Naked Sex-Crazed Legislator Keeps State House Red

Despite the election switching the Pennsylvania House to Democratic control, 102-101, Republican State Rep. John Perzel will remain Speaker. Why? Well, one Berks County Democrat, pissed he didn’t get a leadership position, plans to vote today for Perzel as a form of revenge.

Well, okay, the State Rep. — 64-year-old Thomas Caltagirone — didn’t say he was doing it as a form of revenge, but all the other Democrats and everybody, ever, can tell it’s done because the poor baby didn’t get to be on the important House Committee on Legally Being Corrupt or whatever.

Protesters camped outside Caltagirone’s office yesterday, urging him to change his mind rather than take his ball so nobody else can play. And Philadelphia State Rep. wondered if Ed Rendell was “in a safe house,” uncovering an even bigger story that someone’s trying to kill the governor.

Caltagirone is no stranger to making headlines. As the Inquirer’s Cynthia Burton notes:

Caltagirone last made statewide headlines in the mid-1990s, when an aide accused him of sexual harassment. The aide said she walked into a room, found him lying naked on a bed, and when she fled, he followed her in a car and threatened her at gunpoint. A state grand jury investigated, but no charges were ever filed. About two years ago, Caltagirone rehired the aide.

His Christmas party must be awesome.

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