Gov. Tom Corbett To Campaign in Doylestown Friday

By Jack Tobias

Gov. Tom Corbett, who is kicking off his re-election campaign this week, has scheduled a stop in Doylestown on Friday.

Corbett is scheduled to appear at the Bucks County Republican headquarters at 4:30 p.m. The headquarters' address is 115 N. Broad St.

Earlier on Friday, at 2:30 p.m., Corbett will stop 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.

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, and U.S. Rep. Alyson Schwartz, of Montgomery County.