Pennsylvania-What Dueling Press Releases Say About The Utter Predictability Of The Budget Ballet
Wolf's Democratic allies in the General Assembly were praising. Republicans were, well, less so. Since re-running each of them here would result in the needless deaths of trillions of electrons, we instead decided to pick two such statements as the archetype of partisan reaction. And then, from there, try to divine what those reactions say about the state of our current debate, and the fate that might await Wolf's $37.8 billion spending plan (any interior rhyme in the preceding sentence is entirely accidental). First up, the progressive advocacy group Better Pa.: "We applaud Governor Wolf ...