{"id":2033,"date":"2010-06-04T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marcstier.com\/wordpress\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2011-07-23T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T22:04:48","slug":"delaware-county-citizens-call-for-tom-corbett-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Delaware County citizens call for Tom Corbett to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents say that Corbett has compromised the integrity of the Office of Attorney General by politicizing the office<\/em><\/strong> Media,\"\"<\/a> Pennsylvania\u2014<\/em>Outsidethe\u00a0Delaware County Court House today, local health care activists called for Attorney General Tom Corbett to drop his participation in a lawsuit against the health care reform law recently enacted in Washington and then resign from office. Members of Health Care For America Now, the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, and Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change claimed that Corbett\u2019s lawsuit against health care reform, and other actions he had taken, had so politicized the Attorney General\u2019s office that the integrity of Mr. Corbett and his entire staff were now in question. \u201cAt a time when Pennsylvanians, including small businesses, people with serious pre-existing medical conditions, and young people under 26 are seeing immediate benefits from the health care reform legislation, it is deeply troubling that our Attorney General is using taxpayer funds to have the law declared unconstitutional,\u201d said Bill West, a member of Health Care For America Now (HCAN). Marc Stier, Executive Director of Penn Action and State Director of HCAN said that \u201cMr. Corbett\u2019s lawsuit is clearly inspired by politics and nothing else. He planned to take part in the lawsuit long before the legislation was enacted and used the lawsuit to help raise funds for his campaign for governor.1<\/sup> He coordinated his actions with Republican political organizations, including the Republican State Leadership Committee. And, given that Mr. Corbett has been prosecuting other politicians for using the resources of their office for political purposes, it is especially upsetting that attorneys from his office conducted discussions with national political organizations in planning his participation in the lawsuit. \u201c Stier added that, \u201cWe discovered this when the Wisconsin Attorney General released political emails sent to and from Mr. Corbett\u2019s subordinates. But we don\u2019t have complete information because the Attorney General\u2019s office has failed to comply with two Open Records Requests made under the Right to Know Law by our partner Keystone Progress. Carole Burnett, a Chester member of Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change, said that \u201cThe Attorney General\u2019s office should be above politics and partisan dispute. Tom Corbett has clearly shown, in his lawsuit against the health care reform law and in other actions, such as his recent subpoena to have Twitter to reveal the identities of two of his critics; that he is willing to use his office for political purposes. He should resign.\u201d Stier concluded that, \u201cWe are confident that Corbett\u2019s lawsuit will go nowhere. So it is a complete waste of tax revenues to pursue it. But if it were to be successful, Corbett\u2019s lawsuit would not only call into question the recently passed health care reform legislation but would also threaten Social Security and Medicare. Corbett needs to explain to Pennsylvania taxpayers why he is pursuing a lawsuit that is, if not wasteful, then a positive danger to popular programs on which we all count.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Residents say that Corbett has compromised the integrity of the Office of Attorney General by politicizing the office Media, Pennsylvania\u2014Outsidethe\u00a0Delaware County Court House today, local health care activists called for Attorney General Tom Corbett to drop his participation in a lawsuit against the health care reform law recently enacted in Washington and then resign from office. Members of Health Care For America Now, the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, and Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change claimed that Corbett\u2019s lawsuit against health care reform, and other actions he had taken, had so politicized the Attorney General\u2019s office that the integrity of Mr. Corbett and his entire staff were now in question. \u201cAt a time when Pennsylvanians, including small businesses, people with serious pre-existing medical conditions, and young people under 26 are seeing immediate benefits from the health care reform legislation, it is deeply troubling that our Attorney General is using taxpayer funds\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-wN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5709,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}