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Posted on 09/05/2021 4:38:14 AM PDT by Libloather
A group of police officers and firefighters are suing Oregon Gov. Kate Brown over the state's vaccine mandate, KOIN-TV reported.
The lawsuit, filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court, seeks to deter the state from mandating all employees of the executive branch to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The group is asking a judge to declare Brown's order as "unenforceable." They claim the executive order clashes with existing Oregon statutes of free expression and could result in the wrongful termination of employees.
"Forcing them to decide between their livelihoods and vindicating their statutory and constitutional rights is unconscionable and wrong," the suit said.
The order, which was announced in August, requires all employees of the executive branch to be fully vaccinated on or before October 18 or six weeks after a vaccine receives full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
It can excuse people with disabilities, qualifying medical conditions, or truly held religious beliefs, however. Employees who failed to act in accordance with the directive will face "personnel consequences up to and including separation from employment."
Among those suing Brown are the Oregon Fraternal Order of Police, along with troopers from around the state and several firefighters in Klamath County, per KOIN-TV.
Liz Merah, a spokesperson for Brown, told the outlet that the governor was "responding to a public health crisis" by issuing the mandate.
Vaccine mandates are "critical to protect state workers, workplaces and facilities, as well as members of the public who use state services," Merah added.
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Accelerating news…
Bump!
Punch back twice as hard, folks, else be slaves forever.
Their defense should include the fact that vaccinated people are getting the virus and spreading it.
So the vaccines don’t prevent getting the virus,taking pharmaceuticals can prevent the virus,so have municipal workers take Ivermectin and hydro I chlorine.
“... or truly held religious beliefs...”
I’ve read this line on a number of forced vax forms and I am unsure really to the meaning. “Truly held”... defined by whom? Is it a certain ‘religion” or can one say that they feel their God doesn’t want them to get a vaccine and.. (follow me on this one)... that answer came to the person as a result of prayer.
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2020
“We’re all in this together.”
“We (heart) or first responders.”
“Heroes work here.”
2021
“No vaxx, you’re fired!”
The state beotch is also forcing school districts to mandate the shots.
Yup—first they boil the frog slowly...
and then they crank up the dial...
There’s a story in the local (So-Oregon) newspaper of two ICU nurses who won’t vaxx and are going to have to quit their jobs of 10 and 14 years. heraldandnews.com
Benedict Biden: THAT’S HIS NAME! Destroying America: THAT’S HIS GAME!!
She's all for freedom and choice...when it comes to killing the unborn.
Yep
He a guinea or a ninny?
I’m not familiar with that one :)
Somewhere there’s a HOA full of rich leftists in dire need of a Chairwoman.
Brown should go persecute them.
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