Looking back over his eight years in office, Gov. Tom Wolf said he hopes he will be remembered for making Pennsylvania a better place and for doing it honestly and efficiently.
Wolf took office in 2015, defeating the unpopular Republican Gov. Tom Corbett after a campaign where he spent $10 million of his own money. Wolf inherited a state government reeling from deep cuts and without a rainy day fund.
In two terms marked by deepening partisanship, legislative impasses, veto battles, and a pandemic that often put him in the crosshairs of Republican critics, Wolf told the Capital-Star earlier this month that he nonetheless accomplished many of his goals.
But he acknowledged that without Democratic control of the General Assembly during his tenure, he fell short on a number of important goals.
Wolf will leave office in January, handing the reins to Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s elected attorney general, marking the first time since 1958 that voters have elected back-to-back Democratic governors.
“Maybe if the General Assembly were a little more sympathetic, we could have gotten things done that would have made lives better,” Wolf said during an interview earlier this month in his office at the state Capitol.
Wolf, 74, of York County, said he’s looking forward to an “uncomplicated retirement” of reading, eating, sleeping and spending time with his grandchildren. But aside from a lecture next year at his alma mater, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wolf said...
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