Coup d'Etat in Berks County

Reading, Pa. (Humor) With County Commissioner Chair Judy Schwank away in Washington the Berks County Commissioners found themselves in a political upheaval yesterday. Commissioner Tom Gajewski, who was out last week and was unable to vote on approving that week's meeting minutes. With only Republican Mark Scott then able to do so he announced a takeover. Saying "things would be much easier if this were a dictatorship and I was the dictator" he proceeded to stage an old fashioned coup d'etat.

He issued a decree approving the minutes and then proceeded to announce several new appointments to various boards around the County, finalizing each with a special "signing statement." The entire coup was rather bloodless except for the damage done to a few Keith Haring art pieces on display at the Reading Public Museum.

Once Commissioners Schwank and Gajewski returned the County government back to the normal order of things a Haring mural was draped from the side of the Services Center and Mr. Scott was seen leaving for the nearest hotel with his assistant.