U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly on Friday challenged the veracity of a recent column written by the Erie County Democratic Party chairman and urged his opponent in the upcoming midterm election to condemn what he called "blatant lies."
Kelly, of Butler, R-16th Dist., however, was met with allegations of spreading lies of his own — about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election — from those political foes. And when asked by members of the Erie news media to address his past statements on the election and his office's recently alleged role in a false elector scheme aimed at overturning the election, the six-term congressman deflected and denied.
"We're at a point in this country where people are losing their faith and confidence and trust in our system," Kelly told the media Friday morning. "And when people can print whatever they print, whenever they want to print it and it be a blatant, outright lie, and then sit back to see how you're going respond to it, my response to it is they don't deserve a response."
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Kelly had already issued an unsolicited response and requested the media's presence Friday morning at his Erie campaign office to further denounce a recent column in the Erie Reader written by Erie County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Wertz, who is a contributing editor to...
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