Posted on 12/16/2020 1:18:56 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Gov. Jay Inslee issued a proclamation Monday halting the termination of a city-county health department or the withdrawal from a health district until the COVID-19 state of emergency is over, as local public health districts face continued politicization.
The proclamation was announced just one day before a vote in the Pierce County Council to break its county-city health department agreement. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has received attention in the past few weeks after members of the county council proposed breaking a decades-long agreement between Tacoma and Pierce County to share a health department.
“The pause is necessary to ensure that we have a continuity and a stability of our public health efforts,” Inslee said in a Monday news conference.
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So, how does a governor issue a legally binding ‘proclamation?’
Isn’t there supposed to be a Legislature involved in there somewhere?
Inslee winning 60/40 tells me that Washington’s elections are as believable as Venezuela, or.... the USA.
WA State are big Dominion customers. No way he won.
Another brilliant load from J. Idiot.
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