It is incredible that Gov. Tom Corbett appointed the father of his former chief of staff/campaign manager as the $196,700 CEO of the Turnpike Commission, one of the highest-paid positions in state government.During his time as attorney general, Corbett, through the 28th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury, Report No. 1, excoriated the General Assembly and openly proclaimed that our institution was trapped in a “time warp,” particularly as it relates to patronage jobs and the purported abuses they may engender.
Additionally, during my voluntary interviews with seven or eight senior Attorney General’s Office staff attorneys and agents, I was subject to their obsessive rage over the propriety of legislative leaders seeking state jobs for constituents and friends.
Why, then, does now-Gov. Corbett ignore the findings and recommendations of his own grand jury by hiring the father of his former, longtime chief of staff and campaign manager through three statewide campaigns? That person remains his top political adviser.
Corbett apparently has no problem using his key political strategist to help him fill top jobs, but he used a grand jury to question legislative leaders on this exact practice.
This is definitely a case of, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
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