Republicans eating their own in Pennsylvania

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-33/1134484146170560.xml&storylist=penn

Jeff Habay, 39, a six-term Republican lawmaker from Allegheny County, will lose his state pension and could be removed from office by the state Legislature because of the felony conviction for conflict of interest.

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After the verdict, Habay said the case was the result of a political witchhunt by U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum and former Allegheny County executive Jim Roddey, both Republicans.

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Habay said he believes Santorum and Roddey were behind the investigation, but he did not elaborate.

Santorum's office did not return a phone message.

"The sooner Jeff Habay is out of the state Legislature, the better the state Legislature and the citizens of his district will be," Roddey said Tuesday.

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Habay intends to appeal. He also faces a second trial next year on 21 counts that allege he concocted a story about receiving a suspicious white powder in the mail and directed his staff to investigate his adversaries on state time.

Gotta love a little GOP drama in the morning.

Even by Republican standards.

In the article it talks about how he has always won by such a huge margin, even when he had opposition. Do Pennsylvania people keep him around for comic relief?

hopefully, lots of sequels.

is toast in the US Senate. He needs a job so it appears his next move will be State Senate...

Not because he's a Pub or that there's yet another corrupt politician, but when I lied in Pgh, he would have been my State Rep. He graduated from Fox Chapel HS 2 years before my youngest son, his brother is a Commissioner in O'Hara twp. where many, many of my friends live, he's a member of the Elks in Etna and my husband was a member there too.

I guess it sounds stupid and naive, but when one of the crooks is that close to home, it sends a shock wave up my spine!

I love it.

Bring it on!