Politics & Government

Gov. Tom Corbett To Campaign for Re-Election in LV Friday

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett kicked off his re-election bid this week in Pittsburgh.

By Jack Tobias

Gov. Tom Corbett, who is kicking off his re-election campaign this week, has scheduled stops in the Lehigh Valley and Doylestown on Friday.

The first stop will be at 2:30 p.m. at the B. Braun Medical Inc. facility at 901 Marcon Blvd., Hanover Township (Lehigh County), near Lehigh Valley International Airport. Company employees and Corbett supporters will be there to greet the governor, according to campaign spokesman Billy Pittman.

From there, Corbett is scheduled to head to Doylestown, where he will appear at the Bucks County Republican headquarters at 4:30 p.m. The headquarters' address is 115 N. Broad St.

The Republican Corbett kicked off his re-election bid Wednesday in Pittsburgh, where he was a U.S. Attorney before becoming the state's attorney general—the office he held when he was elected governor in 2010.

With him at the Pittsburgh event was Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley.

The latest Franklin & Marshall College poll showed that one in five voters think Corbett is doing an excellent or good job after three years in office, according to a report in The Morning Call. That's far below Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell and Republican Gov. Tom Ridge at this point in their first terms, the poll says.

Among the declared Democratic candidates for governor is Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who won re-election as mayor Tuesday.

Meanwhile, B. Braun's Marcon Boulevard site is one of three company facilities in the Lehigh Valley. The others are company headquarters at 824 12th Ave., Bethlehem, and 200 Boulder Drive, Breinigsville.

B. Braun announced last month it will build a new corporate headquarters on 21.5 acres near the confluence of Route 309, Interstate 78 and Center Valley Parkway in Upper Saucon Township. The property was purchased from Lehigh University and will be the future home to a new "state-of-the-art" headquarters campus, the company said.

The company said it will continue to occupy its west Bethlehem headquarters once the new campus is complete.


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