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RandySF

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Sat Feb 4, 2023, 02:03 AM Feb 2023

Pa. GOP House leader irate after staffer locked out of his office, accuses Speaker Rozzi of 'breach

HARRISBURG — The partisan rancor that has left the Pennsylvania House of Representatives essentially on lockdown is showing no letup.

The House chamber has been locked up. The speaker’s office doors were locked on Thursday, and now a House staffer has been locked out of his office.

Without advance notice, Pennsylvania House Speaker Mark Rozzi had the locks changed on doors to an office suite occupied by House Republican staffers after hours on Tuesday as Mr. Rozzi staked the speaker’s claim to that space on the Capitol’s fifth floor.

This has left House GOP Leader Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County irate. On Thursday, he sent letters to Mr. Rozzi, Gov. Josh Shapiro and House Chief Clerk Brooke Wheeler demanding answers.

In addition, he said that this latest “breach of trust” on top of “broken promises” make Mr. Rozzi unworthy to serve as the chamber’s presiding officer.

Mr. Rozzi, a Democrat from Berks County, defended his decision to claim that office suite that he said should have been vacated by the GOP leader’s chief of staff Jake Smeltz when Mr. Cutler’s term as speaker ended on Nov. 30.




https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2023/02/03/pennsylvania-house-of-representatives-mark-rozzi-bryan-cutler-jake-smeltz-locks/stories/202302030099?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675487172

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Pa. GOP House leader irate after staffer locked out of his office, accuses Speaker Rozzi of 'breach (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2023 OP
Ha HA! druidity33 Feb 2023 #1

druidity33

(6,435 posts)
1. Ha HA!
Sat Feb 4, 2023, 07:57 AM
Feb 2023

I'm sure if the tables were turned the Rs would very much insist it was in THEIR rights to take that area over.

Losers fighting over office space.



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