From yesterday’s Centre Daily Times, Rep. Mike Hanna, the House Democratic Whip, expresses his strong support for funding PASSHE and rejecting Gov Corbett’s budget proposal.
He strikes just the right tone, reminding the Governor (or whoever on the Governor’s staff does his reading for him) that PASSHE tuition hasn’t, in fact, skyrocketted or “gotten out of control,” a mistake (?) the Governor made during his budget address. [The Governor seems unable to understand the difference between state-owned and state-related universities.] Rep. Hanna also strikes the tone in his strong reminder that middle and working-class families in PA are the ones who suffer most from this proposal–exactly the people who seem to have voted for Governor Corbett because he convinced them he was on their side.
I have one quibble with Rep. Hanna’s position. Throughout the piece, he makes moves like this one:
These efforts now further complicate our ability to deal with the extreme budget cuts proposed by the governor.
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