Good day all. Recently there was a bit of a kerfuffle in Idaho when the Lieutenant Governor, acting as Governor while the Governor was out of state, issued an executive order ending mask mandates in the state.
As soon as the TransRepublican govno returned, he undid the order and reinstated the order to wear masks. This has set up an interesting conflict between the Lieutenant Governor and the Govno. Here are the details from the New York Post:
Idaho’s Republican Gov. Brad Little reversed an order from his lieutenant governor that outlawed all mask mandates in the state Friday — then ripped her action as an “irresponsible, self-serving political stunt” that “amounts to tyranny.”
Would you care to explain to us peons how removing a mandate of questionable legal and constitutional standing is tyranny? It seems to me that forcing people to wear masks that don’t actually do anything is more like tyranny to me.
Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin issued the order Thursday while Little was attending the annual Republican Governors Association conference in Nashville.
Under Idaho’s Constitution, the lieutenant governor is the acting governor and has the power to issue executive orders while the governor is out of state, though it is not clear whether that power had been used before.
Well, there has to be a first time, and showing the people of the state of Idaho that the governor they thought cared about freedom, doesn’t.
McGeachin’s order took effect at 11 a.m. Thursday, hours before Little returned from Nashville to, as he put it, “clean up a mess.”
“I have opposed a statewide mask mandate all along because I don’t think top-down mandates change behavior the way personal choice does,” the governor said in a statement, adding that McGeachin’s order was “contrary to a basic conservative principle – the government closest to the people governs best.”
Wrong RINO. While local government is closer to the people, as we’ve been seeing for the last 18 months, they’ve been lying to them and ignoring their desires. There is nothing “Conservative” about forcing people to do something that doesn’t have any proven benefit, and interferes with their individual liberties and rights. The way it should have gone was simple. If you wanted to wear a mask, feel free to so. Just leave other people alone.
Little also argued that “[t]aking the earliest opportunity to act solitarily on a highly politicized, polarizing issue without conferring with local jurisdictions, legislators, and the sitting Governor is, simply put, an abuse of power.”
Wrong again Moonbat. An abuse of power would be ordering people to do something they didn’t want to. In this case, the Lieutenant Governor did just the opposite. She ended the forced masking of people, but didn’t forbid them from wearing them if they so chose.
The governor went on to claim that McGeachin’s order would have done away with safety requirements for social workers visiting homes of at-risk individuals, at the state testing lab, or at prisons that could have been hit with coronavirus outbreaks. He added that McGeachin’s executive order conflicts with existing laws and told her: “This is why you do your homework, Lt. Governor.”
One of the reasons that Lt. Governor McGeachin did this, besides being the right thing to do, is to show how she would govern if she were the governor of Idaho. She set Govno Little up very nicely and he took the bait.
“I understand that protecting individual liberty means fighting against tyranny at ALL levels of government — federal, state, and local,” she wrote. “It is your God-given right to make your own health decisions, and no state, city, or school district ever has the authority to violate your unalienable rights.”
Lt. Governor McGeachin didn’t stop with a virtual single knife thrust. She also turned the blade as it were.
In a subsequent tweet, McGeachin noted that the Idaho Democratic Party endorsed Little’s move, writing: “When the [D]emocrat party is applauding your actions, especially in a state like Idaho, you pretty much lose the right to call yourself a conservative.”
Meanwhile, the Idaho Attorney General looks to be trying to thread the needle.
An Idaho attorney general’s office opinion made public Friday found that while McGeachin had the authority to issue the order, it appeared to run counter to both the Idaho Constitution and statutory executive order authority.
“[O]ddly,” the opinion read in part, “it seems to have been issued in an effort to undermine the existing authorities of the state and its political subdivisions to issue mask mandates.”
I’m not any sort of expert on the Idaho Constitution, and will leave discussions about it up to people from that state. I will say that the Attorney general’s statement has to be one of the most wishy washy ones I’ve seen in a while. Either the Lt. Governor had the authority to issue the order or she didn’t. Which is it?
Well, Lt. Governor McGeachin has fired a shot across the bow of Govno Little and is setting things up to push him out of office during the Primary. I have no idea what the general opinion of the resident of Idaho towards either of these to is, but in my opinion, based on what little I know, he might have a few problems down the road. Still, it looks like he’s in office until 2024. Perhaps he might learn a few things. Somehow. I doubt he will.
Thatisall
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