Lt. Dan was right. Roy IS treating us like five-year-olds!
Gov. Doofus has decided to sic Dr. Mandy and her DHHS stormtroopers into our business. Right now, he’s focusing on Moore County. The fact that he’s doing this right before an election to an overwhelmingly Republican county is, um, interesting:
During a conference call with North Carolina’s top health official this past week, Moore County leaders were asked to consider levying fines against people who fail to wear face coverings in public.
Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke on Monday with representatives from Moore and 35 other counties where coronavirus cases have spiked in recent weeks. Frank Quis, chairman of the Moore County Board of Commissioners, and Robert Wittmann, director of the local health department, both participated in the call.
For the record, the great majority of COVID cases in our county are in nursing / rest homes.
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[…] “There was a recommendation from the secretary that local counties consider passing ordinances with civil fines and penalties,” Wittmann said in a presentation to the Moore County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. “There was no decision made, but there was considerable opposition to local ordinances by some of the other county (officials) that spoke.”
In a phone interview on Wednesday, Quis confirmed that the recommendation was mainly focused on enforcement of the statewide mask mandate enacted by Gov. Roy Cooper in June. That executive order requires North Carolinians to wear face coverings when out in public, but it does not allow police to fine or arrest violators.
Instead, the state left it up to individual counties and municipalities to decide how — and if — the order should be enforced. Quis said enforcement in Moore County would be a “significant undertaking fraught with potential problems.”
The county’s authority to issue civil penalties to violators on private property, Quis said, is among the “thousand questions” related to local enforcement. He added that the county would need to determine the cost of fines and what recourse, if any, it has if people refuse to pay them.
In case you didn’t know, we’ve got wide, huge swaths of private property throughout the county: horse farms, golf resorts, country clubs, and large residential estates. Is Gov. Doofus really expecting our boys in blue to write tickets to the guy walking around his acres of property without a face mask (especially if the cop is sitting on a public road watching someone on private property)?
There’s no problem with individual businesses and establishments requiring masks for entry. People know the risks by now. People have the right to remove someone from their property if they are walking among groups of people coughing while not wearing masks.
I think our lawmen have a few more important things to do than to chase us and check for masks.
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“Everyone agrees that we should strive to do more, but this is a very difficult request,” Quis said. “But we’re still going to talk about it and explore it. I think we’re obligated to do that.”
He added: “We got some feedback from commissioners in other counties that expressed no interest at all in going down that road.”
Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields made his position on mandatory face coverings known back in June. In a statement shared at the time through the community notification platform Nixle, he said Cooper’s executive order was both “unenforceable” and “unconstitutional.”
Cohen and Erik Hooks, secretary of the N.C. Department of Public Safety, sent a letter on Tuesday to representatives from counties that participated in the conference call. Writing in the letter, which was released Wednesday to news outlets, Cohen and Hooks again urged county leaders to “consider additional local actions to improve compliance to best position our health systems and first responders to respond to the challenges that can accompany rising cases of COVID-19,” the disease caused by the virus.
“The incredible work of our local partners has allowed North Carolina to avoid the first and second waves of rapid spikes in COVID-19 positives that devastated so many other states,” they wrote. “To protect our communities, we must continue working together in this fight against COVID-19.”
How is it that our President is criticized for his “failure” to stop this pandemic, but Gov Opie, who is the real enforcer of public health (the Feds have little say-so – hence the Biden Constitutional faux-pas) is lauded for getting us nowhere in this mess? Can you really have it both ways?
IN 8-mos we have NOT moved thru 3 Phases. That’s SUCCESS???? Or epic failure or failure by causation?? Our county sheriff months ago said, MY deputies WILL NOT enforce masks; we have limited personnel, state/county cutbacks have required our agency to be down numbers. OUR MISSION is to keep county residents safe, protected and free of crime and criminals. It takes ALL my agency to do that now and we don’t always have the time or resources to accomplish OUR MISSION. I am NOT having deputies respond to mask-incidents and I have informed them to respond to no such calls. And businesses have DEEPER concerns, like how to stay in biz at 25% capacity and keeping establishments cleansed, sanitized and their employees/staff and themselves safe. I’m a biz owner and someone doing biz with me, I’m calling law enforcement on a mask violation and kill my blz, my client? HOW STUPID. Cohen and Cooper are hateful, spiteful zealots and have never overcome NOT expanding medicare (to cause we the taxpayer HIGHER taxes ).
Cooper is the most far-left gov/democrat ever elected. No pretense to be moderate or centrist. Those Soros $$ from that NY mtg must have been powerful. Didn’t Obama attend said mtg as well?
I think our biggest problem as Republican voters is that our state GOP is run by RINO types. Dan Forrest has run a piss poor campaign and Burr as well as Tillis are wired in to the NCGOP.
I will hold my nose to vote for Tillis, but IF he should win by some miracle, we need a grassroots effort to find a replacement and primary Tillis next go ’round. MEADOWS appears to think he is a shoe in for Burr who will not be running in 2 years. Perhaps a grassroots effort can develop to get and groom local and statewide candidates so we never end up with weakling candidates again.
We need to rebuild the NCGOP into a conservative powerhouse.
Tillis has made a fool of those of us who voted for him in the 1st place.
Meadows does indeed take us for granted, as do Mark Walker and other establishment types whom are already thinking 2022. Need to watch out for Meadows in particular, though, I can see Burr being to encouraged to step down early so that his Executive Committee-appointed replacement, I.e., Meadows, has a baked in incumbency advantage.
Don’t care at all how Meadows resigned his seat and gave the seat to his wife’s best friend. Just don’t buy that crap and why many Conservatives in NC are disgusted with NCGOP. Like the National GOP, every 2Y and 4Y, THEY NEED our vote and then it is we will do this our way.
IF Tillis loses, he can blame himself, first and foremost and secondly, the NC GOP. Don’t disagree. There are at least 2 factions in each county now and perhaps more. The Establishment types, the Conservatives (who are hated & despised by Raleigh, DC GOP) and now in my area we are seeing a NE corridor transplants, so-called ‘republicans’, that are liberal as heck but call themselves republicans. The Gen Assembly is wrought w/ the NCGOP that have lost much respect b/c of their bizarre actions, crimes/fraud and poor judgment. Dems taken full advantage, esp Cooper and likely will allow Cal to slip in; which is a travesty. BUT, running POOR candidates does that in-time. Look at big GOP, they ran Dole, McCain, Romney, same poor, Est, RINO, gentlemanly republicans. Forest made big mistake NOT taking Cooper to the woodshed on SO MANY ISSUES….they were laid on a sliver platter….WHERE IS JESSE????? Can you imagine Helms running against Cooper or Cal?????
You speak a lot of truth. I have tried repeatedly, along with other members like Rep. Michael Speciale, and some who might not want me to name them because they don’t need to get in trouble with our “leadership,” to tell “leadership” when they were messing up. But the elites just won’t listen to outsiders like us. We tried to tell them when they put forward a retention election to keep Justice Edmunds (sp?) on the State Supreme Court that it was unconstitutional; but they wouldn’t listen. They passed it over our objections because David Lewis, et al, knew more than we did. Well, guess what! The State Supreme Court, majority Republican at the time, ruled it unconstitutional, just as we said it was. To me, it was a Soviet style election idea. So then, when we convinced them to make most races partisan, Edmunds didn’t want an R by his name on the ballot, so they left the Supreme Court candidates unlabeled. Bye-bye, Edmunds. When the NBA, NCAA and a bunch of businesses put pressure on us to repeal HB 2, we told them they shouldn’t bow to the pressure. 38 of us, including Dan Bishop, the author of HB 2, voted not to repeal, but they did it. So we lost our supermajorities in both the House and Senate in the 2018 election. “Leadership” didn’t appreciate it much when I pointed out in caucus that December that of the ten seats we lost in the House, eight had voted to repeal HB 2. Now they want to bring some of them back. I told them then, “I keep telling you people that if you would stand up for conservative principles, you might find people crawling out of the woodwork to support you, who don’t bother now because you are no better than the Democrats.” Well, you can guess that didn’t go over very well, and I have been in the dog house ever since. (Actually, I have been there ever since Tillis was Speaker.) Nor will this post when they see it, of course. Well, I am past caring about that. I have to say I have gotten more support from “Leadership” in this general election than I might have expected. But I’m not that dumb. I know it is only because they are desperate to hold onto this seat. The problem between me and “Leadership,” jwmson, is that they are more interested in being seen as “diplomats,” and consider me an oddity because I am a warrior. Like you, I would like to see more warriors among our Republicans, who aren’t going around with their collective finger in the air or afraid of what the press might say about them. I have told them that I would rather lose an election because I did the right thing than to stay in Raleigh by doing the wrong thing or being afraid to stand up for what is right. So they say I am not a team player. Well, I AM a team player; but my team is the people who elected me. This is my last election, win or lose, and they are glad not to have to try to contain me anymore after 2020 or 2022. But I hope more warriors for our people will rise up in the Republican Party going forward. Thank God, since we don’t have Jesse Helms or Ronald Reagan anymore, we do have Donald Trump. I’m a lot like him and Jesse, just without the money. I hope more Republican candidates get elected who learn from their example. I have won four elections while being outfunded an average of 8-1; and they are bewildered as to why. I think I just told you. My people know I go to Raleigh to fight for them, not compromise with the left. Maybe I won’t win this time. We’ll see. But if I do, I will continue the fight for justice and freedom for one last term, and not care who wants to put me down or marginalize me for it. If I don’t, I will have been in Raleigh for some 9 years. Who would have thought I would have been there for 9 seconds?
And now we ‘count’ ballots 9-days post election. Last time, corruption & fraud occurred at midnight! Can you imagine knowing you have 9-days? Expect few R’s crossing finishing line as a winner unless the margin is a rout. Close race, Dem seated. Tillis likely just lost & Forest will have no shot at winning.