{"id":1795011,"date":"2023-01-04T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795011"},"modified":"2023-01-04T12:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:34:22","slug":"pennsylvania-house-chooses-veteran-democrat-who-vows-to-govern-as-independent-to-serve-as-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-house-chooses-veteran-democrat-who-vows-to-govern-as-independent-to-serve-as-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania House Selects Veteran Democrat to Govern as Independent To Serve as Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-house-chooses-veteran-democrat-who-vows-to-govern-as-independent-to-serve-as-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1795011&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The drama in Congress, as members attempt to elect a new speaker, is what most people are focused on. However there have been some teasing and humour in the Keystone State contest.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats won enough <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a> House of Representatives was in competition for enough seats to secure a majority of 102-101 seats in the midterm elections. Two of the Democrats&#8217; lawmakers had resigned, and one was elected, despite the fact he had previously been elected. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAHDCC\/status\/1590166517182001153\">died<\/a> shortly before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats had planned to choose Democratic state Rep. Joanna McClintock as the chamber\u2019s next presiding officer. Surprise turn of events: More than 12 Republicans joined Democrats to endorse Mark Rozzi (veteran Democratic state Rep.), who pledged to not join any party and to control the gavel as an Independent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs many of you know, I\u2019ve never been an ideologue,\u201d According to a, he made the comment on the Pennsylvania House Floor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/pennsylvania\/mark-rozzi-democrat-elected-speaker-pennsylvania-house-20230103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> From the Philadelphia Inquirer \u201cThe commonwealth that is home to independence will now be home to the commonwealth\u2019s first independent speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rozzi, a business owner from Berks County, is known for championing legislation overhauling Pennsylvania\u2019s statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse. According to a report, he claimed that he was raped and groomed by a Roman Catholic priest when a child. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/20\/insider\/sex-abuse-and-the-catholic-church-why-is-it-still-a-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a> The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Democrats had claimed soon after the midterms that they had successfully turned the commonwealth\u2019s lower chamber and promised to govern as relative moderates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur leadership team will be presiding over a center-left majority, and not a left-left majority,\u201d Peter Schweyer, Democratic State Representative, stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2022\/11\/pa-election-2022-results-legislature-state-house-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cAnd so we\u2019re going to be pushing progressive values, but at the same time be mindful that this is, in fact, a purple state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania will enter its third consecutive 4-year cycle as a Democratic state under the leadership of a Democratic chief executive. This is in addition to Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania&#8217;s Attorney General. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/josh-shapiro-defeats-doug-mastriano-in-pa-governor-race-projection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decisively defeated<\/a> Republican state Senator Doug Mastriano was elected governor. In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, the race for Shapiro, who had been the favourite throughout the election cycle, was closely monitored. Most new abortion regulations from the Republican-dominated legislature were canceled by the outgoing Democratic governor. Tom Wolf.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Republicans lost the lower chamber to Democratic Lt. Governor John Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/john-fetterman-defeats-dr-oz-in-pa-senate-race-projection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeated<\/a> Republican celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz in a heated race for the commonwealth\u2019s open seat in the Senate. Fetterman, who suffered from a stroke just days before the primary election, had been providing support. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/confident-oz-and-struggling-fetterman-clash-in-pennsylvania-senate-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choppy responses<\/a> During the only debate of the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the nation is focused on the drama unfolding in Congress as lawmakers attempt to choose a new speaker of the House, there has also been theatrics in the adjacent contest in the Keystone State. Democrats won enough Pennsylvania House of Representatives contests in the recent midterm elections to gain enough seats for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1795014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,4912,13247,3653,7026,5836,13248,8992,5654,4958,6195],"class_list":["post-1795011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-democrat","tag-govern","tag-house","tag-independent","tag-pennsylvania","tag-selects","tag-serve","tag-speaker","tag-veteran","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1795014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}