Wolf is howlin' and hurtin'.
Payback will be a wolf-beotch.
Posted on 08/21/2020 5:38:30 PM PDT by lightman
Gov. Tom Wolf made his recommendation that high school athletics be shut down until Jan. 1, 2021, but the PIAA has decided to move forward with the start of the fall season on Monday regardless.
Just after the PIAA voted to advance with the season, Wolf has maintained the position that while he does not believe sports should be happening at the high school level this year, it remains a decision up to the PIAA.
“The Wolf administration has been in contact with representatives from PIAA as needed throughout the pandemic. While the administration expressed broad concern with the PIAA’s plans, including its request for liability protections, we’ve made it clear to them since July that this decision should be made by the PIAA in concert with local school districts,” Lyndsay Kensinger, Wolf’s spokesperson, said in an emailed statement.
On Friday, the PIAA Board of Directors voted 25 to five to have the start of fall sports take place on Monday, Aug. 24, for those schools that will allow it to happen. It also voted, unanimously, to allow for changes to be made to any schools that have opted out should the possibility emerge for them to have fall sports at a later time.
The decision by the PIAA came after a two-week period in which the governing body worked to discuss with the governor’s office what it would take for sports to safely resume and for Wolf to change his mind. After a meeting last Friday between representatives from Wolf’s office and PIAA Executive Director Robert Lombardi, the position of the governor has not changed.
According to emails obtained by PennLive, the governor’s office has shared concerns with the PIAA since late July about returning to competition. Kensinger told PennLive earlier in the week that the governor’s position that fall sports be pushed back until Jan. 1, 2021, was shared with Lombardi on a July 27 phone call and that he mischaracterized the governor’s office by saying that the PIAA was blindsided by Wolf’s answer to a question during an Aug. 6 press conference.
The coronavirus pandemic has already caused several schools, including Harrisburg and Milton Hershey, to cancel the fall sports season before the 2020 campaign was able to get underway.
Though Wolf recommended that sports be shut down until 2021, he had previously said during a press conference that schools and the PIAA can do what they want and that it is just his opinion that schools should not start athletics in the state.
“The governor has a deep appreciation for the importance of athletics and the role sports play in the lives of student-athletes,” Kensinger said in the email on Friday. “The governor’s recommendation is grounded in public health evidence and a common-sense reaction to league after league cancelling or postponing their fall seasons, outbreaks across the country, growing evidence of higher transmission in children, protecting higher-risk adults, and the fundamentally important need to get kids back into learning in classrooms. Every gathering outside the classroom jeopardizes a school’s ability to resume in-person instruction because it increases the risk of super-spreading events.”
Wolf is howlin' and hurtin'.
Payback will be a wolf-beotch.
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Kids are looking forward.Very happy.
So in other words...sports are okay because an unelected organization agrees that it’s okay. But businesses couldn’t open, even if a business owner felt they could do so safely? So glad I left PA. The state is so F’ed up.
And yet not Penn State football because the Big 10 is closed down. Bet PSU fans are really really really upset.
Not state sports are up.You go to public school down.Wolf killed everything else.
No hope for this nation if one guy can do something like that with no substantial basis.
The people let him do it.
Completely true, but what did most businesses do about it? I know several that decided to continue operating as normal. I even know of a speakeasy that opened up within a half mile of the governor's mansion.
It's time for the masses to do what they normally and just ignore Wolf and his butt buddy Levine. They can't arrest or fine everyone. Plus, it creates a stark contrast with bLM, when they defy authority.
B.S. - he caved like the craven wuss all these lefties are when faced with real men & women.
Wolf will play his usual passive-aggressive game. He wants schools closed and school sports banned, but he doesn’t have the balls to require it. So he’ll have his lackies introduce ever-changing regulations and recommendations that make it impossible to comply and stay open. I listened to a school board meeting the other night where they decided to open in person, but they had great concern that one person being in contact with a suspected case would trigger mandatory closing per Wolf and Levine’s orders. The same will happen here. Someone will test positive, and it’ll all be shutdown.
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