The Republican candidate for Senate District 48 should have showed up for a voter forum | Opinion
Today 10:10 AM
By Daniel Sidelnick
It is unfortunate that the Republican candidate for Senate District 48 chose not to participate in the Harrisburg League of Women Voters Candidate Forum held on April 20. The Libertarian, Independent and Democratic candidates did attend and answered a number of questions covering a wide range of issues of importance to the people of the commonwealth and how they would work to address them as state senator.
In the updated PennLive article published on April 20, the day of the scheduled event, Christopher Gebhard stated that he had a meeting and could not attend the forum. Gebhard never responded to numerous requests to select an open date for the forum during the weeks of April 12 through 19.
Clements said that the first goal is to get the vaccine out to residents, and officials should help those who can t get to a center or hospital to get a shot. I am a veterinarian, I am a scientist, and who knows better than veterinarians about herd immunity, he said. We have to work with people to get to the vaccine and accept it, but beyond that we have to get the vaccine to people where it s not easily accessible to them.
Partisan politics have prevented the legislature from solving many of the problems in Pennsylvania, according to Clements. I think there are too many things going on in Harrisburg that need to have a light put on it, and needs somebody to come in and say We can t do this, this has got to stop, he said.