Great news articles and columns about Tom Wolf

[JPZenger]

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/white/mc-bw-tom-wolf-20140509,0,133406.column

" "The old adage is when you get hit with negative, you come back with negative," said Muhlenberg College political science professor Christopher Borick. "That's the standard approach, and he really hasn't done that to a large degree. He's addressed the criticisms quickly when they've come, but he doesn't necessarily at that point turn on the opponents. He's managed to maintain that positivity. "I think for a lot of voters, that's refreshing."

Borick pointed out that Wolf's successful approach has been buoyed by a few factors. One is that he largely is seen as a government outsider at a time when people don't much trust or like government...But Wolf's appeal to voters ought to send a message to the politicians who make every election cycle so miserable for anyone with a TV or a mailbox: We're sick of attack ads. We're sick of grainy photos, scary music and half-truths and lies treated as if they're gospel. Tell us why we should vote for you, not why your opponent is the scum of the Earth.

Wolf's success can't be good news to Corbett, who won't get anywhere running on his own record ... The governor needs to make this race about an opponent, which would make Schwartz — a member of a very unpopular Congress and sporting a long liberal voting record — a much easier target."

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http://www.factcheck.org/2014/05/tom-corbetts-tall-story/

Factcheck.org finds that every allegation in Corbett's monster truck ad against Wolf is false or highly misleading.
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http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-governor-tom-wolf-profile-20140509,0,6002471,full.story

Excerpt:

"That wealth was more earned than inherited... he went to Dartmouth College where he joined the Navy ROTC, before opting for the Peace Corps in 1968 and heading to India. "The thing Peace Corps taught me more than anything else was self-reliance," Wolf said. "There's nothing you really can't do." He went to the University of London, where he met Frances, the daughter of a U.S. State Department staffer.

Wolf earned a doctorate in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology while working as a forklift driver in the family business. He then managed a hardware store before getting loans to buy the family business in 1985 with Zimmerman and another relative, George Hodges. For a family member to become an owner "you had to buy from the previous generation at market price," Zimmerman said. "No special deals." Wolf, Zimmerman and Hodges, sharing an office, continued a tradition of offering employees a profit-sharing plan and a guaranteed pension.

By the turn of the century, the company was worth millions; none of the owners' children wanted to take it over. In 2006, the owners sold to Weston Presidio Fund V, a Boston-based investment management company... Weston Presidio Fund V moved The Wolf Organization's incorporation status to Delaware and replaced the guaranteed pension plan with a 401(k) plan."

The last sentence answers a Republican attack ad against Wolf - those two actions happened when Wolf had no control over the company.

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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/Factcheck_Allyson_Schwartz_misrepresents_Wolf_in_ad.html

From factcheck.org:

"Allyson Schwartz misrepresents her opponent’s business dealings in a TV ad in Pennsylvania’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Her ad says Tom Wolf “walked away with $20 million” after selling his company, but fails to mention that he later reinvested $11 million to save it. The ad also says hundreds “lost their jobs” because of debt the company needed to buy out Wolf, but it doesn’t mention the recession that hurt his kitchen cabinet business. The ad inflates how much the company needed to borrow to buy out Wolf by a factor of nearly three."

[blue neen]

1. These 2 paragraphs say it all:

"Borick pointed out that Wolf's successful approach has been buoyed by a few factors. One is that he largely is seen as a government outsider at a time when people don't much trust or like government...But Wolf's appeal to voters ought to send a message to the politicians who make every election cycle so miserable for anyone with a TV or a mailbox: We're sick of attack ads. We're sick of grainy photos, scary music and half-truths and lies treated as if they're gospel. Tell us why we should vote for you, not why your opponent is the scum of the Earth."

"Wolf's success can't be good news to Corbett, who won't get anywhere running on his own record ... The governor needs to make this race about an opponent, which would make Schwartz — a member of a very unpopular Congress and sporting a long liberal voting record — a much easier target."

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Tom Wolf's ads have been refreshing. People ARE sick of attack ads and negativity. Corbett is scared sh*tless----he's already running ads against Wolf, and we haven't even had the primary yet.