Candidate slams Perzel for holding golf fundraiser on 9/11 anniversary

Democratic state House challenger

Rich Costello

yesterday slammed state Rep.

John Perzel

for what he calls "the height of arrogance and insensitivity."

» READ MORE: Today, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Perzel will host a fundraising golf outing at the Island Green Country Club on Red Lion Road.

"Once again, Mr. Perzel puts himself above our constituents and it now seems, the victims of 9/11 too," says Costello, who spent 34 years as a Philadelphia police officer and later ran the local Fraternal Order of Police.

Costello will attend an interfaith 9/11 memorial tonight co-hosted by Maternity B.V.M. Church (9201 Old Bustleton) and the nearby Temple Beth Ami synogogue. Service begins at 7 at the church and a candlelight vigil march will depart from there. Perzel was invited to the event but will not attend. Our calls to staffers at Perzel's campaign and his legislative office yesterday about the fundraiser, which will cost supporters $250-$500 to attend, were not returned.