Pitt, Penn State, and Temple

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That delay has been entirely unnecessary. Appropriations Bills for Pitt (SB 915), Temple (SB 914), and PSU (SB 912) were all approved in the PA Senate by the requisite 2/3 votes on November 24. The same appropriations bills were defeated in the House at the urging of Democrat leaders. Pitt: SB 915, 114 yeas, 77 nays one "D" voted yes (he was from Bucks county); Temple: SB 914 115, yeas, 76 nays two "D's" voted yea (one from Phila & one from Bucks); PSU: SB: 912, 116 yeas, 75 nays, two. 133 ayes were needed to pass each of the bills.
A Governor who talks a good game for education and asks leadership to defeat the appropriations bills.

Stop with your BS. A "compromised" budget was approved by the PA Senate and sent to the PA House for approval. Mike Turzai, Speaker of the House, refused to bring the compromised budget to a vote.

The Senate Bills you reference above are just one more spin you Republicans like to make. The R's are attempting to get each line of the budget approved that they agree with while leaving all other items in limbo. This is NOT how you get things done. The Governor knows this is BS and wants to get a REAL budget approved not just those items in the proposed budget that the R's also want to fund.

You probably didn't want to talk about how Corbett's last budget brought the State-Related University funding back to 1997 levels. Yes, the R's took the funding back to 1997 levels!

These are FACTS that no amount of rhetoric will change.

 

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Check out this tweet from the Governor's Deputy Press Secretary JJ Abott. The Collegian opinion piece he points to is relevant to the above, but I thought you guys would get a kick out of JJ's background picture. Click on "JJ Abbott" in the note below. You can also read the article if you would like to learn more...Enjoy.