MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Vanessa Romo @ NPR.org, July 16, 7:19 pm
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing the Atlanta City Council and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms following her efforts to require face masks in public places as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to skyrocket across the nation.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, asserts that Kemp alone "leads the State of Georgia in its fight against the worldwide novel coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic" and adds he has the power "to suspend municipal orders that are contradictory to any state law or to his executive orders."
"As the Mayor of the City of Atlanta, Mayor Bottoms does not have the legal authority to modify, change or ignore Governor Kemp's executive orders," the document says.
The suit follows an order this week in which Kemp forbade municipal officials from setting mandatory face-covering policies.
"This lawsuit is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and their hardworking employees who are struggling to survive during these difficult times," Kemp tweeted [....]
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He also did this on the same day( and he's wearing a mask in the photo they used)
Kemp signs bills to extend maternal Medicaid, limit ‘surprise billing'
@ AJC.com, 9 hrs. ago
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 3:53am
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 4:25am
More on this story ....
Analysis: Behind the rift between Atlanta's mayor and Georgia's governor
then there is from today's AJC.
KEMP SUES ATLANTA OVER MASK MANDATE - https://t.co/cbJ9FM7TXv" / Twitter
Its concluding paragraphs are rather chilling.
by EmmaZahn on Fri, 07/17/2020 - 6:50am
Two judges recuse themselves in Kemp-Bottoms mask mandate case, hearing canceled for today
@ WSBTV.com, July 21, 6:03 pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 9:57pm