Thread by @StLukesAnita

🧵 CEOs of many of Idaho’s largest employers, representing nearly 40,000 employees, issued the following statement regarding legislative efforts to end the federal emergency declaration,
@StLukesHealth included:

2/ @GovernorLittle issued a stark warning about efforts taking place in the Idaho Legislature to rescind the federal emergency declaration for Idaho’s coronavirus response. We join him in opposition of this effort and share his concern for the grave consequences it would have...

3/ ...for Idaho businesses and our employees. We all want to do something - take some action - to move us closer to the normalcy we long for. But this legislation, rather than jumpstarting that transition, runs the risk of causing Idaho companies to fall behind our neighbors...

4/ ...and industry peers in our recovery efforts. Many Idaho businesses continue to provide critical services, products, food & jobs to our communities through these difficult times...

5/ ...But the only way our companies are able to do that is by staying focused on supporting the health & safety of our employees. Resources provided by the federal emergency declaration help us do that, & we’re continuing to look to those resources as we plan for vaccinations...

6/ ...and economic recovery throughout our state. The declaration does not shut us down or take away our rights. In fact, the federal support helps keep us open and forging our own path toward recovery...

7/ ... We all want the pandemic to be over, but removing the emergency declaration and the federal support that comes with it will not make that happen...

8/ ... As we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, we join Governor Little in asking our legislature to stay the course and keep the structures in place that can help our Idaho businesses, the people they employ, and the families that depend on them.” #idleg #idpol

9/ Signed:
Chris Roth, President & CEO, @StLukesHealth
Garrett Lofto, President & CEO, @SimplotCompany
Lisa Grow, President & CEO, @idahopower
Odette Bolano, President & CEO, @SaintAlsHealth
Sanjay Mehrotra, President & CEO, @MicronTech
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10/ ...
Bradley Wiskirchen, CEO, @KountInc
Charlene Maher, President & CEO, @bluecrossidaho
George Mulhern, CEO & Chairman, @cradlepoint
Nate Jorgensen, CEO, @Boise_Cascade

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