This morning, State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler County) issued a fiery response to negative ads about him running on Pittsburgh area radio stations, demanding that he resign.
“The sponsors of this ad are attacking me because my comments have exposed that Operation Free’s radical leftist agenda has absolutely nothing to do with America’s national security, energy independence or protecting our environment, but is a direct attack on our Constitution,” Metcalfe said in the release.
Metcalfe caused controversy last week when he called US veterans working with Operation Free “traitors.” Operation Free is a coalition of veterans and activists hoping to raise awareness of national security threats cause by climate change.
“I stand by my original comments,” the release went on to say. “Any veteran lending their name to promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in the U.S. economy, through cap-and-tax type policies, is a traitor to the oath he or she took to defend the Constitution of our great nation. If someone is advocating for our government to make statutory or regulatory changes in policy or enter into treaties that violate our Constitution, and they have taken an oath to uphold and protect that same document, then they are traitors to that oath.”
Shortly after Metcalfe’s original comments, Democrats statewide denounced the conservative lawmaker, and local Democrat Zack Byrnes announced his candidacy for Metcalfe’s seat.
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Mr. Metcalf is too unintelligent to see what he has done to the veterans.Being a veteran himself, he served, but only fought in the bars in Germany. These brave war veterans deserve better treatment. This conduct is like the anti war movement people who spit on the viet-nam era veterans. Metcalf is Jane Fonda in drag.He should resign and take a course in being a human being and an American. He shames all Pennsylvanians.How could such a person be elected to office?