Posted on 05/20/2021 8:24:31 PM PDT by conservative98
Six House Republicans have been fined $500 for going maskless in the chamber — with two members docked the cash after they trashed letters warning them to follow rules about face-coverings on the floor.
Around a dozen GOP lawmakers opted to keep their masks off during votes Tuesday, with some making a point to stand in the well of the House chamber to ensure that spectators, colleagues and the C-SPAN cameras could not miss them.
House rules dictate that members must keep their faces covered in the chamber except when speaking during debates. Failure to follow the rule results in a fine of $500 for a first offense and $2,500 for a second offense.
Following Tuesday’s display, seven House Republicans received an initial warning letter from the House Sergeant-at-Arms about wearing masks: Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Chip Roy of Texas, Bob Good of Virginia, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Mary Miller of Illinois.
Three others were initially fined: Reps. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas).
However, Massie and Taylor Greene broadcast their defiance Wednesday, with Massie tweeting an image of the warning letter in his office trash can.
“Just filed @SpeakerPelosi’s letter warning me to follow her mask rule,” he wrote.
Taylor Greene, who posed for a cheerful selfie with some of her unmasked colleagues Tuesday, took her rejection of the warning to another level, posting a video in which she ran the letter through an office shredder.
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“You can’t discriminate against people simply because they won’t wear a mask,” she said in the video, “and today, I refused to wear a mask on the House floor and I received a warning from Speaker Pelosi that leads to fines if I continue to refuse to wear a mask. Well, here’s what I think of your warning, Speaker Pelosi.”
The tweet was accompanied by the hashtag, “#FreeYourFace”.
Nuck Fanci.
Frank Luntz roommate still hiding .
Good Patriots!!!
In before the negative losers say, “it’s pointless...”
Masks spread disease yet are loved by the wrinkled ugly. Priorities.
Sue!!!
$500 in dc? What a freakin joke! I’m beginning to believe that entire town has just gone full lunatic.
$500 in dc? What a freakin joke! I’m beginning to believe that entire town has just gone full lunatic.
Hmmmmm.....haven’t most of them been ‘vax’d?
Don’t pay it, see what stretch face Pelosi does. There were no head scarfs allowed in the house until Ilan commie Omar arrived. How did that work out?
Don’t pay it.
Then sue.
If all the Republicans hang together… Oh, wait.
This is what I think of Speaker Pelosi’s letter. #FreeYourFace pic.twitter.com/9uujzmtCCP— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 19, 2021
Just say “I identify as wearing a mask right now”.
Good. All the pussy Republicans should do. And don’t pay the fine.
There is no controlling authority to force any free American to wear a face mask, not even the speaker of the House has that authority. If they did, where would that kind of control end? Don’t pay any illegitimate fines, it’s called a peaceful protest of which every free American has the right to enact. Besides, Pelosi wouldn’t fie a communist democrat for anything, let alone their defying her edict.
it’s badge of honor. wear it instead of a mask.
they’re in the white hut. the corona disappears in the white hut
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