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TexasTowelie

(111,290 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 05:54 AM May 2020

Gov. strikes back at GOP state senators urging lifting of health orders

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham refused Republican state senators’ calls to fully reopen the economy Tuesday, blasting their demands as “reckless” and “anti-scientific bluster.”

Thirteen of New Mexico’s 16 Republican state senators sent a letter to the governor Monday urging her to completely lift all public health orders by Wednesday morning.

They argued the impact of the novel coronavirus has not “risen to the levels initially thought by many experts.”

Lujan Grisham lambasted the senators’ demands as an “utter failure and unflinching surrender to the virus ravaging our communities” and rejected the notion the current U.S. COVID-19 death toll of approximately 90,000 people could be conceived of as a “mild or moderate outcome.”

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“Your reckless demand for a full-scale ‘re-opening,’ ” the governor wrote, “serves only to inflame misinformed public opinion, which is to risk further illness and likely death, death that will be lonely and all the more tragic because it was and is within our power to prevent.”

Read more: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/gov-strikes-back-at-gop-state-senators-urging-lifting-of-health-orders/article_28f8c50c-99ff-11ea-ae7c-f779039acc8e.html

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Gov. strikes back at GOP state senators urging lifting of health orders (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2020 OP
Michelle, Ma Belle Governor! You get what you deserve when you elect a Democrat! If you abqtommy May 2020 #1
Their argument is precisely what I feared would happen. Pacifist Patriot May 2020 #2
That makes sense hence the misunderstanding from kacekwl May 2020 #3

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
1. Michelle, Ma Belle Governor! You get what you deserve when you elect a Democrat! If you
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:06 AM
May 2020

elect a reTHUG you just get screwed!

Pacifist Patriot

(24,647 posts)
2. Their argument is precisely what I feared would happen.
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:00 AM
May 2020

They argued the impact of the novel coronavirus has not “risen to the levels initially thought by many experts.”

Maybe because of the shut down orders? Fucking morons!

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