It’s Wolf’s own money?

Pa. Dems Keep the Gloves on in Gubernatorial Primary

Actually, that speaks against him much as self-publishing generally speaks against one’s talents as a writer and the quality of one’s book.

Says the piece,

Wolf has reason to feel good about the sunny tone the campaign has taken.

A first-time candidate, he has impressed Pennsylvania political watchers with his nearly flawless performance thus far, outmaneuvering his better-known rivals to establish himself as an appealing new face in state politics. 

Wolf used his significant financial edge to begin airing TV ads long before any of the other Democrats, focusing on biographical spots and issue messages bursting with positivity, including promises to boost funding for public schools, rebuild the state’s manufacturing base, and fight for equal pay for women.  

Even if, as the article says, the 4 candidates are ideologically identical their resumes are not.

3 have actual government experience and one (the front-runner who simply bought his lead, Wolf) is a mere “successful businessman,” outspending all the others combined with his own money, who wants to leap straight into the governor’s mansion.

And as to that assertion of ideological uniformity, I don’t find it encouraging that the other 3 are apparently indistinguishable from Wolf.

I cannot believe, for example, that a labor lawyer or union official would be the same in his politics as a liberal capitalist.

I would expect the latter to be more of a bourgeois sociolib and the former to be more of a progressive class warrior.

So all of the other 3 think and feel like this liberal capitalist?

And yet the agenda they all agree on, per this article, has large items that are traditionally progressive.

Says the piece,

With a month to go before the May 20 primary, each of them is traveling the state to tout his or her plan to expand Medicaid, boost the minimum wage and impose a tax on the state’s booming natural gas industry. 

Nice change from recent elections in which the Democrats have sounded like they were running on the Republican ticket, what with all the talk about tax cuts and wasteful spending.

But I have seen the ads and other news about Wolf and the others.

The social agenda is absolutely there, with the 77 cents lie, global warming, immigration, and gay rights.

Wolf has personally spent $10 million on his campaign, of which $4.5 million he borrowed as a personal loan.

If he wins he will have bought the governorship.

I wonder how many of the white, working class folk who hate Obama and voted for Romney will vote for Corbett?

After all, his ideas were no secret when he ran the first time, and they went for him then.