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Sorry, mayor, you can’t close churches permanently: De Blasio’s wild overreaction to houses of worship that buck social distancing (NY Daily News)
One could forgive any mayor for being frustrated with those putting the health of others in jeopardy by refusing to engage in social distancing during this global pandemic. But, at a press conference Friday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio singled out churches and synagogues, threatening to “permanently” close them if they hold a worship service and don’t disperse. [Read More]
RPV Asks Northam to Explain Order Timeline and Impact on Voting (Fairfax County Republican Party)
Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) Chairman Jack Wilson is challenging Governor Ralph Northam to share “the reasoning behind arbitrarily setting the ‘stay at home’ order to expire on June 10, 2020.”
The Commonwealth’s primary election for U.S. Senate (effectively a GOP-only event this year) is scheduled to be held on June 9, 2020, which is also the deadline for nominating all federal candidates.
“In these challenging times, we want to give the Governor the freedom to make necessary decisions without partisan rancor, but the timeline seems all too convenient,” Mr. Wilson said on Tuesday. “We ask that Governor Northam show us the data that led to his decision. It is not our opinion that the Governor is purposefully engaging in voter suppression, but an explanation would help to mitigate any concerns.” [Read More]
Our leadership class responded to the outbreak of the coronavirus by shutting down the economy on a nationwide scale. While this will mitigate the loss of life the virus might otherwise have caused, it’s clear we’re also confronting a challenge no medical innovation can cure. We face an unprecedented situation — not a global pandemic, we’ve seen those before, but a modern capitalist economy that turned itself off for potentially more than 60 days, on purpose.
Uncertainty crushes hope. So the question on the minds of our leaders should be: how do we give citizens more confidence that we can, and will, turn the economy back on? [Read More]
Shorter Birx: China lied, people died pic.twitter.com/4ehGZbKF5R
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 31, 2020
