Letters to the editor: Vaccine advice, beware gerrymandered courts, Kelly questioned
Erie Times-News
Forget Banana Split Day, pass laws to improve Pennsylvanians lives
If dysfunction were measured in fire alarms, Pennsylvania’s legislature would rightly be a five-alarm fire. Pennsylvania’s legislature, among the largest and highest paid in the country, does appallingly little lawmaking, even when the issue before them is a certified no-brainer.
Our full-time legislators in the House met 69 days, and Senate members only 52 days, in the last calendar year. At the beginning of every legislative session, the two bodies of our bloated, dysfunctional, do-nothing legislature vote on the rules. In so doing, members cede power to bring bills to the floor to the legislative leaders, House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff and Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, and to their hand-picked committee chairs. Republicans in our highly gerrymandered state have complete control of wha
Time is quickly running out for U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly in his unprecedented attempt to get the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate mail-in voting in Pennsylvania ahead of the May 18 primary.
But a lawyer for Kelly, the Republican congressman who continued challenging mail-in ballots and the Electoral College results even after rioting convulsed the U.S. Capitol last week, said Kelly is taking a long-term approach to eliminating mail-in ballots by claiming they are unconstitutional.
Even if the Supreme Court fails to address the issue before the primary, the lawyer said, Kelly will keep pressing to see mail-in ballots go away eventually.
Pennsylvania members of US House of Representatives Dan Meuser et al statement regarding certification of electors December 31, 2020, PA unlawful actions “We’ve Identified 450,000 Ballots that Miraculously ONLY have a Vote for Joe Biden”…Attorney Sidney Powell “The matrix below indicates that significant irregularities occurred across all six battleground states and across all six dimensions…
“PENNSYLVANIA MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RELEASE STATEMENT REGARDING CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORS
December 31, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Today, Pennsylvania members of the U.S. House of Representatives including Congressman Dan Meuser (PA-9), Congressman Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (PA-15), Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-16), Congressman Scott Perry (PA-10), Congressman Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (PA-14), Congressman John Joyce (PA-13), and Congressman Fred Keller (PA-12) released the following joint statement:
“The United States Constitution is unambiguous in declaring that state legislatures are the entity with authority to set election procedure –
“Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof…