The Founding Fathers recognized a few things about democracy: Legislation is slow, and a slow group of legislators is worse in emergency response than the executive prerogative.
Partisan squabbling and divergent priorities delay emergency responses â and real people suffer. The executive (with input from the legislative) is the only branch in a position to swiftly ease suffering.
Was Gov. Tom Wolfâs response to the pandemic perfect? While I believe that anyone who says âyesâ is a liar, I also believe that passing a state constitutional amendment to essentially strip the executive branch of one of its most basic and important functions is ridiculous.