Wolf, Corbett take message to Pittsburgh area
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and his Democratic challenger Tom Wolf are spending the second-to-last weekend of the gubernatorial campaign in the Pittsburgh area.
Wolf had rallies planned Sunday afternoon in McKeesport, Washington and Aliquippa while Corbett was in Beaver.
Wolf wants to raise taxes on Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and restructure the income tax to boost the state’s share of public school funding, cut property taxes and shift more of the tax burden to higher earners.
Corbett argues that Wolf will need to raise taxes on the middle class to underwrite his education funding promises. Corbett isn’t promising more money for public schools and opposes higher taxes on the natural gas industry.
Corbett is Pennsylvania’s former two-term attorney general from Pittsburgh. Wolf is a first-time candidate who ran his family’s York-based cabinet-distribution business.
The election is Nov. 4.