Babette Josephs [SEP] position held
Babette Josephs
Babette Josephs (born August 4, 1940) is a Democratic politician and attorney, and a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Josephs was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1984 and represented the 182nd Legislative District, which encompasses Center City and South Philadelphia, through November 30, 2012. She served as the Democratic chairwoman of the House State Government Committee from 2001 to 2012. She was the senior woman legislator in the General Assembly and she was the convener of the Women’s Caucus
on its relative tameness. State Rep. Dan Frankel told the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" "No, I wasn't offended. You can find worse things in advertisements in some mainstream publications." State Rep. Babette Josephs said "I was very underwhelmed. This is what it was all about?," blaming the controversy on "somebody, it seems to me, with a problem in his personality and it gets played out because he is in a position of power." In a contentious moment, Lawless told Spanier