Meet Daryl Metcalf - the teabagger who controls the Pennsylvania Legislature
Daryl Metcalf used to serve as comic relief in the PA. Legislature. He'd propose absurd bills, people would laugh, and that would be the end of it. Now he is setting the agenda in the Pa. Legislature and has gotten many of his bills passed into law.
http://www.citypaper.net/authors/daniel_denvir/2011-07-28-daryl-metcalfe-pennsylvania-state-representative.html?viewAll=y
Excerpts from the linked article in the Phila. City Paper:
"For years, he was a nobody in Harrisburg, and the media paid far more attention to his strong-worded comments about gays, guns and immigrants than his colleagues ever did to his legislation. But ... things have changed: A national movement of angry conservatives took hold and voted out any Republicans or Democrats who smelled of moderation.... the Tea Party tidal wave sent him 21 mostly conservative freshmen House Republicans as colleagues... Metcalfe is now chairman of the powerful State Government Committee, and he's savoring the political moment: The House passed Metcalfe's legislation requiring voters to present government identification, which could disproportionately keep the poor, elderly and nonwhite from the polls. This fall, he is expected to move legislation to pass a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage; anti-immigrant measures modeled on Arizona's draconian law; and an anti-union "right-to-work" bill that Corbett pledges to sign.
Metcalfe is the House's most prominent critic of gays: He opposed Philly's program to market the city to gay tourists, saying that tax dollars should not be used to "promote immoral behaviors"; he tried to cut state funding to universities such as Temple because they offer domestic-partner benefits; he sued a gay New Hope couple for attempting (and failing) to get a marriage license; and he opposed Domestic Violence Awareness Month, calling it part of "the homosexual agenda" to support a "sinful lifestyle" because it recognized male victims of rape.
In 2010, he decided to appear on the radio show of popular conspiracist Alex Jones, who believes that 9/11 was an "inside job"; who promotes the idea that Obama and a secret global cabal of bankers is going to round up Americans in FEMA-operated concentration camps before setting into motion a eugenics plan that will wipe out 80 percent of the human population via poisoned food; and who claims to "have the government documents where they said they're going to encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don't have children." During his appearance, Metcalfe did not contest Jones' statement that "federal Homeland Security is fully infiltrated" by the Israeli government and that "Israeli art students" involved in the 9/11 attacks were now in Nevada undertaking surveillance against the National Security Agency.
Metcalfe is secretive to the point that he refuses to let janitors clean his office in the Cranberry Township office building. "He will not allow anyone to clean his office after he's left because he has 'secret documents,'" says Democratic Butler County Commissioner James Lokhaiser."
Here;'s more about Darryl:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/15/1074669/-Daryl-Metcalfe-Poster-Boy-for-Corporate-Influence-on-Your-Voting-Rights
