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In reply to the discussion: All K-12 schools in Pennsylvania shut down for 2 weeks amid coronavirus outbreak [View all]BumRushDaShow
(146,822 posts)and yells "nanny state" and "government over-reach" because they don't give a shit about "healthcare", then it will stymie whatever the state under a Democratic governor can do. We need to take back one of the general assembly chambers and get some control over this malfeasance of the GOP after they took super-majority control a decade ago (finally broken in that one chamber) and worried more about "Voter ID" and "Transvaginal probes" than about what was happening in "private" institutions. I'm sure whatever is going on in that facility didn't just start in 2014 when Wolf was first sworn in.
Whenever a Democrat tries to use a "tool", then the GOP starts calling up the media and spouting RW talking points and jumping up and down about "totalitarian government" and some Pennsylvanians start cheering that "libertarian" bullshit. That is essentially what is going on right now.
And this part is the be-all end-all of what is happening here -
Wolf has been forced to be the opposite of Cuomo to get anything done because of our general assembly, where Cuomo has (finally) achieved a majority-Democratic state legislature in both chambers and can blast through any ancillary RW-noise with his mandates.
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