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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 governor’s management during the coronavirus crisis. GOP lawmakers have argued Wolf’s actions have crippled the state’s 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...

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R) of Butler County is slated to propose a resolution calling for the impeachment of Gov. Tom Wolf (D), contending that the governor has “violated a number of our God-given rights affirmed in the United States Constitution.” Metcalfe sent a memo to colleagues on Friday, asking them to cosponsor his measure to impeach the governor over his administration’s response to the coronavirus in the Keystone State. In the memo, Metcalfe states that Wolf’s order “mandating the closure of physical locations of all businesses that he has deemed ‘non-life sustaining’ has violated our citizens’ rights in many...