Yesterday, State Representative Josh Shapiro called for Bill DeWeese to resign his post as House majority leader. DeWeese presided over the Democratic Caucus during the period where 12 staffers, including his own chief of staff, were alleged to have used state taxpayer funds for political purposes. Shapiro called for this resignation in unusually blunt terms saying "We need leaders who are committed to transformational reform. We need a monumental shift, and we need it now. We can't do better, at least in our caucus, until we dedicate ourselves to a new direction."