Posted on 05/28/2021 2:23:44 PM PDT by george76
Would that we had more such irresponsible, self-serving political stunts. They are the best kind!
That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin probably just won the election to be governor with this action.
“She was wrong to overide a mandate as a Lt. Governor while an acting Governor was out of town.”
Mike Curb used to do it to Jerry Brown all the time back in the seventies. It wasn’t wrong. It was hilarious. Brown couldn’t fly around the country because his GOP lieutenant governor would stick it to the Dems when he was gone. Play by the rules types like you are the reason we always lose. By the way, I like your new word, “authprity.” Has an AOC ring to it.
‘...repealed an executive order banning mask mandates.”
Foolish. The Governor should simply leave the order and privately tell the Lt. Gov. to be more careful next time. End of story.
good on you Lt. Gov Janice.
that slick weasel gope is the one violating the Constitution (while falsely/lawlessly applying his version of “federalism”), you’re the one upholding your oath to protect our “equality under the Law.”
She just nipped the governor with the burdizzo.
The current governor is now a steer.
According to what has been written, in Idaho the Lt Gov is the ‘acting’ gov when the gov is out/absent. She seized the opportunity and it has exposed the gov for what he is: another nanny state bureaucrat.
*snicker*
She knew what she was doing and neutered the foolish jerk. He walked right into her web.
If I got to be governor for a day I could think of a lot better things to do.
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Yeah. But she’s running for the office. And this little trick may be the one political play that gets her in.
Those 7 Oregon counties may want to consider joining Utah instead.
“She was wrong to overide a mandate as a Lt. Governor while an acting Governor was out of town. Regardless of the issue her authprity only goes so far and she did abuse that.”
No she didn’t. She was using the powers given to her to issue orders in the absence of the Governor from the State. She used the authority that she has according to the law of governance in her State. I love what she did, and may she win her race against this lily liver’ed RINO Governor for his office.
Pubs so very often play the role of nice guy and then get squashed every time when their opponents don’t play by the same rules, and they never do. Pubs MUST develop a spine and a willingness to fight fire with equal fire. If the enemy gets down and dirty, double down and get even more down and dirty.
Examples: Biden stole the election, Pubs swallowed it with little fanfare. Biden is about to grab our guns; Pubs will swallow it as will the Sheeple among the populace. Biden is spending us into disaster, Pubs are swallowing it (except for the few Pubs that DO have a spine and are willing to fight). Most won’t, they will pull their verbal punches, and get walked over.
Biden will get us into a war, Pubs won’t do anything about it. Biden is setting it up for us never having an honest election again if these socialists can help it. He will get his bill passed (HR 1) and Pubs will do nothing to stop it (like walk out en masse depriving them of a quorum, and not returning until the bill is tabled.
Biden will pack the Supreme Court, and the cowards now sitting on the Supreme Court will allow it to happen to them just like they wouldn’t hear any case about corruption in the 2016 election and thus allowed the disastrous regime we now live under to exist.
So, your sensibilities would not allow for a bold countermove by this Lt. Gov, just like Pub “sensibilities” do not allow for any protesting of the 2016 election theft, because the Dems say it didn’t happen. We must fight to the end now, or live under tyranny by power hungry “leaders” like this Governor. Choose your poison.
I think that ranks as one of the stupidest comments of the day.
Good God...even Massachusetts,with a Governor whose hatred of Trump can light a small town,has declared an end to masks,etc,etc.
Brilliant political move.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) on Friday repealed Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s (R) executive order that banned statewide mask mandates one day earlier, calling her action an “an abuse of power.”
I feel confused. If I read the article correctly, it was the Lt. Gov who imposed the ban, which was repealed the next day by the real governor. I can’t imagine this stunt would win her many votes in Idaho but I don’t know the local politics. Will probably be great for fundraising though, and a later job at a Soros funded NGO or something if she doesn’t win the job.
OK, I see where I got confused. Weird double-negative wording “Repeal mask mandate ban”. I read it the other way around.
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