One Arizona Republican governor is fighting hard against vaccine mandates and the latest COVID-19 scams. But two Democrat mayors are challenging him. Why? Because in Arizona, like anywhere else in America, Democrats must create an atmosphere of fear and foreboding over the tired old virus. It’s their main shtick these days.
FNC: “Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order on Thursday that bans local or state governments from creating their own coronavirus vaccine mandates. ‘No person shall be required by this state, or any city, town or county to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine,’ the order states.
The governor will allow health care institutions to mandate the vaccine, however. Ducey renewed the local government vaccine mandate ban, which had recently expired. According to Fox 10 Phoenix, the City of Phoenix required every city worker to get vaccinated, regardless of remote work status or a previous positive coronavirus test result. The mandate would have required city workers to be vaccinated by Jan. 18.”
Phoenix tried to pull this little maneuver. “In order to be considered compliant, employees will be required to submit a completed vaccination card with two completed doses for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one completed dose for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Booster doses are not required at this time,” read a letter sent to city workers on Nov. 18. “Employees not in compliance with the COVID-19 vaccine requirement by January 18, 2022 will be contacted and subject to progressive discipline up to and including termination.” But the governor struck back.
“COVID mandates of any kind – whether they concern masks or vaccines – have proven to be divisive and counterproductive. Governor Ducey believes Arizonans can and should make their own decisions about their healthcare, not an overreaching federal or city government,” the Ducey spox said. But Tucson disagrees.
“He has no authority to preempt local actions through executive orders. Our employees answered that call to protect each other and protect our community,” Tucson Mayor Romero said.
Arizona Governor @dougducey needs to focus on the crisis at hand and do his job as COVID-19 cases rise and ICU beds dwindle. Attorney @GeneralBrnovich already told Gov. Ducey what he doesn’t want to hear. He has no authority to preempt local actions through executive orders. pic.twitter.com/bx3YawIJE4
— Regina Romero (@TucsonRomero) December 17, 2021
“Tucson’s vaccine mandate is illegal, and the city could be held liable for attempting to force employees to take it against their beliefs,” Arizona AG Brnovich said in a press release. “COVID-19 vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate.” Ducey had earlier strongly commented on the subject.
“Joe Biden has failed us on COVID. He ran for office on a promise to ‘shut down the virus.’ He has failed on this, much as he has failed on the border crisis and in Afghanistan. So now, President Biden’s plan is to shut down freedom,” Ducey said. “COVID-19 is a contagious disease, it is still with us and it will be for the foreseeable future. President Biden’s solution is hammering down on private businesses and individual freedoms in an unprecedented and dangerous way.”
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My brother lives in Tucson, wants no part of Regina Romero’s tyrannical measures. He knows of a vaccine death in Tucson and is well stocked with Ivermectin.
Arizona is way too close to the cancer that is California. How do I know this? I lived in AZ for 20+ years.
I’m not a lawyer but i think the AZ AG is wrong about the guvs power to supersede local mandates. He’s the gov …for the entire state. He absolutely has the power.
Hooray Go Red States or cities awesome
The virus is NOT a pandemic! The mortality rate rivals that of the common flu! And the Omicron variant is supposedly even less deadly! They cannot logically, nor constitutionally require everyone to get the jab. My cousin nearly died from the vaccine with MASSIVE pulmonary embolisms in both lungs, and squeezing his heart, and blocking his right ventricle! It’s a miracle he’s even alive today, all staff that talked to him had only seen this in post mortem patients! On top of that, one of my brothers got the vaccine, and it destroyed his lungs, and is now riddled with cancer!! Hospitals are firing employees that try to track the side effects of the vaccine!!!! And who stands to make all kinds of money? Big pharma. They took out patents on the Covid virus the second it was created, making them the only ones to be able to create the vaccines! And with the government tyrannical overreach against our constitution, they’re trying to force us to get the vaccines, even though they are NOT guaranteed to work! And big pharma is immune to prosecution, making us lab rats at this point!!!! I will NEVER… NEVER… get the vaccine, I don’t care what they do to me, but nothing is worse than being forced to inject yourself with something you have a constitutional right AGAINST, especially when it could kill you! Otherwise, THAT’S NOT FREEDOM! THAT’S TYRANNY! Stand united against this invasion of our rights and our lives! Covid is here until it’s not, it may never go away. The mortality rate simply does not warrant what they’re trying to force, and it’s especially nowhere near pandemic levels as they keep trying to brainwash us with. Fauci has already been proven to be nothing but a liar! Him, and the CDC simply have no idea what they’re talking about, they’re just guessing! Even masks have been proven to not work! It’s nothing but a power grab, plain and simple. That, and plus the insane amounts of money big pharma is making off this… like Bill Gates.
Stand united against this tyranny, and the continued erosion of our rights.