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'Blindsided': Fury in NYC as de Blasio gives firms just 3 weeks to get vaxxed
NY Post ^ | 7 December A.D. 2021 | Reuven Fenton, Carl Campanile, Nolan Hicks and Sam Raskin

Posted on 12/07/2021 4:37:37 AM PST by lightman

Mayor Bill de Blasio sprang a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on all private businesses in New York City on Monday — drawing immediate rebuke from trade groups, New York office workers and some fellow elected officials who said the backbone of the Big Apple was “blindsided” by the stunning move.

De Blasio, whose mayoralty ends at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, labeled making vaccines compulsory for private businesses a “pre-emptive strike” against an expected surge in COVID infections this winter amid the emergence of the Omicron variant.

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Kathryn Wylde, head of the business group Partnership for NYC, blasted the mayor’s announcement.

“There’s no forewarning, no discussion, no idea about whether it’s legal or who he expects to enforce it,” she said. “There’s been no consultation.

“We were blindsided,” a clearly enraged Wylde said.

She also questioned if de Blasio has the legal ability to implement the vaccine rule for private entities.

“It’s unclear by what authority the mayor is doing this,” said Wylde.

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Asked about potential penalties for non-compliant employers, the mayor again responded vaguely. “It’s part of life that there have to be some consequences,” he said. “We’ll figure out what makes sense by Dec. 15 when we put out the guidelines.”

De Blasio said he spoke to both Gov. Kathy Hochul and Adams, his successor, who is currently on a personal trip to Ghana, about the new policy before he revealed it.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: mewzilla

I live in Maine.

Collins received more than 50% of the vote plus just one additional vote in November 2020. She did not get re-elected by rank choice voting. I think she had 53% of the vote.

If a candidate for federal office in Maine receives LESS than 50% of the vote plus one additional vote, then RCV will kick in.

Democrat Jared Golden, the Maine second district congress critter, won his House seat in 2018 because of rank choice voting....GOP incumbent Bruce Poliquin actually received 2,200 more votes but lost.


41 posted on 12/07/2021 7:46:00 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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To: lightman

Hang on here, folks...

This guy is gone on new years day, and I’ve seen no word on the new guy (Adams) going along with this.

So, everyone just hold off (give Mr. Willhelm the middle finger for about 3 weeks), or simply file an injunction that’ll hold till January.

Adams does NOT want to walk into office with a mega crisis on his hands (e.g. the entire NYPD and FDNY walking off the job).

Hold fast, people.

That is all.


42 posted on 12/07/2021 8:17:02 AM PST by jimjohn (...like Donkey Kong.)
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To: lightman

“Fury in NYC...”

Highly doubtful.


43 posted on 12/07/2021 8:18:47 AM PST by Fury
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To: lightman

Stand up against this tyranny!!! NO.


44 posted on 12/07/2021 8:26:54 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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Bobblehead De Boobie believes he is a revolutionary marxist. He might have endorsed Adams but that was only after the primary. He wanted his chief czarette Garcia, but interestingly, ranked-choice thwarted that loony bitch by just 7,200 votes. Schadenfreude!

So Bobblehead is attempting to handcuff Adams to a dead policy, a policy that has been repudiated already (via full faith and credit) from other, smarter, Federal Circuits.

Adams needs a clever reproach to De Boobie, one would be to silently encourage a blizzard of lawsuits to enjoin such a lame, hasty mandate.

But if Adams wanted to be bold and immediately elevate himself as a different-kind-of-Democrat on the national stage, foment a repudiation of De Boobie (and the entirety of his enmity admin) and hire a dream team assembled from the recent 6th Circuit victors, in particular led by DhillonLaw's Harmeet K. Dhillon, who represented Bentkey Services, LLC ("The Daily Wire"), filed jointly with ADF Legal - Alliance Defending Freedom. Of the combined cases that produced the 6th Circuit victory, their Petition was fascinatingly compelling.

45 posted on 12/07/2021 8:45:55 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, and MERCK)
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To: lightman
De Blasio, whose mayoralty ends at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, labeled making vaccines compulsory for private businesses a “pre-emptive strike”...

I prefer to think of it as "one more kick in the crotch on the way out the door."

46 posted on 12/07/2021 8:50:49 AM PST by Billthedrill
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It's interesting that Gov. Hochul bought off Kathryn Garcia for the same kind of czarette position upstate, as defense against Bobblehead's likely run for Governor. Garcia can #MeToo De Boobie in the primary; when in reality De Boobie should probably try to primary Gillibrand.

Bobblehead is as dumb as the day is long. The kind of calumny he generated as Mayor, including his wife's $1B disappearing act, is probably less of a liability for a Senate run than a goobernatorial run. Just look at Carpetbagging Cankle$ as proof-of-concept.

47 posted on 12/07/2021 8:56:56 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least ONE of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, and MERCK)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

RCV-enabled machines can still be used screw with a vote. To send certain ballots to adjudication for example.

Do you happen to know anything about adjudication rates in ME since RCV-enabled machines have been in use...?


48 posted on 12/07/2021 8:58:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: nonliberal
Just ignore it.

Some will, but the majority will follow along like the good little sheeple they are.

Enjoy the suck!

49 posted on 12/07/2021 9:16:55 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
He has no authority to do it. And he'll be out of office. Hochul's idea? Meanwhile the mayor-elect is on personal business (adoption?) in Ghana. Eric Adams keyword, sorted:

50 posted on 12/07/2021 10:27:16 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mewzilla

I have no idea about the adjudication rates. But it took a number of weeks in 2018 to determine the outcome of the Second District Congressional race. Were there shenanigans? I don’t know.

President Trump won Maine’s Second District in spite of RCV in 2020....Jared Golden won without RCV kicking in during the 2020 race....Chellie Pingree won the First District in 2018 and 2020 without RCV kicking in....Angus King won re-election to his senate seat in 2018....Susan Collins won in 2020.

A court ruled that RCV only applies to federal elections in Maine, not state elections.

The Maine Constitution mentions a plurality of votes, whereas the Federal Constitution does not. That was the judge’s reasoning.

As far as I know, the only candidate to lose a fall election because of RCV was incumbent Second District Congressman Bruce Poliquin in 2018.

Poliquin is going to run again in 2022.


51 posted on 12/07/2021 11:12:00 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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...Adams, his successor, who is currently on a personal trip to Ghana...

52 posted on 12/07/2021 11:26:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: lightman
 
 
Looking at the reactions to this across social media the rejection has been explosive and angry. The only support for it I've seen have been copy & paste hit-and-run trolls. Outside of outright refusals to comply discussions about legal strategies have been brisk.
 
 

53 posted on 12/07/2021 12:05:29 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lightman

Some people ask — can’t you challenge this in court?

Well, the city workers did — Teachers, Fire Fighters, Police... they LOST.

The court decided that the CITY can as a condition of being employed by the city, require certain conditions be first met, including vaccination.

The judge did recognize that a national mandate was different, but the judge ruled that this is a local matter.

Now, the question is this — is this decision applicable to employees in PRIVATE businesses? Will New Jerseyans and Connecticutians who work in New York be forced to take the vaccine against their will?

We don’t know how a judge will decide.

For all New Yorkers take note -— BILL DE BLASIO’s NEXT AMBITION IS TO RAN FOR GOVERNOR OF THE ENTIRE STATE !!

If you think you can escape his policies because you don’t live or work in the city, wait till he becomes governor... ( or you can stop this by permanently retiring him ).


54 posted on 12/07/2021 12:39:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: lightman

can they hold out till that FPOS is gone?

or will newguy keep it in place?


55 posted on 12/07/2021 2:25:54 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: lightman

56 posted on 12/07/2021 2:27:13 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: deport
 
Coronavirus Cases:     266,887,517
Deaths:                  5,281,587 
Recovered:             240,503,481  
 
Vanished into thin air! 21,102,449
 

 

57 posted on 12/07/2021 5:54:49 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SunkenCiv

Them Ghanaians ain’t gots no prince money like the Nigerian fella sent to me.


58 posted on 12/07/2021 5:59:19 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Chode

Impfung verabreichen to administer inoculationmed.


59 posted on 12/07/2021 6:02:14 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

richtig


60 posted on 12/07/2021 6:14:33 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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