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Marjorie Taylor Greene hit with third fine for not wearing mask on House floor

Stevicus

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Marjorie Taylor Greene hit with third fine for not wearing mask on House floor (nbcnews.com)

She's racked up a total of $5500 in fines.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., an outspoken opponent of masking and Covid-19 vaccination mandates, was fined Monday for a third time over her refusal to comply with House rules about face coverings.

The House Ethics Committee published a notice saying Greene will have to pay a financial penalty for an incident on Sept. 21, when she did not wear a mask on the House floor. The fine is $500 for a first offense and $2,500 for each subsequent violation.

Greene, who apologized in Junefor comparing mask rules to the Holocaust, did not appeal the fine.

Greene was first fined in May as part of a group of House Republicans who refused to wear masks and again for an incident in the House on Sept. 8.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., recently complained about her lack of a mask at a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland last week.

Greene was defiant in a statement to NBC News on Monday, saying, "I'm taking a stand on the House floor because I don't want the people to stand alone."

The Ethics Committee also announced that Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., had been fined for breaking the same rule. He did not appeal.

Clyde's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tom Rust, the Ethics Committee's staff director, declined to comment on the actions.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., mandated masks on the advice of the House physician last year. The mandate was lifted in June, but it was restored in late July with the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus.

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She could show up in a space suit next time. That should be enough to comply with the mask mandate.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Marjorie Taylor Greene hit with third fine for not wearing mask on House floor (nbcnews.com)

She's racked up a total of $5500 in fines.







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She could show up in a space suit next time. That should be enough to comply with the mask mandate.
Good. It's a stand for personal freedom of choice and she's complying with the mandate in the process unless she's refuses to pay the fines.

It should be enough to just have her temp quickly tested that she's not running a fever, and answering a few health questions.

Personally I think she ought to wear the mask though.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
If my job crossed my moral lines, I'd get a new job.
The lines would be, "Can a company dictate what people can and cannot do with their own bodies and person under any threat or sanction"?

Better still if a person of unusual intelligence and or ability refuses, what would likely happen?

It's not like putting in a want ad to replace this rare type of person.


Think Enstien or Hawkings level.
 

Revoltingest

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The lines would be, "Can a company dictate what people can and cannot do with their own bodies and person under any threat or sanction"?
Can an employee dictate that the company must
allow disease carrying employees to infect others?
Anti-vaxers are so obsessed with their entitlement
to do as the please on the job, but they care little
for the rights of their employer to set job requirements
to ensure safety. Typhoid Mary was not right.

Consider also that anti-vaxers expect to be given
sick time with pay, & to cover their medical expenses
when they contract Covid. They should show some
responsibility, & not become a needless burden.
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Can an employee dictate that the company must
allow disease carrying employees to infect others?
Anti-vaxers are so obsessed with their entitlement
to do as the please on the job, but they care little
for the rights of their employer to set job requirements
to ensure safety.
Consider also that anti-vaxers expect to give them
sick time with pay, & to cover their medical expenses
when they contract Covid. They should show some
responsibility, & not become a needless burden.
I'd like to see that if it involves a key individual that would be almost impossible to replace at great detriment and or damage if such a person would leave.
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
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The lines would be, "Can a company dictate what people can and cannot do with their own bodies and person under any threat or sanction"?

Better still if a person of unusual intelligence and or ability refuses, what would likely happen?

It's not like putting in a want ad to replace this rare type of person.


Think Enstien or Hawkings level.

Its a piece of clothing. That's all.

I had to wear a flap of fabric in my shirt at my old job to prevent showing cleavage. Did I like it? No. But because I desired employment, I complied.

Its not that big of a deal.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Its a piece of clothing. That's all.

I had to wear a flap of fabric in my shirt at my old job to prevent showing cleavage. Did I like it? No. But because I desired employment, I complied.

Its not that big of a deal.
Maybe for you or me it isn't all that problematic but others might not see it in that regard.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Not when it violates personal choice.

A simple test ought to suffice.
"Personal choice" isn't an absolute right.
I once fired a guy for showing up drunk.
(His choice was entirely unacceptable.)
I'd fire someone for showing up unvaccinated against a dangerous
pandemic. Why? The danger posed to tenants & co-workers.
Also, an unvaccinated employee is more costly in downtime
& reduced productivity if they become a Covid long hauler with
lingering maladies, eg, brain fog.
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
"Personal choice" isn't an absolute right.
I once fired a guy for showing up drunk.
I'd fire someone for showing up unvaccinated against a dangerous
pandemic. Why? The danger posed to tenants & co-workers.
Also, an unvaccinated employee is more costly in downtime
& reduced productivity if they become a Covid long hauler with
lingering maladies, eg, brain fog.
Replaceable ones sure.

Your loss if it's someone valuable and has skills hardly no one else possesses and cannot be replaced easily.

Like a person working at Moog. Top level clearances. Rocket science types.
 
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