Posted on 06/16/2020 1:33:53 PM PDT by lightman
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe has introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of Gov. Tom Wolf.
Metcalfe, a Butler County Republican, introduced the resolution Tuesday. The resolution has 24 co-sponsors.
Republican lawmakers, who control the General Assembly, have clashed with the Democratic governors management during the coronavirus crisis. GOP lawmakers have argued Wolfs actions have crippled the states economy and they say he has regularly exceeded his authority.
While these are certainly unprecedented and chaotic times, Gov. Tom Wolf must be held accountable for his actions that have harmed so many of our citizens and violated so many of our rights," Metcalfe said in a statement released Tuesday. Wolfs unconstitutional dictates and Orwellian overreach into our lives and the marketplace has caused immeasurable harm and hardship for far more Pennsylvanians than the virus!"
The resolutions title: A Resolution impeaching Thomas W. Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, for misbehavior in office.
Metcalfe began circulating a memo in May to draw support for impeaching Wolf.
Other state lawmakers signing on as sponsors of the resolution include Reps. Russ Diamond, R-Lebanon; Rob Kauffman, R-Franklin; Dawn W. Keefer, R-York; Mark K. Keller, R-Cumberland/Perry; Dan Moul, R-Adams; Francis Ryan, R-Lebanon; and David H. Zimmerman, R-Lancaster.
Bill Patton, a House Democratic spokesman, defended Wolfs leadership in the crisis.
The governors doing the job he was elected to do and the last thing the state needs right now is a circus sideshow," Patton said. "House Democrats will give this political stunt no more attention that it deserves.
A request for comment from the governors office wasnt immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.
Polls have shown strong support for Wolfs leadership during the pandemic, even as he has imposed measures such as shutting down businesses and schools to stem the spread of the virus.
Statewide, nearly 80,000 people have contracted the coronavirus and more than 6,200 deaths have been tied to COVID-19, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. More than two-thirds of those deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes. The number of new cases has dropped in recent weeks, which Wolf has attributed to people to practicing social distancing and taking the virus seriously.
Nonetheless, Metcalfe said the deaths in nursing homes and the loss of more than 2 million jobs under Wolfs administration are indefensible. His resolution includes five articles calling for Wolfs removal from office.
Last week, the GOP-controlled General Assembly passed a resolution that directs Wolf to issue a proclamation or executive order to end the coronavirus disaster emergency. Wolf has vowed to veto the measure, but Republican lawmakers argue he lacks the authority to do so. The battle is expected to be decided in the courts.
The measure comes as Wolf has gradually eased coronavirus restrictions in recent weeks. Currently, there are 46 counties in the green phase, the lease restrictive in the Wolf administrations plans to reopen the state.
On Friday, Dauphin County and seven other counties move into the green phase.
In Pennsylvania, the last person to be impeached was Supreme Court Justice Rolf Larsen, who was convicted of conspiring to obtain drugs via fraudulent prescriptions. That was in 1994, with the next most recent attempt at impeachment dating back to the 1930s.
(About the only type Tommie the Commie will allow us to hae these days).
Should have been done in April!
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Good, take dewine too.
Where do I sign?
I wonder how many rioters will flock to Governor Wolf’s defense by threatening to destroy if he gets charged?
‘State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe has introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of Gov. Tom Wolf.’
wonderful...’cept it won’t happen...
The establishment hates Metcalfe. He keeps getting primary opponents who are frauds with an R beside the names.
Quote: “Polls have shown strong support for Wolfs leadership during the pandemic, even as he has imposed measures such as shutting down businesses and schools to stem the spread of the virus.”
During the pandemic we were ruled by tyrants relying on faulty “models” to justify their actions. When confronted with the harm they were causing, they eagerly relied on fake polls to tell themselves that everyone loved them.
In NJ, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who supports Murphy to the degree that the fake University polls (Monmouth and Rutgers) claimed to show. I live with liberals in my neighborhood and they don’t even support what Murphy has done. Teachers who are normally lock step democrat voters are losing their jobs. If Murphy has the support they claim, I sure would like to know where it is coming from.
Over in PA, it is a regional thing. One doesn’t have to get even that far outside of Philly to feel the anti-Wold sentiment.
Wolf should absolutely be impeached and it should not be for any other reason other than exceeding his authority and trying to ignore the state legislature. He can be held to account for his handling of the virus at the polls (even though he isn’t on the ballots). But what can never be tolerated is for a governor to utterly ignore the legislature and for that governor to declare him or herself to be a ruler by executive order.
Still yellow here.
I hope Wolf gets the boot, and takes his he-bitch with him.
‘Still yellow here.’
rumor has it until the 26th of June...which would require an announcement this Friday...
I hope you’re right.
I’m in the worst spot I think.
Right on the Chester Co/DelCo line.
“he-bitch” Lol!
Wait, school teachers in New Jersey lost their jobs? Why?!!! Aren’t they considered important? I am just trying to get more details so as to not get really mad without good reason.
This is all political.
I’ve posted this before, but I am totally convinced that Lancaster County will be dead last for no other reason than to punish the residents for having tipped the popular vote to DJT in 2016 which gave him 21 EVs and therefore the White House.
As FReeper Grampa Dave so eloquently puts it, “this was NEVER about ‘your health’”.
I need to remind you of PA Ping Rules:
Any picture of the she/he/it must immediately be followed with the only proven eyewash and antidote: one or more pictures of our lovely FLOTUS.
It’s an apt description. :)
Yup. The Amish voted for Trump, and so they must be punished.
And a funny one.
Thank you.
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