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Wagner says Wolf wants to 'run out the clock' on answers
Wagner says Wolf wants to 'run out the clock' on answers
Written by Marc Levy/The Associated Press|Aug 27, 20185:35 PM
Scott Wagner, left, and Tom Wolf, right, will face each other in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race this November. (Both photos by Matt Rourke/AP)
(Harrisburg) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner on Monday criticized Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf for
, saying Wolf wants to avoid questions about his education and tax policies in a second term.
He also warned that a second-term Wolf could go on to propose another multibillion-dollar tax increase with no notice. Dollar To Php 2018
"He's hoping he can run out the clock and not have to tell hardworking Pennsylvanians that he wants to deliver either funding cuts for 70 percent of their schools or raise their taxes by record numbers," Wagner told a Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon Monday. "The education governor doesn't want to let us know what he's for when it comes to education."
Wagner also suggested that Wolf, if re-elected, could pull a repeat of the multibillion-dollar tax increase plan he rolled out in 2015, in his first year as governor.
"Voters will be outraged, they'll say, 'but we didn't vote for that,'" Wagner said, while criticizing reporters for failing to press Wolf for details. "We didn't know he was going to do that to us."
Wolf agreed to appear with Wagner at an Oct. 1 dinner sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, but has apparently rejected at least a dozen debate invitations by TV stations, newspapers and others.
Meanwhile, Wagner insists Wolf wants to reshuffle some $6 billion in state aid to public schools that would result in funding cuts to 357 of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts and increases to 143 others, if it were to take effect this school year.
However, Wolf has called the claim absurd, while his campaign has pointed to Wagner's past criticism of public school spending and teachers, as well as his support for legislation that teachers' unions and school boards oppose because it could divert state aid to private or parochial schools.
and pledging to do it without raising taxes. He says he can scrounge the necessary cash by ending ineffective tax credits and finding unspecified efficiencies in state government. Dollar To Php 2018 , and pledging to do it without raising taxes. He says he can scrounge the necessary cash by ending ineffective tax credits and finding unspecified efficiencies in state government.
Wolf's campaign did not answer a question posed last week about the governor's education goals in a second term. In his first term, Wolf proposed billions of dollars in tax increases, a fraction of which the Republican-controlled Legislature ultimately approved, while he secured lawmakers' approval of roughly half of the $2 billion in new education money he initially had set out as a first-term goal.
In June, asked whether a second-term Wolf would need a budget-balancing tax increase, Wolf flatly said "no," although he has pledged to continue his pursuit of a tax on Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry.
Such a tax, which Wagner opposes, is politically popular and, Dollar To Php 2018 , one that would largely be paid by out-of-state customers.
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