The California city of Atwater with 30,000 residents has declared itself a sanctuary from Governor Newsom’s ‘stay-at-home’ policies. They’ve gone rogue and they’re a sanctuary for all businesses.
The rural Central Valley city of Atwater has declared itself a “sanctuary city” for businesses and churches that want to reopen in defiance of the California shelter-in-place policy aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
The City Council heard from a parade of business owners, pastors and residents on Friday who described pandemic-related hardships. Many insisted they could be responsible and keep the community safe by following safe practices like wearing face masks and keeping social distance.
A tearful Donald Covington, president of the Old Town Atwater Association, said businesses need to get up and running. “People are starving. Two family members have two small businesses, with small children and no income,” he added. “We need to do this today.”
“If they don’t open up, they’re going to be in a really bad state, and we’re going to have bankruptcies and foreclosures and we’re just going to have families that are decimated financially,” said Chamber of Commerce President Don Borgwardt, who is also a local pastor and made a plea for people to be allowed back inside houses of worship.
People in California are very frustrated with Gavin Newsom’s impossible demands. Now he’s demanding zero deaths before he opens. The criteria has become impossible to meet.
The mayor has had enough.
“It’s time to do the right thing and listen to the people who put us here,” Mayor Paul Creighton said. “We want you guys to survive and thrive. It’s really critical that the electeds in this country and especially this state start listening to you.”
The message is businesses should follow the guidelines but they need to open.
What do you think?
American citizens will lead us out of this nightmare, not our politicians.
Not succumbing to unconstitutional edicts from Little Hitler isn’t going rogue, it is following the Constitution.
The guidelines are ineffective for preventing illness. If they were effective there would be zero cases if ALL illnesses.
An exaggeration, but you would expect ZERO transmission of ALL diseases, right?
bluecat57… but, you are applying ‘logic’… big mistake…
The ‘Newsom is a model for Corrupt Politicos, like his “Aunt Nancy…yes, he’s Her Nephew.’ What the objective is with Corrupt Dems is to “Keep People Isolated until the Day Before the Election, and claim they worry about the virus, UH NO, this is a planned thing to KEEP people inside their homes, and then “Declare that we MUST HAVE MAIL IN BALLOTS(So surprise, the Corrupt Dems can ‘CHEAT IN ANOTHER ELECTION”, BY USING MAIL INS, FOR PRISONERS THEY LET OUT OF JAIL, ILLEGAL ALIENS, THAT HERE IN CA. HAVE THE DMV GIVING THEM LICENSES AND THUS, ‘THEY WILL VOTE W/THAT LICENSE, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT CITIZENS.
My suggestion is to have POTUS Trump(they are trying to oust) have “ICE Agents outside ALL OUR voter locales, with a Parked Van to Pick up any Illegals that have already broken our laws, but are being rewarded by Dems with OUR TAX DOLLARS, Newsom is STEALING FROM WE THE CA. AMERICAN CITIZENS. I WANT TO SEE NEWSOM REMOVED FROM OFFICE W/THE MANY PETITIONS AGAINST HIM, FOR MANY THINGS-INCLUDING THE ONE “BILLION HE PAID TO CHINA FOR MASKS-WHEN HE COULD HAVE BOUGHT THEM HERE IN AMERICA FROM CO’S THAT ARE MAKING THEM(AZ., ETC.)
The corrupt Dems have been “Harvesting Registrations, and when the Illegals sign the forms, the corrupt ‘harvesters’ fill out the ballots.” ALL THESE NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM OUR ELECTION-IT IS CROOKED, BUT AGAIN, IT’S WHAT “DEMS DO IN ALL ELECTIONS-CHEAT, BUT WE THE PEOPLE MUST STOP IT ALL. GOOD FOR ATWATER(USED TO LIVE NEXT TO IT, IN GLENDALE YRS. AGO….NICE LITTLE TOWN, AND I WISH THEM GOOD LUCK. STAY SAFE AND GOOD FOR YOU IN FIGHTING THIS “FAKE ISOLATION’ DEMS WANT TO KEEP GOING!!
Hopefully the Californian electorate will remember who the tyrants have been during this pandemic. The dems have done a horrible job in California and very much needs to swing back to being a red state.
Keep in mind Californica election cheating (voter harvesting) gave the Dems the House in 2018. They are world class experts at lying, crime and racism.
These same California liberals would climb over a,mountain of aborted babies to vote these jackwads right back into office.
Yep, you Californicators need to remember this stuff next November…..
You vote these people IN and they bend you over!!
REMEMBER!!!!!
Yes! The people have found that bumpy thing along their back called a spine.
Go eat some dogsh1t tacos Karen Newsome.
People have invested for decades into their businesses to now have to foreclose because of the Governor and his team of experts
Great. Just do it safely.and within reason.
Oh, please! LIFE is a fatal condition! Get over it or move to a cave somewhere and die afraid.
Precisely! All the hysteria is proving to be unfounded. The public was continually shown faulty models, which instilled unfounded fears. Yes, this Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus has the possibility of killing a person, but random population sampled statistics are showing the overall fatality rate for this Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus is around the same rate as the seasonal flu. If we look at those below 55 years-of-age, the rate is much lower. Further, this “flattening” nonsense was not intended to eliminate the Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus, but to not overwhelm hospitals. What people do not understand, this same “flattening” nonsense, just extended the problem out longer. Additionally, just because someone tested for this damnable Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus, does not immediately mean they will need hospitalization and/or will die, for most will not have any symptoms or very mild symptoms.
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