Is Rob McCord the Corbett slayer? (Phila. Magazine profile)

[JPZenger]

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/rob-mccord-tom-corbett-slayer/?all=1

My favorite candidates are Tom Wolf and Rob McCord. I'd like to see one as Gov and one as Lt. Gov.

This article is a year old.

Excerpts:

"Born into an academic family, he was schooled at Harvard and Wharton. He was mentored in politics by two-time U.S. Cabinet Secretary Norman Mineta, and in business by legendary former Safeguard Scientifics CEO Pete Musser. He made millions investing in tech start-ups, then waltzed into statewide elected office four years ago as a first-time candidate. And in early November, he was easily reelected to a second term as state treasurer.

...McCord is a thoroughly modern politician. He’s run a think tank and a series of investment funds. He’s considered a critical early leader in the development of the region’s tech industry. He has an African-American wife. And he entered politics late in life, mea­ning he has ascended without the benefit—or b­aggage—of a machine to call his own.

...As a boy, he was largely raised by a single m­oth­er. She was a teacher, then later a professor. His father, another professor, was “a high-functioning alcoholic” who moved out ­following a bitter divorce when McCord was four years old. In time, McCord’s mother would remarry and become a nationally prominent criminologist, her death noted in a full-length obituary in the New York Times. But for many years before that, McCord says, his mother scrimped to get by, living on a paltry salary... The experience of emerging wealthy and successful from a sometimes-trying childhood seems to have convinced McCord that problems—even ones as seemingly intractable as race relations—can be resolved, if only people work hard and apply themselves"

[blue neen]

1. I saw both of them on PCN tv this morning.

Most of the Democratic candidates were answering questions at some type of forum (sorry I can't be more specific about the name). Both McCord and Wolf were quite impressive with their answers.