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HARRISBURG With partisanship in the Pennsylvania legislature at peak levels, lawmakers this year are gearing up for the once-a-decade brawl to redraw political districts and the stakes couldn’t be much higher.
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Gov. Wolf calls Republicans’ Pa. election claims ‘shameful’ lies for political gain
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Several hundred protestors gather on the steps of the Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg for a Hear Us Roar rally to protest and challenge the presidential election outcome in Pennsylvania, Jan. 5, 2021.
Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com
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Gov. Tom Wolf put Pennsylvania’s Republican Congressmen who plan to support objections to the 2020 presidential election results on full blast Wednesday, accusing them of being willing participants in perpetuating what he called a “shameful” lie for personal political gain.
Wolf, noting all of the objecting Pennsylvanians were elected to new terms in the very same election, called their actions shameful.