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Sunday, 31 October 2010 05:00

• Embraces right-wing extremist states like South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi in challenging basic health care reform?

• Is more extremist than the ruby-red state of Wyoming in refusing to impose a tax on Marcellus Shale gas extraction?

• Believes unemployed and struggling people in our commonwealth are "lazy"?

Dan Onorato has shepherded this region through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and Allegheny County is now one of the most "livable" places in America.

Mr. Onorato has delivered on vital infrastructure projects, reduced government waste, saved thousands of jobs, rehabilitated bridges and balanced every budget -- all without ever raising property taxes one penny in seven years.

From a community playground, all the way up to a massive 150-acre brownfield redevelopment site, Mr. Onorato finds a way to make it happen while being fiscally accountable.

Tom Corbett hasn't even set foot in my community in years, let alone done something to help. In fact, all he has ever done for the Mon Valley in the last five years is call us "lazy."

Dan Onorato puts principles over ideology and results over rhetoric, and he works in the mainstream, not the right-wing extreme.

We believe Pennsylvania will join the Mon Valley in choosing Dan Onorato for governor.

JOHN FETTERMAN
Mayor
Braddock
The letter was signed also by mayors Betty Esper of Homestead, Michael Evanovich of Glassport, Ray Bodnar of Munhall, Tom Wheyl of North Braddock and Adam Forgie of Turtle Creek.

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written by supergenius, October 31, 2010 - 09:38 AM

Health Care reform that allows kids to be weed smoking bums living at their parents house until 26 with coverage. GREAT! I think an option should be there for WORKING people, but not others who plan to leech off of it as they do welfare and unemployment. Again, before I'm attacked, not all, but MANY do!

Why should gas drilling be taxed? It's done on private property. If it's on public property, ok, but it's usually not.

I know a lot of young people on unemployment who are "lazy". They refuse to work available jobs because they can "get as much collecting unemployment". We NEED to reform and limit unemployment! No wonder people are holding out when they can sit at home instead of working! You have to start at the bottom, nothing is free.

Corbett is the choice for governor. At least for working people he is! Onorato is for the poor losers who sit and cry and don't wanna work. They want their live to be funded through taxes from the rest of us!

Am I wrong?

In addition Mr. Fetterman, nor Corbett or is at fault for your community being in ruin. Sorry!

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written by PghGirl412, October 31, 2010 - 09:44 AM

Corbett has a better resume & none of the failures of Onorato. Danny is a career politician & a bad one, at that. Clearly embracing bad policy like Onorato's is NOT working for any of these moayors or their suffering towns.

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written by Deke, October 31, 2010 - 10:42 AM

LOL Corbett is the career politican also.
Plus brainpower genius thinks its bad for parents to keep their children on medical insurance till age 26. He trys the old fear and smaer tatic of they are "smoking weed."
Well genius what about you and yours getting stumbling drunk.

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written by supergenius, October 31, 2010 - 11:19 AM

deke, no fear and smear. tell me why someone at the age of 26 would still need to be on insurance with mommy and daddy? why don't they have a full time job? shouldn't they be out of college at that point as well? personal responsibility needs to be shown here. if a slacker's parents want to provide insurance for him, fine. but it shouldn't be a "right". i have my own full time job and benefits, including insurance at 24 and have since 20! and i pay for my own schooling at the same time. why waste time feeding off the parental or government mammary for so long? how do you learn to get your own and survive in the real world? why are slackers and career students given freebies?! where are the freebies for the working people?

answer, please.

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written by Sparky, October 31, 2010 - 01:12 PM

supergenius, boy is that handle wrong. I wonder why you hate working people so? These are hard times, where do you expect the kids to find jobs with health Insurance? If they can even find jobs at all is a miricle. And just think, if your kids were black, their chances are even worse. We had mills, and their supporting machine and foundry shops to work at, now the kids have MickeyDees. People are NOT lazy like you infer, most will work hard for a good days pay, it has always been thus. And when I say "most", I'm saying 98 percent will work any job, anytime they can make a "decent" buck. You and Corbett, with your idiotic opinions of your fellow man, should stay under your rock.

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written by supergenius, October 31, 2010 - 01:34 PM

Sparky, I am a working person. I hate working people?! Did you read what I typed at all?! GIVE ME A BREAK! working people shouldn't have to pay for those not working to have free things! Sorry! If I wanna give to charity, I will choose, and do choose, on my own!

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written by supergenius, October 31, 2010 - 01:40 PM

Also, I have friends with college degrees who feel that they are entitled to make over $10 an hour and REFUSE to work for less. A degree means nothing without experience behind it. $10 an hour is over minimum wage and we all have to start somewhere so why are people so scared and lazy to do so? I'll tell you why...unemployment for a year. Why worry? Sorry, but until I see "help wanted" signs vanishing and want ads vanishing for jobs the way they did in Ohio and Michigan, I will still believe that people are too lazy and have a false sense of entitlement. If McDonald's pays less than unemployment, that is WRONG. It needs to be reformed and pay less so that people are motivated to find work.

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written by boldart, October 31, 2010 - 02:08 PM

1967 was the year Tom Corbett graduated high school. 1967 was also a year the war in Vietnam was raging.

Thousands of Tom Corbett's peers, young men of courage and strong character were willing to put their lives on hold to serve their country in the military via the draft of by volunteering. Tom Corbett was not one of them.

No Tom Corbett took a deferment and safely sat out the war on the campus of Lebanon Valley College.

Tom Corbett says he is proud of his service in the Pennsylvania National Guard which he joined in 1971.

Tom Corbett joined the National Guard in 1971 probably because his student deferment was expiring. The war and the draft were on going and Corbett had plans for law school which he entered in 1972.

A time line here would suggest that Corbett joined the National guard for one purpose, to selfishly continue his avoidance of the draft and Vietnam.

It has been said actions define the man. Unlike his peers in 1967, Tom Corbett was/is woefully lacking in both courage and character.

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written by PghGirl412, October 31, 2010 - 02:30 PM

Like most liberal rhetoric, the alleged "facts" posted here about Corbett are arbitrary opinions constructed on various assumptions & hold no water.

I don't see boldart criticizing Clinton the draft dodger or Obama, who never saw fit to serve yet somehow Corbett's actual service is in question? What a joke!

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written by PghGirl412, October 31, 2010 - 02:32 PM

Not to mention the ignorant assumption that joining the National guard makes one a manipulative coward . . .

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written by boldart, October 31, 2010 - 03:03 PM

PGHGirl412

Clinton's deeds now belong to the ages. Tom Corbett is the here and now.

Obama is a younger man who has never been exposed to a draft.

Fact: the draft did not end until 1972. Corbett would have been vulnerable for the draft in 1967 and 1971

Fact: the draft lottery did not begin until 1969. Corbett can not claim a "lucky number" excuse.

It is clear that Corbett avoided active military service via a student deferment from 1967-1971.

His deferment would have expired in 1971...therefore the National Guard.

Unlike today's National Guard, the National Guard during the Vietnam war was a well known haven for draft dodgers....like George W. Bush and Tom Corbett.

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written by Deke, October 31, 2010 - 03:10 PM

Pghgirl, your overruled for the drivel you speaketh.

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written by PghGirl412, October 31, 2010 - 03:47 PM

So ACTUAL military service is somehow inferior to no military service whatsoever? That's an awful big load of bull.

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written by supergenius, October 31, 2010 - 04:28 PM

haha! wow, i'm done arguing with idiots here. liberals must smoke a lot of cheeba to think what they do. sorry, i'd rather work for things in life and spend my money how i'd like rahter than have the government take more of it and hand it out to LOSERS.

republican seems like the lesser of the 2 evils and the clear choice if one wants to keep what they've worked for.

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written by Joe Bunda, October 31, 2010 - 04:59 PM

written by boldart, October 31, 2010 - 02:03 PM Clinton's deeds now belong to the ages. Tom Corbett is the here and now.

Oh, I get it now: that was then, this is now. Got it. So where were you, boldart, when Clinton was campaigning for the Presidency?

Obama is a younger man who has never been exposed to a draft.

Then why didn't he enlist, like I did? Too busy "community organizing" with Bill Ayers?

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written by John Lewandowski, October 31, 2010 - 05:13 PM

Why did the people of Braddock vote for such a dishonest man for mayor? I take issue with many of his statements, but the worst by far is his claim that Tom Corbett called unemployed people "lazy". Here's what was actually said:

( Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Corbett says a portion of Pennsylvania’s 591,000 workers without jobs are choosing to stay unemployed. During a door-to-door tour of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, businesses today, Corbett said “the jobs are there,” but that many people are purposely remaining unemployed in order to collect benefits.

He says he’s heard this from business owners across Pennsylvania. “One of the individuals said, ‘I can’t get workers. People don’t want to come back to work while they still have unemployment,’” he said. “They’re literally telling him, ‘I’ll come back to work when unemployment runs out.’ That’s becoming a problem.’” Corbett added, “The jobs are there. But if we keep extending unemployment, people are going to sit there and — I’ve literally had construction companies tell me, I can’t get people to come back to work until — they say, ‘I’ll come back to work when unemployment runs out.’” )

http://www.witf.org/news/regional-and-state/4405-corbett-many-are-choosing-to-stay-unemployed

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written by Ironman, October 31, 2010 - 05:19 PM

John - My mother was born and raised on Washington Avenue in Braddock. Good luck down there in the Mon Valley.

Dan Onorato is a career politician. Tom Corbett has been in an out of public service. I will be voting for Tom Corbett. With 3 kids, there is a good reason, education.

Tom Corbett is pro-voucher and for more charter schools. You should all know too well about charter schools down there in the Mon Valley, need I mention Propel Charter Schools.

We just had Ed Rendell for 8 years. During his tenure, the budgets went through the roof. Obviously, Braddock was no where on the radar screen.

Now is not the time for a career politician who end up doing the same ol', same ol', particularly with Drink Tax Dan. I believe that Tom Corbett will be different ideas to the table.

Sparky - Providing healthcare until you are 26 is a bunch of bull crap. If you need health insurance, please go to Highmark or Aetna websites.

Reasonal coverage is available at a reasonable rate, particularly to young adults. I don't want to hear about it. Go look it up.

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written by Ironman, October 31, 2010 - 11:26 PM

Danny O. has been county executive since 2003. We all know about the UPMC Braddock saga. In the past 7 years, you should ask the question to yourself, what has Danny O. done for Braddock? I would say, not much.

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't your business manager arrested for forgery and theft as reported in this newspaper. The borough council and yourself should get your house in order before we start pointing fingers at all those "extremist" republicans.

Maybe some of those "extremist" republican can bring jobs to the Mon Valley, particularly Braddock.

If I was in your shoes, I wouldn't be burning my bridges with anybody, including those "extremist" republicans.

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written by PghGirl412, November 02, 2010 - 02:56 PM

Boffy - It's NEVER ok to refuse jobs just to keep collecting UC. The burden of UC tax on employers prevents hiring & expansion. And in extreme situations of high unemployment (like now), we’re all paying for it since state & federal tax dollars pay the extensions. $10 an hour isn’t a living large but anyone who would refuse it & insist on being a useless lump leeching off of society doesn’t deserve the UC safety net & should lose their bennies.

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