Todd Bartley, TalkWilliamsport.com
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On Wednesday afternoon, Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano was denied access to view the massive PPE stockpile at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg.
Multiple attempts were made by Senator Mastriano to gain access by contacting Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding and PEMA Director Randy Penfield, to no avail.
Mastriano serves on the PA Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.
Photo: COVID-19 relief supplies sit idle inside the PA Farm Show Complex
Mastriano inquired after the explosive allegations and photos emerged in “WHISTELBLOWER: COVID-19 Stockpile sits idle while demand for supplies surges”.
Instead, Shannon Powers, Press Secretary for the PA Department of Agriculture sent an email to TalkWilliamsport.com “Just to confirm, a tour of the Farm Show Complex will not be possible today. The complex is closed to the public, and we have not done in-person media interviews of any kind for several months. We plan to host media tours sometime later this year when renovations to the complex are complete, and if health and safety considerations permit.”
When Powers says, “later this year when renovations to the complex are complete, and if health and safety considerations permit”; does that mean the construction crews are not members of the general public?
Does that mean, they too are denied access to the PPE stockpile inside the Farm Show Complex?
Why all the secrecy surrounding the PPE stockpile at the Farm Show Complex by the Wolf administration?
Photo: COVID-19 relief supplies sit idle inside the PA Farm Show Complex
Senator Mastriano went on the record exclusively with Todd Bartley of TalkWilliamsport.com after being denied access after waiting nearly two hours for a response from members of the Wolf Administration with oversight of the PPE stockpile as well as the Farm Show Complex.
Sen. Mastriano at PA Farm Show Complex and Expo Center.
Messages sent to the press offices of Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam have thus far gone unanswered.
When contacted for this story fellow PA Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee member, State Senator Gene Yaw declined comment; but sent word “we shared your article with our Emergency Preparedness Committee.”
That segment followed the bombshell disclosures made by a WHISTLEBLOWER who provided the photos of the growing PPE stockpile at the Farm Show Complex.
This is a developing story on TalkWilliamsport.com.
