Hell Hath No Fury Like A Maitre'D Scorned

We wrote about John Perzel and his maverick way a couple of days ago in republican Perzel is a backstabber and now we have received more news on the Party of Perzel as Tony Phyrillas calls it.

More than a number of people have written to tell us their story of an out of touch and out of control Perzel attempting to retaliate against real and perceived political insults.

It is no secret that Perzel hates Speaker Dennis O'Brien and has for years as Perzel got seniority because O'Brien made a run for congress, O'Brien had the touch and the personality to easily gain friends and allies in and out of the PA House of Reps. Perzel has friends that act like beaten and scared dogs or friends that share his delicate interaction style with other pols in Harrisburg. The latter are known as the Old Bulls and the former are known as the rest of the House.

Not O'Brien, he fits in neither category. O'Brien gained friends in the House because he gets things done, is a genuinely nice guy and he can be trusted to keep his word and not stab people in the back. Agree with O'Brien or not, he is his own man. Personally we here at PROPenn would like O'Brien to quit being friends with big budgets, but anyone that stands up to the Old Bulls is a friend of ours.

He is not a friend of Perzel and the fact that the Maitre 'D lost the Speaker position galled him enough, but to lose it to O'Brien has spittle flying from the foam around Perzel's mouth. He's reportedly so mad he would take his personal Dante and Luigi bar towel and go back to work if it wasn't more important to get even. And Perzel is trying to get even.

Now we're told that O'Brien's looking into Perzel personal patronage dump and cash cow, the Philadelphia Parking Authority, has little "r" Perzel in a school girl hissy-fit that had him directing money to every corner of O'Brien's district in the primary a few weeks back to support Perzel's bought and paid for write-in candidate in hopes of defeating O'Brien or at the very least to embarrass him so Perzel and the boys could have a chuckle.

He's used money that has no source, union funds, gaming money and funds from "special accounts" that he has been building for years. Rumor had Perzel's favorite pet, union Glaziers' boss, Joe Ashdale supplying boots-on-the-ground and walking around money aplenty leading up to the primary. Joe also supposedly had Perzel's other union buddies chipping in as well.

Didn't work.

According to a person near the campaigns, Perzel's backstabbing write-in became known to the O'Brien campaign so they decided to have some fun of their own and started a write-in campaign for O'Brien to also become the Democrat nominee.

The once most powerful Maitre 'D in PA got stomped. O'Brien won both nominations, Democrat & Republican, stomping Perzel's primary puppet by 5 - 1.

Sometimes an old bull becomes so pathetic people just turn their head and look away.