Pennsylvania House Leader Calls on Gov. Wolf Not to 'Cancel Christmas' with COVID Lockdown

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With coronavirus cases on the rise, some fear efforts to contain the pandemic may cut out this year's holiday celebrations, among those Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff.

On Wednesday, Benninghoff sent a message to Governor Tom Wolf urging him to "not cancel Christmas."

"Gov. Wolf, do not cancel Christmas. Do not use your executive order pen to devastate lives and livelihoods. Government mandates will not cure COVID-19 and unilateral shutdowns will not create personal responsibility," Benninghoff said in a statement.

"Nine months into this pandemic, we know overbroad government orders do more long-term harm than good, economically, emotionally and mentally. Pennsylvanians are smart and compassionate. By now, they know how to keep themselves, their loved ones and their neighbors safe. They are capable, and deserving, of celebrating Christmas safely," the Republican continued.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pennsylvania-house-leader-calls-on-gov-wolf-not-to-cancel-christmas-with-covid-lockdown/ar-BB1bP1GY?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnb7Kz

The war on Christmas is back.

[musette_sf]

1. good Lord! 😲

Gov Wolf has just announced he is positive for COVID! What in the F is wrong with this freak Benninghoff, the most tone-deaf AH of today so far?

[Doreen]

2. Hey, Benninghoff!! You vulgar piece of shit!!!

If you had encouraged your followers to mask up and quarantine long ago before the majore holidays hit you would not have to worry about "canceling Christmas" but you decided that saving lives was an attack on your personal freedoms.

[Thekaspervote]

3. That is just f..king nonsense! Stooges politicize everything

Anti masker creeps are the ones that got us into this mess

[apnu]

4. Hey PA GOP House leader? What are you doing to ensure masks and responsibility?

Stop waiting for other people to fix the world for you, get in the world and help fix it, you dolt.

[TheRealNorth]

5. Republicans are arsonists spraying gasoline on a house fire...

While they accuse the firefighters of trying to make the family go without heat.

[Freedomofspeech]

6. Benninghoff is an ass...

505 new cases in Westmoreland County alone today. 🤬

[tanyev]

7. Has he never seen How The Grinch Stole Christmas?

"Pooh-pooh to the Whos!" he was grinchily humming.
"They're finding out now that no Christmas is coming!

They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do!
Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
Then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry boo-hoo!

That's a noise," grinned the Grinch, "that I simply must hear!"
He paused, and the Grinch put a hand to his ear.

And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low, then it started to grow.

But this sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded glad!

Every Who down in Whoville, the tall and the small,
Was singing without any presents at all!

He hadn't stopped Christmas from coming! It came!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!

And the Grinch, with his grinch feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling. "How could it be so?

It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes, or bags!"

He puzzled and puzzed till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.

Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say
That the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!

[lindysalsagal]

8. Word just came through in PA: Red zone restrictions

Nothing inside at all, no after school activities, no gatherings above 10.

[SMC22307]

9. Someone needs to level this weasel with the almighty pen...

the type of writing that makes you want a cigarette after reading. Christmas -- the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ -- cannot be cancelled. Just trying to think who best to do it... Steve Schmidt or Rick Wilson come to mind!

[TeamPooka]

10. If 200 people can cough in Kerry Benninghoff's face then he can have Christmas.

fair trade.