Posted on 10/14/2021 2:25:33 PM PDT by motoman
“The governor has made it very clear – the way through the pandemic is through personal responsibility, not government mandates.” Attorney General Paxton said. “To all of the employees in San Antonio ISD who have decided not to get a COVID-19 vaccine at this time: We are fighting for your rights, and we fully expect the courts to stop the district’s unlawful mandate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at texasattorneygeneral.gov ...
On an earlier post, various Freepers assured that Paxton had a plan - really hope that is the case. Many school district employees were convinced that Texas would come through with a state Supreme Court stay to enforce Governor Abbott's EO like they did on the ban pertaining to mask mandates.
Really do support this Governor and AG Paxton, but we either have laws that are enforced, or the the Governor's promises cannot be taken seriously. If this school district is allowed to terminate employees for refusing covid injections starting tomorrow, then this is going to look very bad and possibly set up a precedents for other public and now private entities to simply ignore this state government's laws
This is the only school district in the entire state that ignored the vaccine mandate ban.
The San Antonio school district is extremely liberal and unfortunately have the backing of the majority of parents in the city. Consider San Antonio lost like we lost Austin many moons ago. SA is another city that is being taken over by the influx of liberals from all over the nation and socialist illegal invaders from other nations. This is one reason why the ISD has taken liberties and totally ignored the EO from governor Abbott. Hopefully the Texas AG has something up his sleeve before tomorrow.
This is not about San Antonio and the liberals in this district. Laws must be uniformly enforced regardless of local politics.
If anything, this is going to be very bad politics for the governor if the state does not prevail.
Also no ETS* from OSHA either.
*Emergency Temporary Standard.
Weird huh? The old “Because I said so!” rule.
I am retired prep school science teacher and now a part time GED tutor. I am paid by Fort Worth ISD. Fort Worth is paying $500 “stipends” (from taxpayer $) to any employees getting jabbed.
I don’t need the money, so I declined, but most have taken the money. They have over 15,000 employees. What a waste of our money.
Abbot is milquetoast. Our border should be fortified with our troops. He talks a good game but he’s a lightweight.Allen West for governor!
I hope SAISD gets slapped so hard they bleed taxpayer money for months, if not years...
San Antonio has been “lost” since the days of the old Good Government League, Lila Cockrell-Lila Cockroach we called her-Henry Cisneros as Mayor, etc-that loss was engineered by both parties, and the SAISD was such a hell district then that my hubby and I moved out into the boonies and commuted, worked extra jobs, etc so our cub could begin the 1st grade in an out-of-the-city Catholic school. It was a crap school district with gang activity and drugs in the 70’s and it is way worse from what I hear-I wouldn’t live in the city for any amount of money...
If the vaccine works,
then the vaccinated are safe.
If the vaccine doesn’t work,
there’s no reason to take it.
Either way there’s no need to mandate vaccines except to continue the ‘pandemic’ and the emergency powers that come with it.
Meanwhile, during the lockdown panic, violators met the full force of the State.
And, what are they going to do if you’re not vaccinated?
Talking to an 18 Year old in his first job, he showed uncanny wisdom. He said, “There is going to be lawsuits about this for a decade. Companies are going to regret doing it.”
“And, what are they going to do if you’re not vaccinated?”
The radical head of this district along with their HR department has verbally threatened termination for anyone not complying with their made up mandate.
It’s a form of bullying, coersion and intimidation towards a political outcome for the psycho’s running this school district.
Make them fire you now. Sue their asses later.
One Month After Biden Announced his Federal Vaccine Mandate!
It Still Has Not Been Formally Issued!
Trending Politics ^ | October 10, 202 | Kyle Becker
One month after the Biden administration announced a draconian federal vaccine mandate that impacted an estimated 100 million Americans and led to mass firings of public servants, teachers, and medical workers, the federal regulation still has not been formally issued.
The Federalist reported . . in a post on Thursday that noted, “Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Doesn’t Exist. It’s Just A Press Release”:
Biden’s so-called vaccine mandate doesn’t exist — at least, not yet. So far, all we have is his press conference. No such rule even claiming to be legally binding has been issued yet.
That’s why nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general who have publicly voiced their opposition to the clearly unconstitutional and illegal mandate haven’t yet filed suit against it, the Office of the Indiana Attorney General confirmed for me. There is no mandate to haul into court. And that may be part of the plan.
According to several sources, so far it appears no such mandate has been sent to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs yet for approval. The White House, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Department of Labor haven’t released any official guidance for the alleged mandate.
There is no executive order. There’s nothing but press statements.
Despite what you may have been . . . led to believe by the media, . . . press releases/statements have exactly zero legal authority.
“There is nothing there yet that gives employers any mandate,” Stephanie McFarland, spokeswoman for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration, told The Federalist’s Joy Pullman on Oct. 6. “The president made an announcement on this asking OSHA to do it, but we’ve not yet seen anything come from it yet,”. When the state agency gets any further information, she said, they’ll review it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at trendingpolitics.com …
(Lockdowns will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history! Cui bono?)
“It was a crap school district with gang activity and drugs in the 70’s and it is way worse from what I hear-I wouldn’t live in the city for any amount of money...”
This crap was going on during the 1970/80’s, anywhere there was an underachieving minority population from sea to shining sea and in between across America.
By supposedly addressing the needs of those minority populations, the school districts were blessed with extra federal and state funds if they addressed “those needs.”
Abbot is milquetoast. Our border should be fortified with our troops. He talks a good game but he’s a lightweight.
BINGO! The man is less than worthless. Paxton is the only real fighter out of the 2. AlThough I’m leaning more towards Huffines. West is a good man, but looking more for a Patton and less for a Bradley.
“The radical head of this district along with their HR department has verbally threatened termination for anyone not complying with their made up mandate.”
I was always financially conservative. In my career I was in a position where someone high up in the company might ask me to do something illegal. Something like sign off that military equipment had passed certification when it hadn’t. I decided that I always had to live my life so that if that happened, and it did happen, that I could say “No!” and make it stick. I did eventually get fired from that job, but not for that. For that, they went to the Quality Manager and he signed...someone else’s name. For which he was promptly fired with the company saying, “I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you that his signature caused us all to get bonuses.” As a consequence of this, I have never had a car payment. I’ve certainly driven some, *cough* cars with character. I’ve never carried over a credit card bill. I can count the pieces of NEW furniture I’ve bought on the fingers of one hand.
The problem with SAISD in the 70\s didn’t have anything to do with the ethnicity of the students or their level of achievement-the dumbing down in schools was not really active yet then-the problem was the lack of qualified personnel because the district paid really low in comparison to others-the only needs they were addressing were those of the administrators’ union connections and retirement funds-the whole thing became a scandal maybe 15 years later...
SAISD had as many Anglo students as it did Hispanic ones-the Catholic school my cub went to did as well-being Hispanic myself, that was not an issue that even entered my mind-there was simply no discipline in those schools, the classes were huge-when I visited prior to registration there were little kids running all over the place and teachers not doing a thing-and that was elementary school-small wonder the HS’s had such a bad reputation-no way was my cub going to a cluster**** like that-we enrolled her in private school...
12 Star Final and the antics of the South San Antonio ferals were a source of amusement for those of us that watched TV in the 60’s. I’d be surprised if the ACT average of graduating students from that area broke 15.
Cant Tx send in the state police to escort these employees back on campus and say if they are fired, then the admin will be arrested? Kind of like the reverse school segregation deal?
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