'I didn't donate my kidney to save somebody's life so that I could die at the hands of Republicans who are being callous liars,' Rep. Brian Sims said regarding the news that fellow Rep. Andrew Lewis or the GOP did not disclose his COVID-19 infection to Democrats.
A Pennsylvania Democratic state lawmaker accused Republican colleagues of keeping Democrats in the dark about one GOP representative's positive COVID-19 diagnosis in a 12-minute video shared to social media.
Demonstrators pray before a rally outside the Pennsylvania Capitol Building to protest the continued closure of businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic on May 15, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Democrats in the state house expressed their anger after a Republican lawmaker who tested positive for COVD-19 earlier this month, failed to disclose the information to Democrats until May 27.
Lewis' announcement angered state Democratic lawmakers, including Sims, who demanded investigations from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, and the state's secretary of health and called for"I just spent the better part of 11 weeks sitting across the room from people who would eventually test positive and decided not to tell us," Sims said."They did do some kind of quarantine. They did do some kind of contact tracing. They, I guess being Republican leadership.
State lawmakers have been in session over the last several weeks voting on dozens of bills, Dermody said.
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