Posted on 05/14/2022 8:56:00 PM PDT by lightman
Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a bill to limit the power of state health officials to mandate measures for contagious diseases, including face masks and vaccine passports.
Kelly said the bill went beyond COVID-19 and would considerably limit government response to any infectious disease outbreak.
Senate Bill 34, brought by the Republican-controlled Legislature, sought to curb the power of government agencies as well as state and local health officials in response to COVID-19 mandates imposed during the pandemic.
Amendments to the Kansas Emergency Management Act would prohibit the mandating of protective mask requirements (pdf), except for hospitals and other medical facilities, including nursing homes.
Officials and government entities would also not be able to require COVID-19 vaccine passports for any purpose within the state.
The bill would also require judicial review of certain emergency actions to occur without unreasonable delay and limit the powers of the secretary of health and environment related to enforcement of quarantine and student inoculation requirements.
In vetoing the bill, Kelly said it posed “significant safety concerns” for workers, employers, and the economy.
“I have consistently opposed vaccine passports and mandating any COVID-19 vaccination. However, this bill goes beyond COVID-19 and implements a one-size-fits-all approach for all infectious diseases. It significantly limits any government entity’s response to any infectious disease outbreak,” she said in a veto message.
The vetoed bill, she said, would mean that schools, businesses, and the agricultural sector could not adequately respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases such as measles, tuberculosis, or avian flu.
“We have a responsibility to protect our critically important agricultural industry and the farmers and ranchers who feed the nation,” Kelly said.
“We need to be prepared for what’s down the road to best protect Kansans. This bill puts the safety of all Kansans and our economy at risk,” she added.
The bill, which struggled to pass last month, would also prohibit law enforcement officers from enforcing orders from state and local health officials.
GOP leaders faced an uphill battle to win support for the bill in both houses, with some Republicans reportedly identifying some unintended consequences.
Senate Bill 34 would also prohibit the health secretary from mandating inoculations as a requirement for first-time enrolment at schools, preschools, or daycare programs operated by a school without full FDA approval.
Kelly has in the past opposed President Joe Biden’s requirement that businesses with 100 or more employees get the COVID-19 vaccine or submit to regular testing.
She has spoken in support of a measure to force businesses that require COVID-19 vaccination to give broad exceptions to workers who don’t want to get the vaccine.
Stolen elections have consequences.
When The Wichita Eagle followed up on Kobach's assertion, it discovered Brewer, 78 years old, was still alive, although his father, who was born in 1904 and had a different middle initial, had died in 1996. Brewer told the Eagle reporter, "I don't think this is heaven, not when I'm raking leaves."
The Brandon Media can find one old dude - but they can't find 2000 Mules...
Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Hillary...all these old white fossils as standard-bearers of the "party of inclusion".
The entire Democrat Party “leadership” is power mad.
Not just the women.
The ‘government’, and I use quotes because it’s really a sort of enormous crime syndicate, has usurped so many ‘responsibilities’ right down to mass medical ‘mandates’ that they effectively own every one of us, just like cattle. Even they are owned but they’re good with it like the girls on The View.
“Stolen elections have consequences.”
Wasted elections have consequences. Kansas wasn’t stolen, Kobach was a weak nominee in a tough year with a lot of Trump backlash. We are on track to waste several more big elections this year, and there will be consequences.
Laura Kelly got 81,000 more "votes" in an off-year than Hillary got in a presidential election year in Kansas.
The Brandon Media works with races targeted by the DNC to create "controversies" which "explain" the extra "turnout".
I have a tool which shows me these things.
You can create this tool, too.
You made me look at my tool numbers.
Do you realize that Kris Kobach's numbers in 98 of the 105 Kansas counties in 2018 were between 59% and 71% of Trump's 2016 numbers.
That's not normal.
counties % 1 48% 1 53% 1 56% 2 59% 7 60% 13 61% 7 62% 13 63% 10 64% 11 65% 8 66% 11 67% 4 68% 5 69% 5 70% 2 71% 1 72% 1 73% 1 75% 1 76%
There is something very wrong and un-republican when the executive can veto a limit to his arbitrary power.
“That’s not normal.”
It is normal with a bad candidate(*), in an off year election, after two years of media freakout 24/7 about Trump.
*I like Kobach, he is rock solid on policy, but he is a classic example of failing to nominate an electable candidate.
And now the DemonicRats are linking Republican candidate Derrick Schmidt as a “Brownback protege”.
You don’t do statistics, do you?
Let me fish up the Kansas numbers for 2016 versus 2020.
Yes, every day. Trump wasn’t running in 2018, and Kobach wasn’t running in 2016. Trump is also not the same person as Kobach. So now run that data through your “tool”.
But you act like people just come out of the woodwork who a) are popular, b) competent, and c) with no skeletons. There are reasons why people like Kobach, Byrnovich in AZ, Oz and Barnette in PA, run. It’s because others either can’t or won’t.
Instead of bashing those who do, we ought to spend more time on finding the right candidates then convincing all others who would dilute the vote to exit. We’re doing pretty good in AZ governor race with Lake, but the US Senate race has Byrnovich and two outsiders (Masters and Lamon). Apparently Lamon is nearly 100% self funded from his business-—good in some ways, bad in others. I like to see someone funded by the people. But the danger is they could split the vote.
“We’re doing pretty good in AZ governor race with Lake”
Why not Matt Salmon, for example? Lake is un unknown: has never run before (not battle tested), with questionable politics. She is potentially the exact mistake I am warning about. Wait for the data dump on her to show after she gets nominated. Trump endorsed because he thinks she is attractive, which is not smart.
On April 22, 2004, Kari Halperin donated $500 to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, a Democratic presidential candidate.
Her occupation is listed as “video production.” She was still a registered Republican.
At the time, Kerry was the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. He lost to President Bush in the fall general election.
-On June 28, 2008, a “K Halperin” donated $350 to Barack Obama’s campaign. Her occupation is listed as “Zen Video,” the name of her husband’s Phoenix business.
Kelly got 81,000 more votes than Hillary.
And Kobach's percentages of the Trump 2016 vote was in a very narrow band.
There should have been a more than a couple of counties where he was more popular than 75% of Trump's 2016 turnout.
It just doesn't pass the sniff test, considering that Kelly blew out Hillary's 2016 numbers in absolute laughers.
Probably. One thing we need to get in our heads is that you have to win by more than the margin of the refs-—that is, I think routinely the refs cheat against some of my teams. To some degree we can control the refs, to other degrees we need to bury them beyond the margin of fraud.
And I am fully down with GOP cheating if that is what it takes.
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