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Former Pennsylvania Governor Sings Praise For House Majority Leader

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On the eve of the state’s Voter ID law’s second hearing in Commonwealth Court, Ed Rendell said it is obvious the law was not passed to prevent voter fraud. The former governor also said Pennsylvanians should be grateful of House Majority Leader Mike Turzai for comments he made about the Voter ID law last June.

“We owe a debt of gratitude towards a wonderful legislator and tremendously fair and magnanimous person, State Representative Mike Turzai, because he did a courageous thing,” Rendell said. “He told the truth.  He told the truth.  They didn’t pass that law to prevent voter fraud,” he said.

Laying it on pretty thick, Rendell called the House Majority Leader’s comments a magnificent performance of honesty, and openness and transparency in government.

“Representative Turzai told us right what it was all about, to make it easier for Governor Romney to carry the state.  Does anybody doubt that that’s true?” Rendell said. “I mean, Mike Turzai is one of the most honest and courageous and wonderful persons that I’ve ever met in my experience in government, and he told the truth,” he said.

In June, Turzai told a Republican audience voter ID would allow Mitt Romney to win Pennsylvania in November. At the time, a spokesman said Turzai was simply arguing the law would create a level playing field.