
Speaker of Pennsylvania House Mark Złoczi, D-Berks, chaired by a special session to adopt the Statute of restrictions on the reform for people who survived sexual abuse on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 (photo Capital-Star by Peter Hall)
Former speaker State House Mark Złoczi (D-Berks) said that he had wore a bulletproof vest for several months in 2022, when he was a goal of a politically motivated persecutor.
During the interview last week with Capital-Star on an unrelated topic, he revealed that he was harassed by a man who was not a voter, but lived near the reading area. He said that the episode contributed to his decision to get out of politics.
“There is a time when you know that it’s time to leave,” Złoczi said, adding that the polarized policy of the last few years made him a moderate legislator. “You still had to look over the shoulder.”
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A man from the town of Exeter, who met with accusations of offenses for harassing the science and his then girlfriend, died before the case was made on the trial last year, confirmed the District Prosecutor of Berks John Adams. The accused Stalker had the history of extraordinary behavior in which he expressed readiness to “die in battle”.
Wyzło, who served as a speaker at the beginning of 2023, when the control over the chamber was uncertain, he said that the man was allegedly motivated by the belief that the former president Joe “Biden and Democrats intend to destroy America.”
Adams identified the persecutor of Zabzie as a 56 -year -old Victor Greer, who died in June 2024, when the case was “very close to going to the trial.” Adams said that the most sedate accusation against Greer was the third degree offense.
“This person definitely harassed and persecuted him and his then girlfriend and I am sure that it was a bit traumatic,” said Adams.
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About a decade before his death, Greer was arrested in Manhattan on charges of weapons.
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In the central console of Greer vehicle, the police found a note with the inscription “I want to die in a fight and I want to go to heaven and get to know God”, and also mentioned his cats, parents and his favorite films.
The Bomb Team of the Police Department in New York searched the car trunk and found two unloaded semi -automatic rifles, semi -automatic pistol, a score of 12, over 400 rounds of ammunition, rocket and drug -related accessories, TV station in reading WFMZ Reported.
Złoczi was elected a speaker in January 2023. After the Democrats won one voice at home in the November election. One of the Democrat was re -elected despite the death of weeks before the election, and two others gave up to take up higher offices, leaving control over the chamber to be resolved in special elections.
After the Democrats were unable to collect votes to choose the current speaker Joanna McClinton (D-D-Miladelphia), Złoczo concluded a contract with the Republicans in which he agreed to become independent to secure the support of GOP to choose him as a speaker. He won 115-85 votes with 16 Republicans joining the unanimous support of Democrats.
Last week, Złoczi said Capital-Star that he always considered himself a politically moderate and felt that he was lost at a house where the events seemed to distribute further.
“I was a non -existent person,” said Zabzia.
Wyzło said that he planned to employ his speaking to adopt regulations to provide a two -year window for victims of sexual abuse in childhood to sue their perpetrators and those who enabled them. Legislation aimed at conducting a referendum on the amendment of the State Constitution in order to provide the window in the previous session with bilateral support, but was used by an administrative error.
He stood before the opposition of the Republicans, including A key ally who called him to resignWhen his promised change from democrat to independence never happened.
Wyzło said that he hopes that the State Senate would act on the change of the window of survivors in this session. The provisions adopted the Chamber at the beginning of this month.
Last week, the Commonwealth Court panel upheld the right to victims of abuse to sue public agencies for enabling their abuse under a law captured in 2019, which he described as a satisfying knowing that it would assist protect children.
“I am glad that I can look back, but I’m glad that there is not there,” said Złocz.
After leaving the office of Zabzi, he said that he began working on an autobiographical book about his abuse and his height to the speaker. He said that his chances of returning to politics are tiny, although he said that he would consider applying for a state senate if the place was threatened to lose.
For now, Złoczi said that he was doing “a lot of writing”, enjoying “possible breathing” and he can’t wait for the exit from the city for a moment.
“Twelve years is long,” he said.