After reading a rumor that floated around on Grassrootspa.com today talking about a representative from Reading that made a deal with John Perzel to flip parties, I decided to research it, and have discovered a shocker on a few chat rooms with some Beltway staffers this evening. Tom Caltagirone is indeed the flipper. As most of you know locally that for the past couple of election cycles Tom Caltagirone’s popularity has been declining, and this past election he ran unopposed. Despite that, he has continued to receive fewer and fewer votes to where rumors have also cycled that this would be his last term and planed on retiring to begin with when his term ends in 2008. So he could care less about the backlash, and in the process I’m sure Perzel is padding him quite well.
On a personal note I don’t know what to make of this. Perzel is scum, but on the other hand DeWeese is a piece of crap and we would be far worse with DeWeese as Speaker. Now that this has been exposed lets see what happens.

Source: [1] http://www.grassrootspa.com/blog/archives/12284

Source: [2] http://www.grassrootspa.com/blog/archives/12301