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TexasTowelie

(116,413 posts) Sat Nov 28, 2020, 12:13 AM Nov 2020

Rural Tennessee mayors feeling the squeeze as Gov. Bill Lee delegates mask rules to them

Two more Tennessee county mayors enacted first-time mask mandates on Friday afternoon ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, citing rising COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations.

Grainger County and Claiborne County mayors are getting considerable community blowback after instituting mask mandates.

“Mayor Mike Byrd take your so called mandate and stick it. Free people live free you tyrant,” one post on the Facebook page of the Town of Bean Station in Grainger County said.

“You can not make us wear a mask. You do not tell us what to do,” a post directed at Mayor Joe Brooks in neighboring Claiborne County said. Both counties are located in rural areas of northeast Tennessee.

Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/11/24/rural-tennessee-county-mayors-feeling-the-squeeze-as-gov-bill-lee-leaves-mask-rules-to-them/

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Rural Tennessee mayors feeling the squeeze as Gov. Bill Lee delegates mask rules to them (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2020 OP

I got a mandate for them. rickford66 Nov 2020 #1

Talk about passing the buck. How stupid to go city/county to city/county underpants Nov 2020 #2

I have seen proud boys motorcycle gangs in Claiborne Co. peacebuzzard Nov 2020 #3

rickford66

(5,638 posts)

1. I got a mandate for them.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Nov 28, 2020, 12:20 AM

Nov 2020

Women must be covered from the waist up to the neck at all times in public. Think they'll obey ? If they do, they have no argument about masks. If they don't it should be interesting.

underpants

(186,298 posts)

2. Talk about passing the buck. How stupid to go city/county to city/county

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Nov 28, 2020, 06:18 AM

Nov 2020

That’s really Lilly livered of the Governor.

We’re driving through Tennessee today. Should be in Tennessee for 3-4 hours. We’ll probably need to make a stop. Man, they fly in Tennessee- I go 75 and they are blowing my doors off. Morning in the Smokie Mountains though.

peacebuzzard

(5,228 posts)

3. I have seen proud boys motorcycle gangs in Claiborne Co.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Nov 28, 2020, 07:09 PM

Nov 2020

wearing Nazi style helmets and running in a pack of maybe 15.
It's a deep red county, and borders remote east KY.
There would certainly be many infractions of the mandate in Claiborne as well as the neighbor county, Grainger.

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