The leadership vote scheduled for tomorrow to pick the Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania House has resulted in expressions of anger from the increasingly powerful Tea Party groups in the state.
Expected to be elected as Speaker of the House is Samuel H. Smith of the 66th District and a resident of Punxsutawney, who is the now the House Minority Leader.
And that’s kind of ironic with regard to Smith’s hometown since what the Tea Partyers fear is a Groundhog Day with a daily wake-up to I Got You Babe for the next two years.
Smith’s name is the first among the submitters of the infamous 2005 pay raise .
Tea Party favorite Rep. Daryl Metcalfe of the 12 District has asked the vote to be postponed until December so those members of 112-member Republican House Caucus who are new to Harrisburg could get a better feel of the personalities seeking the offices.
Last week’s election gives the GOP a 21-vote majority in the body when it convenes in January.
Metcalfe and the Tea Party groups are also asking that the vote be held in the open rather than in the closed meeting as is traditionally done by both parties for the House and Senate.
The Tea Party group Delaware County Patriots has called the early, closed vote “business as usual”.
Besides Smith, Mike Turzai of the 28th District is expected to be voted majority leader; Stan Saylor of the 94th District , party whip; and Rep. Dave Reed of the 62nd District as GOP policy chairman.
Hat tip to Bob Guzzardi of LibertyIndex.Com.
Useful and a good ‘heads-up’ Thanks
It appears that it is time for another “Clean Sweep.”
Hopefully Tea Party candidates will run for county and municipal offices during the upcoming primary elections. Winners could use the experience to gain the needed experience to challenge the greedy and secretive pigs feeding at the slop trough.
Let’s take our state back from the hogs in Harrisburg.