GOP Lawmaker Metcalfe tells Dem male colleague, 'I'm a heterosexual. Stop touching me!'

[HipChick]

While debating a land-use bill at a committee meeting on Tuesday night, Pennsylvania state Rep. Matt Bradford laid his hand — for just a moment — on the left forearm of the colleague sitting next to him.

That colleague was conservative Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who interrupted Bradford mid-sentence with a personal bit of information.

“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men — as you might. But stop touching me all the time,” Metcalfe told Bradford, who then began laughing.Several other members of the committee, which Metcalfe chairs, giggled and smirked.

“Keep your hands to yourself,” said Metcalfe, a Republican from Butler County. “If you want to touch somebody, you have people on your side of the aisle who might like it.

“I don't.”

Bradford, a Democrat, appeared to be stunned by the comments. “Okay, chairman, chairman,” he said, widely grinning as committee members laughed.One member appeared to conceal her face from the camera with her hand. “We're officially off the rails. ... My intent was just to beg for your permission for about 30 seconds.”“Then beg, don't touch,” responded Metcalfe, who is serving his 10th term in office. Bradford continued to laugh.

“I don't know where we go from here, really,” Bradford said.Bradford is married to a woman and has four children, according to his online biography.Neither Bradford nor Metcalfe could be immediately reached for comment.

Pennsylvania's first openly gay legislator, Rep. Brian Sims, sits on the state government committee and turned to Facebook to express his outrage toward Metcalfe, whom he called the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus's “head bigot.”“PA State Representative Daryl Metcalfe disrupted a State Government Committee meeting this morning — about a land use bill! — to loudly declare his heterosexuality!” wrote Sims, a Democrat. “You can't make this stuff up! The most homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, xenophobic member of our government is using legislative time, and tax payer dollars, to interrupt a meeting to announce his sexual orientation.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/05/look-im-a-heterosexual-pa-lawmaker-brings-meeting-to-halt-after-male-colleague-touches-his-arm/?utm_term=.c47427a597db

[TlalocW]

1. Anyone that sensitive

To another man touching his arm to get their attention so as not to vocally interrupt... Well, methinks they doth protest too much.

TlalocW

[Matthew28]

3. TlalocW

Same could be said about the accusers of Franklin. Maybe they should have told him in the photo shots to simply not touch them?

[shenmue]

7. Yep

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Im surprised he hasnt been tossed out already

[angstlessk]

4. His next step will be to try to get him kicked out for sexual assault!

THAT is what Democrats are up against!

[Egnever]

5. The absurdity of what just happened today

On full display.

Maybe I am reading this situation all wrong and Al is a serial groper. It is certainly possible but I seriously feel like what I just witnessed in that video is exactly what just happened to Franken.

[mythology]

6. So Metcalfe seems like a real piece of crap

[Wednesdays]

8. "He's touching me!"

[BlueStater]

9. Well, someone is, uh, insecure.

I don't think most heterosexual men would have this kind of reaction in this scenario.