Political coaching to Swann on corporate welfare

==Source ==
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/mcnickle/s_446147.html by Colin McNickle
==Quote==
Lynn Swann must also begin exposing, at every chance and level possible, the outrageous sham of Rendell's "economic development" initiatives. Billions of dollars have been transferred from all socioeconomic classes of Pennsylvanians to underwrite a mammoth program of corporate wealthfare. To wit, three local examples:
Those working two jobs to make basic ends meet are being shaken down by Rendell to help build a new Pittsburgh skyscraper for the very wealthy PNC Financial Group Inc.
That two-wage-earner family that made just too much money to even get a smidgeon of financial aid to send its child to college has been molested by Rendell to move American Eagle Outfitters from one part of Allegheny County to another, all in the name of somebody's sense of "synergy."
And some older couple -- retired and perhaps robbed of their pensions by companies that reneged on promises they made but knew they never could keep and now working at a mall near you in a desperate attempt to at least make up a small fraction of the money -- have been robbed by Rendell to give Consol Energy, coal miner and developer, nearly $1.7 million to move its headquarters from one county to another.
The list goes on and on. And this is the kind of list that the Swann campaign must make, maintain and have its candidate refer to in every stump speech from now through Nov. 7. There is not a corner of this commonwealth that has not been violated by Ed Rendell. 
==Links==
* Corporate welfare
* Colin McNickle
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