.@JoshGuilloryUSA, Mayor-President of Lafayette, LA, calls @LouisianaGov “hypocritical” for criticizing the city councils rejection of a mask mandate. Guillory, who won’t use city resources to enforce a state mandate, makes a valid point: the state isn’t enforcing its own mandate
https://twitter.com/joshguilloryusa/status/1363141866422743046
The mayor president’s reference to zero enforcement taken appears to be a reaction to our report, 5 days ago, which noted that of 3,669 masking complaints received since the Governor instituted a mask mandate, zero enforcement has been taken.
https://twitter.com/davidbegnaud/status/1361367357063651329
The state fire marshal, which is an enforcement agency tasked by the governors with enforcing the mask mandate, has chosen to educate rather than punish, according to the agency’s spokeswoman.
In light of the @LouisianaGov’s remarks yesterday slamming the Lafayette city council, and indirectly criticizing mayor president @JoshGuilloryUSA, I called to see if the state fire marshal would be doing anything differently moving forward...
...I was told no...”We go based on the Louisiana Governor’s directive”
.@blevimyers writes: “@JoshGuilloryUSA previously refused to consider a local mask ordinance in July, when southwest Louisiana was one of the most intense coronavirus hotspots in the country...
“...He said at the time that his decision was “based on the information I’m getting on the medical task force,” referring to a panel of local public health experts that he convened. But Guillory later acknowledged that he had never consulted the panel on a local mask mandate.”
I’ve heard from dozens of people in Lafayette, since we aired our report on Monday, who made claims similar to this
https://twitter.com/kev1484947/status/1363214950030848000
Flashback: last fall the Mayor President of Lafayette notified a couple legislators and the Louisiana Fire Marshal, in a text chain, that he wasn’t going to use city resources to enforce state mandates. theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/…
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