When the Central Pennsylvania Republican State Committee Caucus gives him only seven votes out of more than 100 cast in a straw poll for governor, what does Jake Corman, the current president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, do? He suggests impeachment of the Philadelphia district attorney.
As he has done throughout his career, Corman always raises the “Philadelphia card” as a way to try to create resentment in rural Pennsylvania. When one of the Republican candidates for governor, Charlie Gerow, who famously drove down the Pennsylvania Turnpike last year with a motorcycle lodged in the grill of his Mercedes 300, gets 12 votes and you only get seven, you need a distraction.
Corman appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast in December (the podcast has been called a “fantasyland of dangerous election lies”), and hired Kellyanne Conway — to spread lies about his standing in the polls? He has continued to spread the “big lie” about the 2020 presidential election. Just what the Republicans need for their 2022 nominee — a mini-Trump named Jake Corman.
As a Democrat who voted for the old Jake Corman in the past, it appears that the caucus poll got it right. In the 2018 election, Centre County voters chose Corman’s opponent over him by more than 3,500 votes. Turns out, those who know him best vote for him the least.
Ed Satalia
State College