State Rep. Martin Causer’s lack of action on COVID-19 is astounding. Causer is a placeholder, an empty suit rubber-stamping anything the Republicans send his way, even at the expense of constituents.
Causer equates being a “yes” man to serving his constituents. Meanwhile, constituents have died from COVID-19, now in community spread.
COVID-19 is real. Science is real. Pennsylvania election irregularities are not. Even Bill Barr, the most ethically challenged attorney general in history, says there were none.
President Trump and the likes of Causer frittered away a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the kind of heroes that would be remembered and revered by Americans for decades to come. Instead, they deny the gravity of COVID-19 and a quarter-million Americans are dead. Where would we be now had Republicans responded like they understood the moral responsibilities of their elected offices?
COVID-19 is sweeping through his district while Causer cluelessly spouts party-line falsehoods about the legitimacy of the election. For him to actually help his constituents during this pandemic would require him doing/saying something counter to the party line, maybe even involving having an original thought or two.
His willingness in the effort to thwart the will of the people of Pennsylvania amounts to disloyalty to his constituents. His unwillingness to take action on COVID-19, or even admit he recognizes there is a problem, makes him culpable in the coronavirus surge we’re seeing now.
There are 11 ICU beds in McKean County; three were available as of this writing. Like the president, Causer has had 10 months to react to COVID-19. He could have been more forthright in arranging for testing and obtaining PPE for healthcare workers in his district, as well as masking up and encouraging people to do the same. Even if he tried and failed, it would show at least some effort on Causer’s part. We have seen no such thing.
Put into office as a “yes” man, making life and death decisions or responding to a moral crisis is evidently beyond his pay grade. Pennsylvanians are dying needlessly on his watch. He is in over his head and should resign from office.
Eugene Johnson Hazel Hurst
