770996/in-wake-joe-paterno-death-sandusky-sex-abuse-scandal-power-struggle-spread-penn-state-state-capital
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