Good lord:
http://www.philly.com/...
Corbett, speaking yesterday to the PennLive editorial board in Harrisburg, repeated his oft-maligned claim that Pennsylvania companies can't fill jobs because they can't find applicants willing or able to pass drug tests.
One big problem: The business group Corbett cites when making that claim released an employer survey this summer that raised serious questions about his facts.
Corbett, who has relied on anecdotal evidence when talking about drug testing, did so again yesterday. He spoke of a woman who applied for a job at the Governor's Residence two years ago.
"We were ready to give somebody a job who really needed it," he said. "The night after we told her that she was going to get the job - but I guess we hadn't told her she had to pass a drug test - she celebrated. She came back in the next day and we said, 'You have to take a drug test,' and she said, 'I can't. Isn't that sad?' "
Corbett reminded the PennLive journalists: "You all took shots at me when I said this a couple of years ago."
That's a reference to stories written after Corbett said in an April 2013 interview that employers "can't find anybody that has passed a drug test."
Corbett cited anecdotal information from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, which backed up his claim.
The PMA this year hired a polling firm, which surveyed 200 executives from manufacturing businesses in the state.
That firm's report concluded: "For most companies, drug testing did not lead to a large percentage of potential employees refusing to take a drug test or show up for a drug test."
It also said that "a small percentage failed to pass the test." - Philadelphia Daily News, 10/16/14
He's just desperate because he knows he's screwed. But of course we can't get complacent and a big name was urging voters to be sure to come out and vote for Tom Wolf (D. PA):
http://www.mcall.com/...
First lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday urged a partisan crowd in Northwest Philadelphia to "step up" and work to elect Democrat Tom Wolf governor.
Her visit was aimed at fighting off a worry of party strategists - that Wolf's solid and long-standing lead in the polls, coupled with the typical midterm falloff in turnout among core Democratic voters, could be disastrous Nov. 4.
"If we want change here in Pennsylvania, then we need to take responsibility," Obama told several hundred cheering people at a morning rally at Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center in East Mount Airy.
President Obama, too, will come to Pennsylvania for Wolf in the last week of the campaign as part of a seven-state swing, the White House said Wednesday.
Campaign workers with clipboards moved through the rec center's gym, signing up people to take shifts making phone calls or knocking on doors, and Michelle Obama twice recited the Wolf campaign's web address.
She said that Wolf, a York businessman who turned around the family kitchen cabinet company with worker-friendly policies such as profit-sharing, would not accept "crumbling classrooms" and teacher shortages. It was a reference to cuts in state education funding early in Gov. Corbett's term that still are being felt in many school districts.
In addition, Obama said, Wolf will fight for an increase in the minimum wage, work for pay equity for women, and safeguard the right of women to make family-planning decisions for themselves. - Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/16/14
Wolf has consistently crushed Corbett in the polls by double digits but voter turnout is still important. Click here to donate and get involved with Wolf's campaign, State Senator Mike Stack's (D. PA) Lt. Governor campaign, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party so we can take back the State Senate and to Manan Trivedi (D. PA-06) and Kevin Strouse's (D. PA-08) campaigns:
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