Representative Dawn Pettengill has made it official. She stood next to House Minority Leader Chris Rants today and announced that she is joining the Republican Party.

In a really classy move,she told the press before she told her former colleagues in the Democratic caucus.

The party switch leaves Democrats with 53 of the 100 seats in the Iowa House (Democrats hold 30 of the 50 seats in the Iowa Senate and Governor Chet Culver is a Democrat as well.) More on this development after the jump.

More.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/4/30/145027/178

Once a conservative always a conservative.