Posted on 01/15/2023 6:26:16 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
HARRISBURG — When Republican state legislator Jim Gregory nominated his Democratic friend and colleague Mark Rozzi to be speaker of the Pennsylvania House this month, the move stunned close political observers and seemed to offer new hope for bipartisanship.
As with the nation, politics in this critical swing state, the country’s fifth-most populous, have become bitterly divided in recent years along ideological, geographical and racial lines. Donald Trump won the state in 2016, and Joe Biden took it back in 2020.
False claims over the legitimacy of the 2020 contest became prominent Pennsylvania GOP rallying cries in 2022 and reinforced a dynamic pitting the state’s eastern and western flanks — dominated by liberal metro areas — against the vast stretches of conservative terrain in between.
After voters in November sent an almost equal number of Republicans and Democrats to the state House, gridlock seemed inevitable. But in sharp contrast with the chaos over the speaker’s gavel unfolding two hours down the road at the U.S. Capitol, Mr. Gregory’s proposal for a compromise was quickly embraced by the leaders of both parties. Mr. Rozzi was elected.
The two men, both survivors of childhood sexual abuse who entered politics to fight for victims’ rights, stood on the rostrum under massive, gilded chandeliers as Mr. Gregory handed the speaker’s gavel to “my good friend and partner” and embraced him as their colleagues cheered.
“I trust him. I believe in him,” Mr. Gregory said.
Then the bottom fell out. On Monday, Mr. Gregory called on Mr. Rozzi to resign in an emotional letter accusing him of failing to keep his promise to change his party affiliation to independent and be an impartial arbiter of House business . . .
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So GOP-E official position is to permanently take it up the @ss whether they win elections or not
They don’t call the republican party the stupid party for nothing. Unfortunately, they prove it more and more each day.
Democrats are not our friends.
They are an internal enemy. In any fall in the GOP who thinks otherwise needs to be replaced.
Your correct. The same “whiz kids” in PA House Republican Leadership are responsible for PA election laws being changed into a Publishers Clearinghouse direct mail campaign. Sadly,PA Republicans have not mastered the new form of mail-in ballot harvesting required to win elections. Send in the clowns.
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