All bets are off.
Boscola was blasted for unladylike conduct in public, including talking frankly about sex, heckling a speaker at a Pennsylvania Newspaper Association dinner and sticking her legs up in the air at a concert. Her frolicsome behavior, her political enemies asserted, was associated with alcohol. I argued on May 2 that Boscola's social behavior was tame compared to that of other politicians in Harrisburg and that the campaign to smear her was orchestrated by political foes, particularly those enraged over her vote against school vouchers. My view, I noted, was shared by some of Harrisburg's most respected legislators, including Sen. Clarence Bell, a Republican, who praised Democrat Boscola's courage and skill. I also wrote that offenses far more serious than Boscola's, such as criminal conduct by fellow lawmakers, drew far less publicity.