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A Pennsylvania native, Corbett served in the National Guard from 1971 to 1984, becoming a captain. Receiving his law degree from St. Mary's University Law School in 1975, he was hired as assistant US attorney for the Western District of PA in 1980. In 1983, he became a township commissioner in Shaler, PA. He was appointed by President G. W. H. Bush as the US attorney for the Western District of PA in 1988, and served until 1993. He was an adviser in Tom Ridge's successful bid for Governor, and he became the State Attorney General in 1995, and again, in 2004 (42nd and 45th Attorney General, respectively).
Earning a Juris Doctor at the University of Pittsburg School of Law in 1989, Onorato was elected to the Pittsburg City Council in 1991, serving until 1999. He then was elected the Alleghany County (second largest in PA) Controller in 2000. In 2003, he defeated Jim Roddey to become the Alleghany County Chief Executive. He was an endorser of Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Presidential Election.
Onorato plans to spark PA's economy by creating well-paying jobs in the private sector, reducing the size of the state house and senate, enacting term limits, creating green-collar jobs, maintaining property taxes in spite of health care costs and investing in infrastructure that creates jobs.
Corbett lists the economy, government reform, education, the environment, transportation, health care and agriculture as his major issues. He urges to oppose tax increases, to reduce regulatory barriers on business, to cut the size and cost of government, to encourage clean energy, to improve federal transportation funding and to adopt tort (wrongful act for which the person injured can see conpensation reform.
Republican: Tom Corbett
2010 Gubernatorial Election
Democrat: Dan Onorato
