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… Read more »
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.