Bullies and toadies can be stopped
Talk about full campaign mode. State Rep. Jason Ortitay, the South Fayette Republican, should do what he’s done best over the last three years and keep his head down, do nothing, collect his salary and per diem, and sit back and wait for his inevitable defeat in the next election.
All he’s done is answer to his campaign-funding oil and gas masters by trying to pass a bill that grants frackers an expedited approval process, allowing them to poison the surrounding communities faster.
Ortitay wrote two inane, fact-sparse letters to the editor in two local newspapers in the last week verifying he suffers from Republicanis Horribilis Turzais – a disease that causes confusion and rapid regurgitation of anything House Speaker Mike Turzai and Repulican leaders say.
Turzai is bully Scott Farkus from “A Christmas Story,” and Ortitay is Grover Dill, Farkus’s toady. They walk around Harrisburg trying to wrench Ralphie’s (Gov. Tom Wolf’s) arm behind his back and get him to yell “uncle!” But, like all bullies, one punch to their nose sends them running back to mommy, never to bully again.
Re-electing the governor, and every Democrat on the 2018 and 2020 tickets will purge Harrisburg of the Republicanis Horribilis infectious disease that is killing our commonwealth. Democrats must send a message that bullies and toadies can be stopped and sent home where they belong.
I see Ralphie swinging his mittens next election.
Joshua Jacobs
South Fayette