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15 Feb, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Oh the irony. The mayor president of my hometown Lafayette Louisiana has issued a stay at home ORDER & curfew due to a winter storm but he doesn’t want to issue a mask mandate when it comes to a pandemic, only preaching personal responsibility facebook.com/16600902679966… Image
Presumably the mayor is worried about public safety, & the inability of 1st responders to reach people if roads are iced over. Last week a local Dr. asked the city Council to pass a mask mandate b/c of fears that another surge would overwhelm hospitals. The council rejected that
Part 2 of Dr. Britni Hebert
Every one of the councilmembers who voted no to the mask ordinance proposal said that they voted no, in part, because they knew the mayor wasn’t going to enforce it anyway. There is a state mandate but the Mayor-President won’t use city resources to enforce did.
Tonight, the mayor-presidents spokesperson said: “Louisiana has a mask mandate issued by the governor and enforced by the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Locally, we have distributed more than 100,000 masks and strongly encourage compliance by our citizens...”
“... Our City Council voted against implementing a local mask mandate, recognizing that awareness and education would likely result in higher compliance than mask-shaming and force.”

Tonight, he used a stay at home order and curfew due to severe weather.
Our report this morning
cbsnews.com/video/lafayett…
Lafayette’s Mayor President was asked by @jimhummel to respond to critics who say it’s hypocritical to order people to say at home for severe weather but refuse to mandate them to wear a mask when science shows it helps reduce the spread of COVID. katc.com/news/lafayette…
The mayor to the interviewer: “I do appreciate you Jim and all that you do my man.”

Okay. That’s nice. But let’s answer the question. He didn’t.

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David Begnaud Profile picture
15 Feb
I went home to Lafayette, LA. to cover a story that’s deeply divided people there: masks & mandates. The Mayor won’t enforce @LouisianaGov’s state mandate & the state fire marshal won’t either, other than to educate when a complaint comes in. 1 family is at the center of it all.
Dr. @ashishkjha, Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, said, about to the Lafayette report: “mask mandates, asking people to wear masks is such a small step that we all can take, & we have mandates that that require us to do things all the time...” (1/14)
“... We're not allowed to drink and drive. We’re not allowed to smoke inside restaurants and bars and lots of other places. So we have a long tradition of putting in what a really modest restrictions we've got to do that with mask mandates...” (2/14)
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13 Feb
While New Orleans’ Mayor cancelled Mardi Gras, as we know it, west in Lafayette, which has no local restrictions, the Mayor-President “has repeatedly refused to enact or enforce commonsense restrictions intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.” bayoubrief.com/2021/02/12/kre…
“Whether it’s in his official capacity as Mayor-President of Lafayette or at a clandestine Mardi Gras speakeasy, Josh Guillory has not prioritized the health of Lafayette residents over business interests or his own personal desire to laissez les bons temps rouler.”
You would never normally see Bourbon Street empty on the Friday before Mardi Gras. This year it’s different because bars are closed and no one is allowed to hang out on Bourbon after 7 PM.
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10 Feb
THREAD: I asked the fmr mayor of San Juan Puerto Rico @CarmenYulinCruz to explain why food, cots, tarps & other donated items were found in storage rooms at the coliseum in San Juan. You can see the report from @jayfonsecapr & @TatianaOrtizPR & team here:
ow.ly/VWmh30rwkU7
Here’s the mayors response: “Regarding the food: what was shown on the video rice and water were nor supplies for people in need. They were supplies used to prepare lunch and dinner for our employees...”
“... When it domes to other supplies there are there in case there is a need so that we may be able to respond it is called been prepared.

This administration has been in office for 40 days...”
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David Begnaud Profile picture
10 Feb
THREAD: Tonight my hometown Louisiana parish govt, Lafayette, considered a mask mandate.
It failed.
Lafayette is the largest city in LA. to reject a mandate.
@LouisianaGov instituted a statewide mandate, but the parish president @JoshGuilloryUSA won’t allow police to enforce it.
More than 238 people have died in Lafayette.
Earlier tonight, this video, honoring victims, was posted to the Facebook page or Basin Arts which is owned by Clare Cooke. Her mom, @cooknanette, is one of the parish council members who tonight voted to reject a mask mandate.
The post on the Basin Arts Facebook page encourages people to wear a mask.
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6 Feb
This is the kind of headline many Puerto Ricans on the island hate:
Bitcoin billionaire Brock Pierce has purchased a historic, fmr monastery turned hotel in San Juan & is transforming it into a private club. It’s located next door to the Governors mansion
nypost.com/2021/02/04/cro…
The site of the buy is one of the most beautiful in Old San Juan. It was there, in 2019, that tens of thousands of people packed the narrow cobblestoned streets calling for Governor Rossello to resign. The night he did the place went wild with excitement.
nypost.com/2021/02/04/cro…
In 2018, Rolling Stone profiled Pierce who went from went from “child actor to Bitcoin billionaire – now he wants to turn Puerto Rico into a Burning Man utopia”rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
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6 Feb
“Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Friday sued a reporter for The Advocate and The Times-Picayune over a public-records request she filed, asking a judge to issue a declaratory judgment denying the request and seal the proceedings.”
theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…
“In my 40 years as an editor, I’ve never seen a journalist get sued for requesting a public record,” said Peter Kovacs, the newspaper’s editor. “We’re not intimidated. In fact, we’re more determined.”

I sure would be.
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