Ricketts says state would sue if health director required masks in Douglas County

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Jeffrey Robb , Joe Dejka , Nancy Gaarder

LINCOLN — The State of Nebraska would have challenged an Omaha mask mandate in court, Gov. Pete Ricketts acknowledged Monday, filling in a key detail in last week’s unexpected turnabout from Douglas County’s health director on a local mask order.

Health Director Adi Pour, at a Friday press conference, cited “legal disagreements” between the state and the Omaha City Attorney’s Office in deciding to drop her push toward a mask mandate. She said the dispute had surfaced only in the previous 72 hours.

Ricketts, at a Monday press conference, said he had several conversations with Pour over the issue. Ricketts said officials in the Governor’s Office and Attorney General’s Office walked through why they didn’t believe she had legal authority to mandate masks.

“If she moved forward, we would challenge that in court,” Ricketts said.

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[beachbumbob]

1. Health director needs to do what is right and let Nebraska gop

Kill and injure their citizens.

[Botany]

2. When did a science and a public health problem become political?

The republicans are gonna get ground into dust this year even in many red states too.

C-19 goes right back to Trump and Trump goes right back to those who support him
such as anti masker Gov. Pete Ricketts.

We are gonna have > 250,000 dead by election day and it will all be on the GOP.

[yuiyoshida]

5. I bet it was with the

Anti Vaxers... who refused to vaccinate their kids... and the notion that people who were very intelligent were just "Egg Heads" who really knew nothing or had no real common sense. These are the lies that's been told since the Reagan administration, (Probably) to these people in the very Red States.

One woman actually said that the mask prevents CO2 from escaping and you will suffocate.. when asked how Doctors manage to survive during long long operations, she said, "well they take breaks don't they?" ...

[Botany]

6. A lot of this crap started with 2 things Reagan getting rid of the fairness doctrine and the ....

... purposeful destruction of quality public education. Watch basic cable and you can see much
of it is geared to the right wing dumb fucks.

[elleng]

7. Yes

[tinymontgomery]

8. Isn't there a way if we take control

Isn't there a way if we take control why couldn't
bring back the Fairness Doctrine?

[hibbing]

3. Remember those death panels?

We are watching them being implemented in real time by people whose kids have never, nor will ever attend a public school.


Ricketts, another inherited money member of the ruling class.


Peace

[yuiyoshida]

4. OMG... Republicans really and truly are a DEATH CULT...they want as Many Americans to die

as possible. I never thought I would ever grow up in this kind of America... what the History books talked about it could never happen here...Fascism comes to AMERICA... IF Trump wins, this country may have another Civil War, after that we will be a shit hole country...

BLUE TSUNAMI YO!!

[Ford_Prefect]

9. No Shoes, No shirt, No mask, No Service. No Shit!

Why is this even a question? The law and the City, County, and State health ordinances make this clear. Where does the fecking Governor get off pretending to be medically qualified?

[aggiesal]

10. And I'm a Cubs fan! n/t

[kimbutgar]

11. I think this director should still go and recommend the wearing of masks for public safety

If you want to protect yourself and your family please wear a mask. Appeal to their common sense. Then when the anti maskers start getting sick tell them I told you so.

I’m beginning to believe these anti science people need to experience the consequences of their ignorance.

[Stuart G]

12. Another example of a Republican who is stupid..and more stupid ...and more stupid...When we think

we have seen real "stupid" there is always...."more stupid"........