The Philadelphia Daily News
By Angela Couloumbis and Chris Palmer
February 02, 2016
HARRISBURG – The email landed at 10:36 a.m. one Saturday this month, as Republicans were gathering in Hershey for their annual winter meeting.
Its one-sentence subject line was ominous: “This is what we are dealing with.”
It was a message from an aide to Gov. Wolf, drawing attention to a remark at the party conclave by Sen. Scott Wagner, a Republican from York and self-described champion of smaller government and fiscal conservatism.
Wagner had boasted to colleagues that during the budget fight, the GOP had the Democratic governor “down on the floor, with our foot on his throat.”
