PA-Gov: Democratic PAC’s New Ad Blasts Corbett (VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cY9X-CKMaI

PA Families First, an independent PAC, shelled out nearly $2 million to air a new television advertisement that attacks Governor Corbett for his alleged cuts to education.

The 30 second ad will air in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia.

Entitled “Paycheck,” the advertisement discusses Corbett’s first budget, which cut basic school funding by $1 billion. Local districts subsequently made cutbacks, and raised property taxes in some areas.

Corbett stated that he did not cut funding and has invested $1.5 billion in education over the last four decades. He believes that his challenger Tom Wolf will ignore the current pension crisis, an issue that the Governor states is the main cause for property tax increases.

The ad also places pressure on Corbett to back a production tax on Pennsylvania’s natural-gas drilling industry.

The natural gas industry “is not paying its fair share,” according to the advertisement.

The Corbett campaign countered that natural gas companies have paid over $2 billion in taxes over the last six years. The $630 million “local impact fee” also had statewide benefits.

Chris Pack, the Governor’s communications director stated that “Wolf has been bought and paid for by the public sector union bosses…to ignore the need for pension reform in Pennsylvania.”

According to Thomas Fitzgerald of the Inquirer, PA Families First is supported by the Democratic Governor’s Association, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.

So far this month, another outside PAC called NextGen and the Wolf-aligned FreshStartPA have also launched ads against Governor Corbett.

3 Responses

  1. ***The ad is laughable. The prominent female laments increases in local taxes. Yet, if Tom Wolf were elected, a whole host of statewide taxes would be increased to fund his spending spree. So, the choice is clear if you don’t want an increase in the income tax, an energy tax, job-threatening taxes on the natural gas industry…

  2. that commercial was just a complete lie. Corbett increased the education budget each year hes been in office. His predecessor Rendell was the one who cut funding to our schools. Wolf is also trying to quickly shift the blame for increasing property taxes to this lie, when the true cause is from the pension crisis that will begin to be a huge drain on our budget in the next upcoming years

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