By Alex Roarty
PoliticsPA Staff Writer
roarty@politicspa.com

The decision Monday by Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett, his party’s gubernatorial front-runner, to join a lawsuit challenging the federal health care bill’s constitutionality isn’t sitting well with state Democratic Party Chairman T.J. Rooney.

“It is wrong for Candidate Corbett to use the office of Attorney General for his thinly veiled political posturing on critical health care reform,” Rooney said in a statement. “What’s worse, in bringing Pennsylvania into this ridiculous lawsuit Corbett is siding with big insurance over people with pre-existing conditions and the hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians who will receive health care as a result of this legislation.

“Pennsylvanians deserve a leader who stands up for working people,” he added. “Corbett’s actions yesterday prove that he is far more concerned with raising the profile of his political candidacy than doing the right thing for Pennsylvania families.”

Corbett will join with 10 attorney generals from across the state in the lawsuit.