Person: Rob McCord

Pennsylvania Pension Piffle

May 8, 2014

An ad in the Pennsylvania governor’s race takes some cheap, misleading shots at Democratic frontrunner Tom Wolf’s record on pensions. And these come from a fellow Democrat, Rob McCord.

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