One-Term Tom is Now America's Worst EX-Governor

Four years ago, Tom Corbett's Pennsylvania wave swept out a State House Majority that I had been a part of building at the HDCC, including my boss, the former Majority Leader Todd Eachus. At that time, I disappointedly quipped that Pennsylvania would regret electing Corbett as our Governor, and that the man was not capable of running the state. He proved me right every day in office. Be it his allowing frackers to pollute our water but not be taxed, be it his bankrupting our schools by cutting the state's share of education funding, be it his unwillingness to expand Medicaid, or be it anything else he did as Governor, the man was a failure as Governor. Pennsylvania ran a structural deficit, job creation fell, and economic development didn't keep up with the state's needs.

Last night, Pennsylvanians re-affirmed my faith in them as intelligent, reasonable people. They kicked Tom Corbett out of office after just one term, the first Governor in the modern era to suffer that fate. The man was never capable of the job, and the voters saw that, and corrected their mistake from four years ago. One-term Tom is leaving Harrisburg soon, and Pennsylvania is better off for it. The worst governor in America is now heading to being a former governor.