Savannah Georgia's Mayor speaks on Kemp's lawsuit against Mayors.

[KentuckyWoman]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/16/892034469/savannah-ga-mayor-responds-to-kemps-order-overriding-local-mask-mandates

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It's not really been hard to enforce because, again, our goal here was compliance, not enforcement. So we've given out over a thousand masks. And anyone who wanted a mask - before we would write a ticket for anyone, we would offer them a mask. And so our visitors, our citizens gratefully took a mask. And therefore, no ticket was required.

The goal of this, again, is to have people to wear a mask. And again, we have over 15 million visitors come to our beautiful city every year. Some know. Some don't know. And again, our role is to make sure we educate and make sure we provide a mask so they are in compliance.

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On July the 2, Governor Kemp said himself that he was not going to stand in the way of Savannah's mandatory mask order. And yet, here we are two weeks later, and he's issuing something specifically - and the only one in the country that specifically denies cities and counties the ability to be able to take care of their citizens. And to me, that's unacceptable.

[Sherman A1]

1. I would hope that the mayors countersue

the Governor for being a horse's behind.

[crickets]

2. Thank you, Mayor Van Johnson. More GA mayors need to speak up as well.

Over and over, Johnson points to science as the reason Savannah will not back down on its mask policy. If only more of our government officials were this sensible.

So again, I think for us, we are in the fight for our lives. We are trying to get past COVID-19. It's going to take all of us firing on all cylinders, working together to be able to make this happen. And we know from the science - from the CDC, which is located in Atlanta - that wearing masks is a part of this three-pronged approach to be able to slow down the spread of this virus.

Boom, there is is. This should be the message all over the country, from top to bottom. It's just not that hard.