Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne's loses appeal, fined for violating U.S. House's mask rule

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Beth Van Duyne will have to pay a $500 fine for refusing to wear a mask during a May protest on the House’s mask rules.

Seven Republicans were issued warnings for violating the mask rules, while three Republicans, including Van Duyne, were fined $500 for violating the mask rules a second time. Van Duyne, of Irving, had previously violated the mask rules on May 13.

At issue was the chamber’s requirement that all members wear masks regardless of vaccination status. After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated guidance on May 13 to allow vaccinated people to go maskless in most spaces, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., kept the chamber’s mask rules, saying it was unclear how many members had been vaccinated.

“It’s evident now that enforcement of any mask rule has become a partisan, political issue, rather than one grounded in science,” Van Duyne wrote in her appeal.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-rep-beth-van-duyne-191355640.html

I'm sure she can afford it.

[brush]

1. She should talk. Weren't republicans the ones refusing to wear masks?

IIRC that's called being partisan.

[7wo7rees]

2. Bethie is just another embarrassment for Texas.

She is useless. She came to be with the "Tea Party".
Bethie was a disaster as Mayor of Irving but she is supported by big money, plus she's blonde.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Plus a staffer offed himself outside her home

Wonder what that was about?

[7wo7rees]

4. Yeah, there was that!! Talking big money here.

I was told a number of years ago that Bethie's track was to make it to Congress. This was told to me by someone who knew her well. She was a commissioner on Irving City Council and had been involved in politics since before Bethie was born.
There was a gentleman at every council meeting texting her what to say and do. Bethie got away with most of it.
We stopped them from drilling/fracking on the edge of the Trinity River. I know Bethie well!!

[MagickMuffin]

5. Par for the GQP course

Do you know the man texting her?

I'm over here in Tarrant County. I seem to remember her from her time spent in office here.

[7wo7rees]

7. Regional Director of HUD...... I think.

No, I don't know the man but the council member I know did. There was a group.
I think we know you. Were you a friend of FudgeStripe?

[MagickMuffin]

9. Yes, I was her friend

PM if you'd like to catch up.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Has anyone appealed that fine and won?

I'm thinking not because I don't recall anyone bragging that they did.

[Grins]

8. "..(a) political issue, rather than one grounded in science"

Well, ya’ see, Bethie….- it was!