Locked out of power, MontCo commissioner keeps pushing

It's been a frustrating six months for Republican Bruce Castor. The former Montgomery County District Attorney was elected to a county commissioner's seat last year, but he had barely taken office when he found himself cut off from political power, the victim of a bipartisan power-sharing agreement between his two colleagues.

Still, even as Republican Joe Hoeffel and Democrat Jim Matthews have left Castor as the odd man out on the three-member county board, Castor has kept talking, and kept pushing his agenda, even if he lacks the power to carry it out.

His latest salvo: an appearance on the Norristown courthouse steps Tuesday where he again lambasted his fellow commissioners while presenting his own policy agenda.

"I am disappointed to say that I don't believe that we can point to any accomplishments whatsoever of any significant nature in those six months," Castor said, according to The Inquirer.

Castor was joined by more than a dozen top county Republicans, but not his fellow commissioner, The Inquirer reports.

Both Matthews and Hoeffel defended themselves against assertions that little progress had been made.

"We've done some very important things in very large areas that Bruce has either not participated in or has opposed," Hoeffel told The Inquirer.