Corbett approves $1.6 Million state grant to his alma mater

[JPZenger]

While he is leaving the State with a $2 billion deficit because of his budget tricks, Corbett is trying his best to pay off his friends. He just approved a $1.6 million state grant to develop a college admissions center for his alma mater, Lebanon Valley College. This is money that is supposed to be used for urban revitalization projects.

http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/01/gov_tom_corbett_gives_lebanon.html

[blue neen]

1. It's so ironic.

Tom Corbett, the man who destroyed public education at every level in PA, gets his name on a college admissions center.

How sick.

[LynneSin]

2. I really really really want to be angry about this...

but I'm an alumni of Lebanon Valley College and it is a really great school.

Of course we aren't very proud to say that Corbett also graduated from LVC but well can't win them all.

[JPZenger]

3. I'd feel less angry about this if the BUILDING WAS BEING NAMED AFTER HIM.

Also, the State grant standards for this program says that the typical grant is for $250,000 to $500,000. This grant was for over three times that amount.

[LynneSin]

4. EWWWWW They are naming the building after him

Yuck Yuck Yuck

Bad enough we share the same college but I like to go into Wiki and remove his name from the list of notable alumni.

I don't want his name on the damn building!

[JPZenger]

5. There are state-owned universities that need modern science labs, but instead ....

There are state-owned universities that need modern science labs, but instead Corbett spent $1.6 million of tax dollars for an ADMISSIONS building at a private college.

This was actually money from a bond issue, so the total cost to taxpayers with interest will be much higher.