DeWeese vowing to appeal conviction and run for office
One day after a Dauphin County jury found him guilty of five of the six charges lodged against him for using state employees to campaign during the work day, state Rep. Bill DeWeese said he plans to appeal his verdict and run for re-election.
“I believe it is outrageous that prosecutor Tom Corbett would have the opportunity to decide by himself who’s going to represent the 50th Legislative District,” DeWeese said Tuesday. “When the government takes six years and tears your life apart and finally decides that the case against you is alleging that people campaigned before 5 o’clock without a leave slip, it says everything in the world about how Tom Corbett essentially politically raped me.”
Corbett, a Republican who is now governor, charged DeWeese when he was attorney general.
For more, read Amy Revak’s article in the HeraldStandard.com