Commonwealth's Financial Mess is Due to Governor Corbett's Failure to Lead

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Frank Snyder offered the following remarks on the news of Pennsylvania's early fiscal crisis, due to Governor Corbett's lack of leadership on the recent budget.  

"The fact that the Commonwealth had to borrow money so early in this new fiscal year is cause for concern and illustrates the failure by Governor Corbett to lead on both fiscal and economic policies.  His economic policies have failed to create the sufficient number of jobs he promised to put us on more solid ground both fiscally and economically. Whoever is our next Governor is going to face difficult choices due to the failures of this administration," President Bloomingdale said.

"The balanced budgets that Governor Corbett talks about in his campaign commercials are not real. They are not balanced and not on time as today's news indicates. Governor Corbett's budget is filled with holes and gimmicks as far as the eye can see. He has failed to lead on jobs and on balancing the budget and we continue to fall further behind our neighboring states," Secretary-Treasurer Snyder said.

President Bloomingdale and Secretary-Treasurer Snyder expressed their gratitude to State Treasurer Rob McCord and Auditor General Eugene DePasquale for providing the most prudent fiscal rescue plan and for sharing their concerns with the public.

SOURCE Pennsylvania AFL-CIO

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