Posted on 11/19/2021 12:29:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Virginia’s governor-elect Glenn Youngkin says he won’t take action to prevent localities in the state from mandating the COVID jab or masks for their constituents.
“Localities are going to have to make decisions the way the law works and that is going to be up to individual decisions but, again, from the governor’s office, you won’t see mandates from me,” he said during an interview over the weekend.
The comments from Youngkin aren’t the first time the Virginia Republican has seemingly shied away from going on offense against vaccine coercion efforts. When twice asked by the moderator during the first gubernatorial debate if he would challenge President Joe Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate in court, Youngkin repeatedly avoided giving a direct answer to the question, instead simply saying, “I don’t believe that President Biden has the authority to dictate to everyone that we have to take the vaccine.” The then-candidate also declined to comment on whether he would encourage Virginia businesses to reject Biden’s vaccine coercion.
Most recently, the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) suspended the implementation and enforcement of its controversial vaccine mandate that would have required U.S. employers with 100 or more employees to force their workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or undergo weekly testing. The move came just days after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the rule, arguing that the mandate “exposes [petitioners] to severe financial risk” and “threatens to decimate their workforces (and business prospects).”
“In the mine run of cases — a transportation department regulating trucking on an interstate highway, or an aviation agency regulating an airplane lavatory — this is generally well and good. But health agencies do not make housing policy, and occupational safety administrations do not make health policy,” the court said. “In seeking to do so here, OSHA runs afoul of the statute from which it draws its power and, likely, violates the constitutional structure that safeguards our collective liberty.”
At least 27 states, along with businesses and religious groups, have filed legal challenges against the mandate.
What a WUSS RINO!!!
he’s allowing it to be a local decision ... a very conservative principle ...
RE: The then-candidate also declined to comment on whether he would encourage Virginia businesses to reject Biden’s vaccine coercion.
OK I gather that his is a hands-off policy? That is, he won’t impose a state-wide vaccine or mask mandate but won’t force a local government to NOT impose a mandate if it wishes to do so?
How’s this going to work?
If I live in TOWN A in Virginia and my job is in TOWN B in Virginia, and TOWN B requires a vaccine mandate, I have to quit my job and find a job in towns that don’t have this mandate?
OK I gather that his is a hands-off policy? That is, he won’t impose a state-wide vaccine or mask mandate but won’t force a local government to NOT impose a mandate if it wishes to do so?
How’s this going to work?
If I live in TOWN A in Virginia and my job is in TOWN B in Virginia, and TOWN B requires a vaccine mandate, I have to quit my job and find a job in towns that don’t have this mandate?
Suburban Karens in NoVa approve.
Just another pos republican. Governors have a duty to uphold the rights of their state’s citizenry and have the authority to step in when local municipalities abuse the citizens in their jurisdictions. This bullshit excuse that it’s up to the individual localities is just that...bullshit.
It’s not a conservative principle to allow the abuse of citizens by ‘local’ jurisdictions.
Agreed. 90% of the counties in Va are solid red.
Let the blue counties make theirs unlivable if they think it will make them popular.
I dunno ... maybe the McAuliffe way was better after all ...
NO IT ISNT! SHARIA LAW ALLOWS WIFE BEATING!
Another RINO, he needs to grow a set and stand up for whats right. DeSantis is the only Governor worth a dam.
Local gummits are better than Governors.
Lmao!!!
Just as with the Trump SCOTUS picks we again have to wonder what the fuss from the left was all about when things like this happen. The globalist left are trying to take down any countries that stand in their way and America isn’t the only target. I read an article on that, “Here’s What You Need to Know About the Border Crisis in Poland”, and you can give that a look at DailySignal. Notice no countries other than white-founded ones are required to have open borders / be ‘diverse’. Nobody is demanding same of China, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia or many others. Youngkin may yet surprise in a positive way, but right now he looks like the lesser evil...which is still evil.
Question, did he promise to get rid of mandates on the campaign trail...if he did than he is breaking his promise
Another Mitt Romney .... at least it isn’t McAuliffe.
RE: did he promise to get rid of mandates on the campaign trail...if he did than he is breaking his promise
The answer to your question is in the third paragraph of this article...
Given that locals are tending to be more restrictive...nope. And it will make a patchwork of Laws, which is confusing at best. “My town has freedom, but now I can’t shop at the only food store nearby because it’s in a lockdown city.” —new normal in Virginia.
Looks like locals will have to take some responsibility.
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