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Democratic Kansas governor questions Biden vaccine mandates
The Associated Press ^ | November 4, 2021 | By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA

Posted on 11/04/2021 12:52:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

LAKE QUIVIRA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly argued Thursday that mandates like those imposed by the federal government for vaccinating workers against COVID-19 “tend not to work,” the Democrat’s first public statements on the rules heading into a difficult reelection campaign in her Republican-leaning state.

Her comments during a Kansas City-area chambers of commerce lunch were her first public statements on the vaccine mandates. She’s faced criticism from Republicans and some labor-union members who oppose the mandates for not publicly opposing them after the Democratic president first announced them in September. Her staff has said she couldn’t comment until the state learned the details.

“We have not mandated a vaccine in the state of Kansas. We have done everything we can to encourage people and to make it easy for folks to get vaccinated,” Kelly said. “I’ve lived in Kansas a long time and I understand that those kinds of things tend not to work.”

”OSHA just this morning released a 490 page document. I’m not going to pretend to have read it,” Kelly said. “I’m not sure that there are going to be a lot of ways that we can design this to work for Kansas. Give me a little bit of time to work on it and we will see what we can do.”

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, a Republican hoping to unseat Kelly in next year’s governor’s race, already has brought Kansas into a federal lawsuit filed by multiple states against the requirement for government contractors.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: ccp; covid; mandates; wuhan

1 posted on 11/04/2021 12:52:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Feeling the heat Laura?

I have only called your office every day for five months now.

2 posted on 11/04/2021 12:55:06 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

She is getting calls from pissed off farmers.


3 posted on 11/04/2021 1:03:16 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looks to me like she has read Tuesdays tea leaves.


4 posted on 11/04/2021 1:11:28 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Vote her out anyways. Democrats lie. Always.


5 posted on 11/04/2021 1:15:17 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Kelly is up for re-election in 2022, starting to sweat more than a little I would say.


6 posted on 11/04/2021 1:18:02 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The mandatory vaccinations are evil crimes against humanity and her strongest argument is that “they tend not to work”....

That is like objecting to concentration camps on the grounds they “tend not to work”.

They work just fine.

They are evil.


7 posted on 11/04/2021 1:19:00 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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8 posted on 11/04/2021 1:21:21 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden has no feel for how he is wrecking the democratic party with his mandates. He is such a wizbang that he has no idea. I cannot believe a man can be this stupid and democrats still vote for him.


9 posted on 11/04/2021 1:35:42 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: Nateman

Well not just Dims...plenty of Pubbies lie their asses off too


10 posted on 11/04/2021 1:38:41 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Dementia, Senile...and dumb don’t mix.


11 posted on 11/04/2021 1:40:22 PM PDT by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly argued Thursday that mandates like those imposed by the federal government for vaccinating workers against COVID-19 “tend not to work,”

Whether the vaccine works or doesn't work is irrelevant. What's at stake here is freedom. People should not be forced by the government to take an experimental drug - EVER. They should be allowed to choose for themselves and their children.

I chose to get the jab and the jab booster, but I am adamantly opposed to a government jab mandate.

I think if the government had used their time to convince people to get vaccinated instead of going full totalitarian that a higher percentage of people would already be vaccinated.

12 posted on 11/04/2021 2:10:18 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
From the article:As I've posted before: If everybody would use Ivermectin and/or HCQ as prophylaxis for early intervention, we wouldn't need vaccines that aren't, "requirements," boosters, mandates, masks, lockdowns, 940 pages of rules, expensive designer drugs, etc, and the CCP virus and it's variants would disappear in a month.
13 posted on 11/04/2021 2:33:53 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent
I cannot believe a man can be this stupid and democrats still vote for him.

Bear in mind most of this doesn't come from Biden. He's just a vessel used by his handlers Susan Rice, ValJar, Ron Klain and last, but certainly not least, nobama, et al.

14 posted on 11/04/2021 2:45:16 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The nasty witch tried to shut down our schools. Luckily, the state Board of Ed blocked it.


15 posted on 11/04/2021 6:15:24 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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