Can Pennsylvania Recall Gov. Tom Corbett?

**BarryG** · 07-12-2012, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by eldondre

State closes property transfer tax loophole - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

didn't see that one coming, also seems like good news

Don't tell Grover Norquist, this sounds like a tax increase!

**annie** · 07-12-2012, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by Litter Box

In a case like this someone with a verifiable medical situation should continue to get assistance. I am far from an expert but wouldn't SS disability be another path to take ?

The article says he's hoping his Social Security case gets approved next year.

Nearly everyone that applies for SSD gets denied on the first try and end up hiring an attorney to represent them in court. It takes months to get a date in court. If you get denied again (judges can be a roll of the die - there's one in the area that's never approved a mental health case EVER, for instance), you can appeal. Sometimes a person gets approved after years of appeals resulting in a rather large first check for being disabled all the time the government was fighting it (the attorney's percentage maxes out at something like $6K).

GA provided a lifeline for people until SS started paying and when they won they repaid the state for the GA so as not to double-dip. Something like $30 million of GA got repaid every year when people won their pending SSD/SSI claims.

**Litter Box** · 07-13-2012, 01:21 AM

Originally Posted by annie

The article says he's hoping his Social Security case gets approved next year.

Nearly everyone that applies for SSD gets denied on the first try and end up hiring an attorney to represent them in court. It takes months to get a date in court. If you get denied again (judges can be a roll of the die - there's one in the area that's never approved a mental health case EVER, for instance), you can appeal. Sometimes a person gets approved after years of appeals resulting in a rather large first check for being disabled all the time the government was fighting it (the attorney's percentage maxes out at something like $6K).

GA provided a lifeline for people until SS started paying and when they won they repaid the state for the GA so as not to double-dip. Something like $30 million of GA got repaid every year when people won their pending SSD/SSI claims.

It sounded to me that his fall back was taking SS at 62 and not 65. The retirement age for some younger people has been moved back to 67 or 67.5. I assume that he is still eligible to get reduced SS at 62. I was thinking SSD was a way to avoid the political BS and take a lot of worry off his mind. FWIW I had a friend get SSD on the first shot with very bad back. Like on other things I am not an expert on SS. I wish him luck and some good advisers.

**Gio7707** · 07-27-2012, 04:10 PM

The impeachment of Pa. Constitution-shredding Tom Corbett

There are some things about the Tea Party that I get -- disagree with, vehemently, but get -- but one thing I never did understand was their complaint that President Obama is shredding the Constitution. Ask them to explain why, and you won't hear the only plausible argument -- targeted assassination-- but instead muttering about things like "Obamacare," which a conservative-leaning Supreme Court just found to be, um, constitutional.

Meanwhile, you never get the same argument on the state level. But you should. Here in Pennsylvania, in just 18 months, Gov. Tom Corbett and his legislative enablers haven't just ripped apart the Pennsylvania Constitution, but they've torched it and stomped on it for good measure. Indeed, it's increasing falling on the Pennsylvania court system to undo the brazen unconstitutionality of the Corbett regime.

**boognish** · 07-27-2012, 04:36 PM

Are you 15?

**mixiboi** · 07-27-2012, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by boognish

Are you 15?

You didn't click the link I see...that is the opening lines of the article...

**Litter Box** · 07-27-2012, 05:19 PM

Corbett's approval rating is at 36%.

Gov. Tom Corbett's approval rating reaches all-time low of 36%: poll | PennLive.com

**raider.adam** · 07-27-2012, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by boognish

Are you 15?

Originally Posted by mixiboi

You didn't click the link I see...that is the opening lines of the article...

Well, it was a Will Bunch article, so I could understand why he would think that.

**Naveen** · 07-28-2012, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Litter Box

Corbett's approval rating is at 36%.

Gov. Tom Corbett's approval rating reaches all-time low of 36%: poll | PennLive.com

Right now, he deserves a lower approval rating than that.

**boognish** · 07-28-2012, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by mixiboi

You didn't click the link I see...that is the opening lines of the article...

It really had nothing to do with the article and everything to do with his unceasing barrage of similar posts. The only people I've ever met who continually make these types of statements are high-schoolers and know-it-all college students.

Don't get me wrong, I support his/her right to say whatever he pleases, but it smacks of naivete.

**mixiboi** · 08-11-2012, 10:24 AM

He got time to sign death sentences...the first in 13 years in PA....

Corbett signs death warrant for ex-Phila. man - Philly.com

**Gio7707** · 08-11-2012, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by mixiboi

He got time to sign death sentences...the first in 13 years in PA....

Corbett signs death warrant for ex-Phila. man - Philly.com

In a Jan. 9 sworn statement, Marc Draper said Williams killed Norwood because of the abusive nature of their sexual relationship. Police coerced him into saying robbery was the motive, he said.

None of that information - including background on Williams' physical abuse by his mother and stepfather, and childhood sexual abuse by a neighbor and a teacher - was presented to the Common Pleas Court jury that condemned Williams to death in February 1986.

"The jury didn't know about any of these things," Nolan said. "And it's important. A number of jurors have told us that if they had known about it, they wouldn't have sentenced him to death."

According to interviews excerpted in court documents filed by Nolan last month, all five jurors the lawyers located also said they voted for death because they were under the mistaken impression that a life sentence would have allowed Williams to be released on parole.

**Gio7707** · 08-19-2012, 12:35 AM

Dismay as Corbett ends funding for tax-credit program for low-income families - Philly.com

The Corbett administration has stopped funding a program that helped low-income working people get federal tax credits that kept them out of poverty.

The program, administered by the Department of Public Welfare for just over $500,000, also helped pay for low-income workers to have their taxes prepared free, which saves people at or below the poverty line hundreds of dollars, advocates say.

The cut echoes growing concerns among Republicans in Congress about the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and other similar measures, seen as too much government in a time of financial crisis.

That would be a reversal of decades of bipartisan support for the tax credit, once called "the best antipoverty program in America" by President Ronald Reagan.

**thoth** · 09-13-2012, 02:51 PM

https://twitter.com/EAFiedler/status...710017/photo/1
"Corbett taking questions after presser.. Says ppl of PA want voter ID, believes ppl should have ID w them at all times"

Blegh. Hey remember when republicans stood for keeping government OUT of your daily life? Now this bum is telling me I shouldn't leave the house without government issued ID? Leave me alone.

I know he's not proposing a law or anything, but it just bothers me.

**raider.adam** · 09-13-2012, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by thoth

https://twitter.com/EAFiedler/status...710017/photo/1
"Corbett taking questions after presser.. Says ppl of PA want voter ID, believes ppl should have ID w them at all times"

Blegh. Hey remember when republicans stood for keeping government OUT of your daily life? Now this bum is telling me I shouldn't leave the house without government issued ID? Leave me alone.

I know he's not proposing a law or anything, but it just bothers me.

Yeah, I have to agree. That type of comment is annoying. Of course that is also coming from the guy who said about transvaginal ultrasounds "they can turn their head if they don't want to see".

**thoth** · 09-13-2012, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by raider.adam

Yeah, I have to agree. That type of comment is annoying. Of course that is also coming from the guy who said about transvaginal ultrasounds "they can turn their head if they don't want to see".

Man, the RNC should have a training session to teach these guys when it's okay to talk and when to just keep your mouth shut. Seems like Corbett is silent when it matters but obnoxiously chimes in on things that are not really his business. Sometimes you don't need to hand out your stupid opinions about every little thing.

Oh well, he's digging his own grave so who am I to complain.

**raider.adam** · 09-13-2012, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by thoth

Man, the RNC should have a training session to teach these guys when it's okay to talk and when to just keep your mouth shut. Seems like Corbett is silent when it matters but obnoxiously chimes in on things that are not really his business. Sometimes you don't need to hand out your stupid opinions about every little thing.

Oh well, he's digging his own grave so who am I to complain.

That has been one of the disappointing things. HE doesn't get vocal and wade in to the debate on things like PLCB privatization, but he doesn't hesitate to talk about sticking probes up women (and even then, doesn't speak about it in a way that would actually get more support).

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Now that I type that out loud, probably best he doesn't talk about important things either.

**mixiboi** · 09-13-2012, 10:28 PM

Yeah...he really trying to lose his reelection right now...a first for PA....

**thoth** · 09-14-2012, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by raider.adam

That has been one of the disappointing things. HE doesn't get vocal and wade in to the debate on things like PLCB privatization, but he doesn't hesitate to talk about sticking probes up women (and even then, doesn't speak about it in a way that would actually get more support).

...

Now that I type that out loud, probably best he doesn't talk about important things either.

Exactly. If that guy put a stake in the heart of the PLCB, lessened PA's onerous biz regulations/taxes, etc etc, he could talk about sticking probes wherever he wanted and I'd probably vote to reelect him. But he hasn't, so basically he's only known as the "guy who said embarrassing thing X"

**Spicoli** · 09-14-2012, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by mixiboi

Yeah...he really trying to lose his reelection right now...a first for PA....

I've had conversations lately with friends that surprised even me. Many of them are lifelong Republicans who can't stand Corbett and won't vote for him going forward. One family has a special needs child and they are getting killed by the blind slashing he is doing to programs in the state. Another, who is in finance and economics, can't stand his stubborn "no taxes" pledge. He fully acknowledges and is willing to pay an additional tax if there is a worthwhile need for it....like....oh I don't know....roads, bridges and education.