Is Rob McCord the Corbett slayer? (Phila. Magazine profile)
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. Hes run a think tank and a series of investment funds. Hes considered a critical early leader in the development of the regions tech industry. He has an African-American wife. And he entered politics late in life, meaning he has ascended without the benefitor baggageof 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, McCords 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 problemseven ones as seemingly intractable as race relationscan be resolved, if only people work hard and apply themselves"