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Tony says bite me.
About an hour after Assembly Republicans voted to strike down Gov. Tony Evers' emergency order and statewide mask mandate, the Democratic governor issued new, identical measures.
Evers' order marks the latest of an ongoing battle between the governor and state Republicans, who control the Legislature, over the use of a statewide mask rule Wisconsin's last remaining tool aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19, which has killed nearly 6,000 people in the state. With a new order announced, Republicans may be forced to start the process all over again to vote down the governor's emergency order and accompanying mask mandate, but the most likely outcome appears to be an eventual court decision.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has yet to rule on a challenge to the governor's mask mandate.
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/tony-evers-issues-new-statewide-mask-order-after-gop-votes-to-strike-current-measure-down/article_9c685d69-bfae-519c-a3b0-4f5de2fdf52f.html?
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)tanyev
(42,358 posts)kacekwl
(6,993 posts)How juvenile. The whole mask thing boggles my mind.
ShazzieB
(15,952 posts)As someone who lives less than 30 minutes from the IL-WI state line, I really appreciate and applaud his efforts. There is a lot of traffic back and forth between our two states, and I will always strongly suspect that the covid surge we had in the fall was at least partly due to the covid spread by all Trump's events in WI being (unintentionally) brought down here. It's the only thing that makes any sense to me. We've had a mask mandate here in IL since March 2020, along with strict limits on public gatherings, and all of a sudden we have a covid surge, right after it starts surging in WI? Too much of a coincidence for me!
Screw covid and double screw people who oppose mask wearing!
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)Assholes.