King John
There’s a million things to write about King of the House John Perzel.
First, if you haven’t already, read Lowman Henry’s piece - it’s a great article, and really expresses all my feelings. Great stuff Lowman!!!
Second, there have been several articles around the state on Perzel talking about the need for reform and how he is going to start fighting the Governor.
He’s a day late and a dollar short in my opinion. King John is about as interested in reforming the system that is benefiting him and his cohorts about as much as David Duke is interested in singing “cume by yah” at a black church. It ain’t happening folks, don’t hold your breath. How many times does he have to prove it to us before everyone really, really believes this. The latest proof was the e-mail he sent in response to someone asking for a reform ticket - he told that guy to mind is own business - too bad King John doesn’t understand that anything the almighty Legislature does is the public’s business.
That’s leaves one more thing to cover - the other spineless Representatives. Louis R. Petolicchio wrote a great piece on what he wrote to his Rep and the reply that he received.
Before the House Leadership election I sent my own Rep, Will Gabig, an e-mail asking him to vote for anyone, anyone besides Perzel and his cohorts and to push for an open and public election of the leadership. I still haven’t gotten a response - though that doesn’t surprise me considering that he won’t even acknowledge my presense if we stand next to each other. I’m not making that up either - we were both at a Santorum rally a couple of weeks ago, where he stood a few steps behind me. He acted like I wasn’t there. Of course I’ve helped campaigns against him this past year, so I can understand that he doesn’t like me - but I could care less about that. Ignoring me though? Isn’t that a bit pathetic, or high-schoolish? No wonder we have Reps who won’t stand up to Perzel - they won’t even pretend to to be nice with people who oppose them anymore. It’s rather wimpy in my opinion. From here on out, until the Republican Representatives get a backbone, I am renaming their chamber to the House of Wimps. They no longer represent the people in their district, they are just plain wimpy. Since when did we start getting wimpy legislators? How pathetic. There is more courage in my youngest daughter’s pinky than most of the other Reps combined.