I'm starting a thread about state lawmakers' and local officials' recklessness with kids' lives. 1/x
@ me with more. DMs open.
Trent Garner, AR state senator, prefers "dangerous freedom" to "comfortable safety"
2/x
TN House Speaker Cameron Sexton:
tennessean.com/story/news/pol…
Related:
3/x
State Sen. Nass, in Wisconsin, reacting to state university system's attempts to keep students safe:
4/x
madison.com/wsj/news/local…
OH State Sen. Andrew Brenner bill would ban school districts from requiring masks (vaccine requirements already banned), reflecting ongoing effort "to block public mitigation efforts of a virus that has killed more than 20,000 Ohioans to date." 5/x
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/07/19/wit…
Arizona state legislator Warren Peterson. 6/x
NC Lt. Gov. 7/x
Iowa, where the governor is “proud” of the bill banning schools from imposing masking requirements, and the State Senate Majority Leader says:
8/x
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/08/04/iow…
Dispatch from a parent in Mesa County, CO
9/x
Spartanburg, SC state lawmaker Shane Martin doesn’t like “face diapers”
10/x
goupstate.com/story/news/loc…
Texas Gov Greg Abbott
11/x
Louisiana’s AG Jeff Landry, a Republican, is offering a form letter for parents who want to circumvent the mask requirement in K-12 schools, claiming masks interfere with “religious commands to share God’s love.”
12/x
lailluminator.com/2021/08/03/lou…
More Texas
13/x
More AG Landry, of Louisiana:
14/x
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
Yet more Landry (cc @MollieOReilly )
15/x
US Rep Madison Cawthorne (R-NC) shows up for local school board meeting (🤷🏻♀️)
16/x
Iowa: Department of Education Director Ann Lebo refuses to address parents' desperate pleas to get around state prohibition on masks in K-12 schools. "Public comments are just public comments."
17/x
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2021/08/05/par…
Ohio: more from state Senator Andrew Brenner, who has introduced legislation barring local school districts from imposing mask requirements, and apparently is unfamiliar with … speed limits?
18/x
spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/ne…
Iowa: Republican state Rep. Jeff Shipley calls any vaccine mandate a "crime against humanity" and ridicules mask-wearers, claiming “this virus isn’t even killing anybody,” and that “the ventilators are killing people.”
19/x
littlevillagemag.com/gov-reynolds-s…
Iowa state Rep. Shipley complains about "self-congratulatory scientists" who "can't even figure out the difference between a man and a woman yet they're trying to lecture us and run our lives based on their health theories of virus transmission."
20/x
More Shipley:
21/x
More Shipley:
22/x
SC Governor Henry McMaster says kids can't learn with masks.
(Narrator voice: they can't learn when they're sick, either.)
23/x
Missouri
24/x
Florida
25/x
Texas
26/x
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