Republican state senators asked Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Friday to withdraw his nominee to head the Pennsylvania State Police who was caught on video removing roadside signs critical of him, but the governor said he still supports him.
Wolf declined in a morning phone call from Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman to withdraw the nomination of Col. Marcus Brown. In a subsequent letter to Wolf released by Corman's office, the Senate's four ranking Republican senators made their wishes known.
In it, they cited the misdemeanor theft investigation by local police into Brown's removal of the signs near his suburban Harrisburg neighborhood and four other issues.
Those issues included his statements following turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, about the role of police in escalating civil disobedience; his Baltimore police department pension arrangement, which drew scrutiny in 2007; and, while he was Maryland's state police superintendent, the 2014 shutdown of a busy highway by armed officers walking car to car with guns drawn during a manhunt.
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Maryland's top cops aren't even wanted anywhere else. Lot to say there.
ReplyDeleteWait till he goes after PA's CCW rules. He screwed MD's up enough!
ReplyDeleteSo...in all of Pennsylvania...there exists not one qualified law enforcement officer to be their Superintendent of State Police?
ReplyDelete6:16 sad but true lol
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