How the Left Cut Down a Democratic Frontrunner

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54. Maybe I'm being naive, but Mr. Wolfe's website indicates that he still ives in the house he was born

(although that was clearly not a log cabin or shack!), that he spent 2 years in the Peace Corps, and that after selling out his share in a family owned company, he later re-invested in that company to save jobs when the company got caught in the recession.

Then - there is this:

As president of Better York, Wolf and his associates cobbled together an alliance of mid-sized cities throughout Pennsylvania in the mid-’90s to lobby the state legislature for laws that would turn back the tide of new development onto older central cities and towns, and rescind subsidies for new suburban sprawl, like highway widenings and the expansion of sewer lines and other municipal infrastructure into undeveloped areas. York, Lancaster, and Chester even proposed implementing growth boundaries that would contain new development within compact areas near existing infrastructure.

The efforts resulted in the fairly weak Growing Greener laws passed during the Tom Ridge administration, but the push for stronger regionalism policies continues today from groups like 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, PennFuture, and local groups like the Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project and Renew Lehigh Valley.

Wolf was one of the most visible advocates of the Rusk report's recommendations, supporting more shared services between the poorer non-white population in the city and its wealthier whiter suburbs, regionalizing the tax base and land use planning, and improving public transit connections.

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/05/08/tom-wolf-racial-politics-rob-mccord-attack-ad/

Now, I'd love to see him push a ban on fracking as well, but I'd love to have a pony, as well! All in all, he looks like a good guy. I don't think being welathy automatically excludes a person from being a good Democrat - look at FDR, JFK, LBJ and teddy Kennedy.