Although both Republican and Democratic House leaders called for his resignation when the videos became public, Bernstine ignored them and won re-election in November with 51.5% of the vote in a three-way race.
In a Tuesday letter to current House Speaker Bryan Cutler, Bernstine recounted that former Speakers John Perzel, a Republican; Bill DeWeese, a Democrat; and the late Herbert Fineman, a Democrat, were convicted of public corruption charges.
“Sadly, Pennsylvania has a deep history of bipartisan corruption, and the plaques are an appropriate way to inform visitors to the Capitol about some of those most recent instances,” Bernstine wrote. “I think we can both agree that it is inappropriate to try and erase history.”
she stunned him with a slap. look. everybody, listen, when you have lost and it is clear you lost, you say it. these dayes it can be tough to imagine republicans in the same room as democratic rivals, how about bunk mates like in prison. that s exactly what has happened in my former state with two former speakers in the pennsylvania state house of representatives. republican john perzel and democrat bill deweese landed in prison. deweese was uncomfortable with his first roommate, former chief of staff, who testified against him. i can understand not wanting to room with him. perzel offered to switch. quote, john, i don t think we get to pick who we room with here. well, but according to the article the two did end up becoming roommate. red and blue don t matter when you re both wearing orange.
has cracked the code of the u.s. military s all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. the iranians have countered with specific information saying, for example, they know the captured drone was used to spy on osama bin laden s compound just two weeks before he was killed. and it s worth noting president obama himself asked the iranians to return that drone. we have asked for it back. we ll see how the iranians respond. the stakes in this poker game are very high. the brooking institution said ten years ago the military had only a h
military s all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. the iranians have countered with specific information saying, for example, they know the captured drone was used to spy on osama bin laden s compound just two weeks before he was killed. and it s worth noting president obama himself asked the iranians to return that drone. we have asked for it back. we ll see how the iranians respond. the stakes in this poker game are very high. the brooking institution said ten years ago the military had only a handful of these droughns, now the
good evening, i m tom foreman in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, iran goes on the attack in the drone war. the iranian government claims it has cracked the code of the u.s. military s all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. the iranians have countered with specific information saying, for example, they know the captured drone was used to spy on osama bin laden s compound just two weeks before he was killed. and it s worth noting president obama himself asked the iranians to return that drone. we have asked for it back. we ll se