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SantorumBlogger and Republican nominee for State House Mark Harris has some big goals.

When Mark Harris was born, John Perzel was wrapping up his third term in the state House.

But Harris -- a self-styled Reaganite who upset a longtime Republican House incumbent this month -- showed no deference when asked about the future of the powerful speaker of the House.

"John Perzel has to go," Harris, 21, barely of legal age to serve in Harrisburg, told a TV station in Pittsburgh the day after his primary win. "He is out of touch with the rest of the Republican Party. I think he is out of touch with the rest of the state of Pennsylvania."

Known for his ironfisted control of his GOP caucus, Perzel is increasingly coming under attack from conservatives within his own party who wouldn't have thought of publicly criticizing him at this time last year.

They point to a growing belief in his caucus that he's too closely aligned with Gov. Ed Rendell, as well as the primary in which 11 incumbent GOP members fell earlier this month.