This just in - Gov. Ed Rendell considers this headline a personal affront. He has launched a $40 million ad campaign promoting Pennsylvania and SE PA in particular as the most corrupt.
‘Baltimore threw down the gauntlet and Pennsylvania must respond,’ said the governor.
Rendell said details would be forthcoming but pointed to a corruption pilot program already in place: ‘Look at the I-80 corridor. It was a federal Interstate freeway but we explored ways to make it a toll road. The tolls would go in our pockets and of course we would award the operation of the toll collections and the road contracts to the highest bidder. With that kind of transparent wheeling and dealing how can Baltimore make any sort of claim?’
Baltimore City Hall spent almost a million dollars a few years ago for an advertising campaign to promote tourism, which used the slogan “get in on it.”
Now we know exactly what they were advertising: deal making and corruption.