State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe calls for impeachment of Gov. Wolf
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe and two dozen co-sponsors on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s impeachment due to “unlawful” decisions made during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the legislator’s office.
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Mr. Wolf’s press secretary, Lyndsay Kensinger, said in an emailed statement Wednesday that House Republicans have in recent weeks “continued their efforts to divide the commonwealth and score cheap political points instead of taking the challenge before them seriously.”
House Resolution 915 is merely the “latest example of the House Republicans wasting time instead of helping to protect Pennsylvanians during this public health crisis,” she said.
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Mr. Metcalfe alleges that the more than 3,000 deaths in the state’s nursing homes and long-term care facilities are directly linked to Mr. Wolf, a Democrat, and his health secretary’s “unconscionable orders to admit infected COVID-19 patients.”
Another of Mr. Metcalfe’s previous resolutions passed by the state Legislature earlier this month — House Resolution 836 — requires the governor to end Pennsylvania’s pandemic shutdown.
The governor, Mr. Metcalfe said, has refused to “comply.”
Commonwealth Court has scheduled oral arguments for later this month regarding the Senate Republicans’ lawsuit to enforce the resolution.
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