Are There Innocents in Harrisburg?
September 28th, 2008 | by BGuzzardi |
Bongusgate, Republicans, Representative. John Perzel & Aristotle computer contract – Innocents in Harrisburg?
$1.8 million dollars of Pennsylvania Taxpayer money was used by Republican House Caucus to purchase a sophisticated computer system from Aristotle, Inc., a Washington, D.C. data management and processing company with a national reputation for quality. Pa. House GOP’s use of computer investigated By Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Friday, September 12, 2008
Then Republican Speaker of the House John Perzel, (Philadelphia -172) and his staff authorized and negotiated this contract. Republicans held majority in the House from 1994 to 2006 when majority shifted 102 to 101 to Democrats. Representative Bill DeWeese (Greene – 50th) had been Speaker of the House from 1992 to 1994 and Democratic House Minority Leader from 1994 to 2006 when he became Majority Leader. During this entire period, neither party complained about the use of taxpayer money for private, partisan, political campaigns and the House Caucus spending, to this very moment, remains hidden and obscure.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s very factual, detailed and specific, news article reports the contents of this contract and it does appear to me very, very similar to what the House Democratic Caucus, Team Bonusgate, did. In both cases, state taxpayers paid millions of dollars, without their knowledge or consent, for partisan political work, almost on behalf of very entrenched Harrisburg Incumbents, the Harrisburg Political Class.
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