Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Dan Onorato “served one up” to Pennsylvania attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tom Corbett.
Friday, Corbett stated to a WITF radio station reporter, "The jobs are there." Corbett claimed many people are intentionally staying unemployed to collect the benefits attributing his information to a candy company owner and a plumbing company owner, having told him they can't fill jobs because people would rather stay home on benefits. "People don't want to come back to work while they still have unemployment benefits,” he said. "They're literally telling employers 'I'll come back to work when the employment runs out.' That's becoming a problem, if we keep extending unemployment the people are going to sit there."
Onorato verbally thrashed Attorney General Corbett for "blaming the victims" and sounding unsympathetic to people who have lost their jobs and claiming they are just "sitting there," living on federal unemployment compensation benefits, rather than looking for work. Mr. Onorato said, "I don't know what world Tom Corbett is living in. Our economy is struggling." "Families in Pennsylvania are hurting and Harrisburg insiders like Tom Corbett aren't doing anything to help them. Does Tom Corbett believe that Pennsylvania workers are lazy because an anonymous plumber or a candy company owner told him so?"
Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley said, “If Dan Onorato wants to hold a news conference every time Tom Corbett makes a statement, that's up to him, if he wants to attack Tom, we'll let the voters decide on that."
This writer respectfully says, “Welcome to open-season election.” The voters will indeed decide. If you have not yet registered to vote you can easily do so by clicking here.
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