Wolf Campaign Never Ends

Wolf Campaign Never EndsWolf Campaign Never Ends — Joe Shafer, who was Gov. Tom Wolf’s former deputy chief of staff, has a new job as director of independent expenditures with The Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA).

The DGA is affliated with America Works USA a 501(c)(4) group which is considered to be a “dark money” group in the sense it doesn’t have to disclose its donors.

America Works USA has been and continues to be active in Pennsylvania’s budget debate spending money on fliers and ads attacking Republican legislators unwilling to succumb to the Wolf’s ultimatums.

So much for being a governor willing to consider other points of view and seek compromise. For Wolf, it seems, the campaign never ends.

Wolf Campaign Never Ends

3 thoughts on “Wolf Campaign Never Ends”

  1. Well, he’s the Keystone Obama. So, are we surprised that he puts campaigning above the business of governing? Governing is hard, and it’s boring, for Wolf as for Obama. They both like to preside, to talk, to hear themselves talk, and to make permanent a state of revolution. I’m not surprised by this.

    On a tangential note, regarding DGA and America Works USA, here’s what I believe about campaign financing: I don’t care how much money anyone or any organization gives. That’s free speech, and free association. I do believe, though, that there should be full disclosure of the amounts and the organizations that give to any candidate or cause. We’re always preached to about “big money”. Well one man can give a million dollars, or a million people can band together and each kick in a dollar. I don’t care. But it should all be above board, transparent.

    1. –We’re always preached to about “big money”. Well one man can give a million dollars, or a million people can band together and each kick in a dollar. I don’t care. But it should all be above board, transparent.–

      That’s a legit concern. The flip side, though, is that with any campaign regulation the ones who like to play the game invariably use the rules against the innocent ones who only get into politics in response to something they see that is wrong hence the fewer rules the better. Just look at how the IRS was used against citizen groups by those in power.

      And invariably the rules the start simple end up being far made far more complicated than they need to be.

      1. That’s true, but that’s not necessarily an argument against not having finance limits, but rather, an argument for having a better system of oversight to enforce the rules.

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