New Mexico mayor vows to reopen city despite lockdown order

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The mayor of a small New Mexico city announced Thursday that he will allow small businesses to reopen next week in defiance of the governor's order that shuttered nonessential businesses to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.



Grants Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks said he's giving businesses permission to reopen on Monday and is ordering the police force in the city of about 9,000 people to prevent any State Police officers from issuing lockdown violation citations.

“The governor is killing us. She’s totally killing us,” Hicks said. “So we have no choice. So right now, we are reopening. Let State Police come down here.”

Hicks made the announcement after 81 businesses in Grants signed a petition calling for the reopening of the city that sits on historic Route 66, about an hour west of Albuquerque.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-mayor-vows-to-reopen-city-despite-lockdown-order/ar-BB1364Gf

It's the dude!

[marybourg]

1. I hope the first State Police officer who's interfered with

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carts the lot of them off to the state pen.