Apr. 27, 2020
HARRISBURG – State Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar (R-Somerset/Bedford) today wrote a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf, urging him to consider restructuring his plan to reopen Pennsylvania. The letter comes in response to Wolf’s plan to reopen the Commonwealth on a regional basis, rather than a county basis as he did when he closed them.
“In shutting down areas of Pennsylvania affected by COVID-19, the governor chose a county-by-county system. He knew that rural counties and urban counties could not be addressed the same way, regardless of their proximity to each other,” said Metzgar. “Why should he not follow the same process when reopening them?
“Somerset and Bedford counties do not have remotely similar COVID-19 statistics to areas like Pittsburgh or York, and yet they are lumped into those regions. I implore the governor to work with the General Assembly and find a way to reopen the Commonwealth in a way that is fair to all Pennsylvanians.”
A copy of the letter is attached below.
Representative Carl Walker Metzgar
69th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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