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Tom Corbett is lucky it is July and hardly anyone is paying attention to the race for governor.  It gives him time to recover from kerfuffle over his remarks about the unemployed which implied -- stratch that -- said a lot of them won't take jobs because they want to keep getting unemployment checks. (A modern version of the infamous welfare queens.) Corbett's Democratic opponent, Dan Onorato, pounced on the remark and on Monday Corbett began making a round of mea culpas in various media appearances.  "People are perceiving it as insensitive," Corbett told CapitolWire. That's probably because it was.

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