AP analysis: Top donors in (PA) gubernatorial campaign

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[Phillyred]

TOP 10 DONORS TO TOM CORBETT

1. Republican Governors' Association, $5.85 million

2. John M. Templeton Jr., president and CEO, Templeton Foundation, $920,000

3. Republican Party of Pennsylvania, $352,000

4. John S. Middleton, former owner, John Middleton Inc., $300,000

5. Pennsylvania Future Fund political action committee, $276,500

6. H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, owner, Interstate General Media (parent company of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News), $252,000

7. Terrence M. Pegula, president and CEO, East Resources, $250,000

8. Albert Boscov, chairman and CEO, Boscov's Department Store LLC, $150,000

9. Lance Shaner, CEO, Shaner Enterprises, $150,000

10. A. Ross Myers, CEO, American Infrastructure, $132,000

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TOP 10 DONORS TO TOM WOLF

1. Tom Wolf, $10 million

2. M. Thomas Grumbacher, chairman, The Bon-Ton Stores, $2.15 million

3. Louis J. Appell Jr., chairman, Susquehanna Real Estate LP, $725,000

4. Pennsylvania State Education Association, $700,000

5. William Wolf, father, $650,000

6. American Federation of Teachers and affiliates, $610,000

7. Service Employees International Union and affiliates, $607,000

8. Committee for a Better Tomorrow political action committee (Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association), $600,000

9. Democratic Governors' Association, $564,000

10. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and affiliates, $552,000

[Phillyred]

Wolf= trial lawyers (scum of the earth) and public unions (with my tax money!!!!).

No more Bon-Ton stores for me, more Boscov.

How can the owners of the Philly Inquirer and Daily news allow such a leftist rag to exist?

[Hildy]

Boscov has a great online store. I have bought from them and have been very happy.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Here on the Western part of the state, Corbett is gone. The gas tax hikes, toooooo much damn road construction all at once and no message. The road construction is very bad here in the western half and people are pissed. Why? Because they KNOW it is PennDOT doing the work; in other words, we are NOT getting our money's worth as it will be done yet again after the plows have their way this season. What used to take me 50 minutes to drive now takes me an hour and a half sometimes more. Bad timing (or, knowing PA unions) good timing for the elections. Wolf is going to be a disaster for this state. I am already making plans for an exodus as I can't survive with both fedzilla AND a Wolf PA admin tearing my paycheck to pieces.
I love PA, I truly do, but not enough to fund its demise through my own. Now I have to find a state that will be the last of the Republic as the republic is surely dead with the course we are keeping.

[Hildy]

His daddy gave him $650,000.

[lightman]

P:ng.

York King(maker) Louis near the top of the Wolf list. Surprise, surprise.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It looks like the Wolf family, ambulance chasers and the union thugs are the only ones who want him elected.

[Vigilanteman]

Look at those lists and tell me there is no difference between the Bumbler (Corbett) and the Looter (Wolf).

As much as the Bumbler has disappointed me, he is still way better than the Looter.

[lightman]

Grumbacher (Bon Ton) has been closing stores left and right all over the state.

Decliners choose/fund losers.

[Intolerant in NJ]

As a native Pennsylvanian I’m watching this race with interest - and great sadness - Corbett’s ad featuring the “pro-tax” vignettes is great (we’re seeing it all the time on Philly TV here in south Jersey - wife even heard people in the stands in back of her talking about it and chuckling at niece’s hockey game this afternoon), but Corbett’s got to answer the charges of lost jobs and credit ratings - put it back where it belongs on the bad Obama economy, the war on coal and economically disastrous Obamacare - a Wolf win will be a tragedy for the state.....

[Nextrush]

Louis Appell and Tom Wolf are York’s best crony capitalists.....

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wolf will be a one-termer like Corbett. Of course, Corbett could step down at once and stop the former from happening. Any other Republican in PA with a pulse could beat Wolf.

[Nowhere Man]

Here on the Western part of the state, Corbett is gone. The gas tax hikes, toooooo much damn road construction all at once and no message. The road construction is very bad here in the western half and people are pissed. Why? Because they KNOW it is PennDOT doing the work; in other words, we are NOT getting our money's worth as it will be done yet again after the plows have their way this season. What used to take me 50 minutes to drive now takes me an hour and a half sometimes more.

I used to live in Southwest PA but now in Eastern Ohio, north of Wheeling, WV and south of Steubenville. I still work in PA and travel Rt. 22 and already PennDot is putting up more construction and making my commute harder. Before my mother passed away last year, she first saw Wolfie and did not like him because he "had small, beady eyes and an almost Lenin beard so he cannot be trusted." Come to think of it, he work make a good Lenin.