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Texas Speaker: Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot
showing ‘disgusting disregard for the safety of others’

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Posted By: texaspast, 5/5/2020 3:41:42 PM

Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen warned Monday morning that major retail stores may be hindering the ability of smaller businesses to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic by not following guidelines to prevent the spread of the virus. "These owners are the engine moving the reopening of Texas forward so they can pay their bills and employees,” Bonnen wrote. "It is time we start calling out the retail giants for their disgusting disregard for the safety of others and the well-being of their neighboring businesses.”

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FTA:"I’m tired of navigating a germ pool in an overcrowded Lowe’s, Home Depot, and WalMart,” Bonnen said. "They haven’t dealt with the devastation of having to turn customers away and yet their behavior might be what keeps hair salons and gyms closed and restaurants at restricted capacity.” This is SUCH A CROCK! Even the Republican pols are eat up with it!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Rather Read 5/5/2020 3:45:33 PM (No. 401805)
My eyes are rolling. Navigating HomeDepot was like being a rat in a maze - plexiglass barrier everywhere, aisles blocked off and no one to answer my questions. It wasn't even crowded. So are we supposed to stay at home and starve?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: texaspast 5/5/2020 3:47:48 PM (No. 401808)
Yesterday I went to Lowe's. I had been previously when they had the 'waiting line' to get in - counting every person going in and out, making sure the people in the line were 6' apart, etc. Yesterday there was none of that. It seems that Lowe's had had enough of the politically correct garbage and just opened the doors! Yes, they still say 'observe social distancing' but YEA! I was able to get what I went for! I was quite proud of Lowes. Now how the heck this is keeping other stores from opening, I can't figure. It isn't Lowes that's the problem, it is the GOVERNOR who is shutting everything down. Speaker, you don't want to have to be in the same building with too many of us deplorables, DON'T GO TO LOWE'S! Again - explain to me how Lowe's not playing your 'limited number in store' game is keeping hair salons from opening???
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Reply 3 - Posted by: HPmatt 5/5/2020 3:58:30 PM (No. 401811)
Disgraced outgoing Texas House Speaker (R) Bonnen, not running for re-election because he offered to sell access/influence to a Texas Conservative, and then lied about pay-for-play.....has an issue with smaller businesses? I guess they did not pay his lobbyists enough to get a carve out.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 5/5/2020 4:00:32 PM (No. 401813)
I shopped at Home Depot here in the first weeks of this, employees wearing masks, nothing else different. I shopped at Lowes several times over a few weeks, but not in the last week or two. Plexiglass barriers between clerks and you, nothing else different. I can't read the article due to my adblocker.....and I'm not particularly unhappy with Home Depot or Lowes, but maybe things have changed in the last few weeks. I haven't needed anything lately.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MDConservative 5/5/2020 4:08:15 PM (No. 401820)
I've shopped at three different Home Depots, two Lowe's and two Walmarts in suburban Houston over the past few weeks. Bonnen is out to lunch with this nonsense. All these stores have their employees wearing masks, check outs mostly behind sneeze guards, with "sanitized" carts and hand wash generally available at the door. All I can say is Mr. Speaker, shut up!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: bgarrett 5/5/2020 4:09:41 PM (No. 401821)
Walmart and Lowes policies ARE disgusting. Counting people going in and marking aisles one way is STUPID. America wont develop herd immunity until we can move around freely. This corona mess is the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the world. Stupid Americans gave up our rights and freedoms without flinching!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DeplorableVet 5/5/2020 4:16:37 PM (No. 401830)
Maybe in Texas, but not in Georgia. I've been going to Lowe's about twice a week for the last month to get landscape supplies. Everyone is wearing masks, they have disinfectant and hand washing stations at the entrance, and the check out line is roped off with distance markers. I'm not the least bit concerned.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: RuckusTom 5/5/2020 4:22:25 PM (No. 401836)
To heck with that. Let small, "non-essential" businesses also engage in some of the "disregard".
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Reply 9 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 5/5/2020 4:36:08 PM (No. 401847)
I think it's probably their disgusting refusal to donate enough to Bonnen that bothers him.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Muguy 5/5/2020 4:45:27 PM (No. 401855)
I'm with #3! Speaker Bonnen needs to SHUT UP. His disgraceful influence peddling behind closed doors to offer Michael Quinn Sullivan media access in exchange for TRASHING incumbent republicans to put in HIS OWN butt kissers was wholly unethical and not representative of the large majority of republicans. Governor Abbott is doing a carefully (and painfully aggravating) PHASED IN re-opening of Texas businesses on a hard two-week at a time time line, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth! Mr. Bonnen has not resigned in disgrace because to do so would make a Dem the Speaker until the next election and he would be giving up too much authority granted to him by the Texas Constitution. There is a fake meme going around that Home Depot sold a controlling stock interest to Nobama, which is one of those attempts to get conservatives to jump in knee-jerk fashion-- its simply not true and nothing but "bait". I was in Lowe's the other day and all went well.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: LadyHen 5/5/2020 4:51:25 PM (No. 401860)
Well there is a solution to that. Set aside your draconian arbitrary rules, let all businesses open on their own terms, and let people take their own risks.. LIKE ADULTS! Your not our dad Dennis!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: glennbo 5/5/2020 4:56:00 PM (No. 401864)
The speaker is on Crack! Disgusting! Every flipp’n Home Depot, Lowe’s and Walmart I’ve been to has been a royal PITA with all the controls, waiting, distancing, etc. I don’t know what planet he’s on but it sure ain’t planet Texas!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 5/5/2020 5:03:07 PM (No. 401867)
I dislike having to shop at Home Depot these days. This queue outside the front door before they let you in is ridiculous. All of 10 people were in the store and we had to stand outside before being allowed inside. Then have to be "allowed" to leave. Going to try Ace Hardware and see if they have more common sense there. Ken Langone, what have your successors done to what was once a nice place to shop.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: franq 5/5/2020 5:08:09 PM (No. 401871)
Who was that masked man.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: john56 5/5/2020 5:09:38 PM (No. 401872)
Consider the source -- Speaker Bonnen announced he wasn't running for re-election (in a safe Republican seat) after over 30 Texas House Republicans said they would not support him for another term as speaker.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Ming 5/5/2020 5:09:50 PM (No. 401873)
Are we sure this guy's name isn't really Karen?
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Reply 17 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/5/2020 5:26:46 PM (No. 401883)
I have nothing but everlasting respect and gratitude to Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowes, all of whom have been there through our disaster after disasters occurrences along the Texas and Louisiana coastlines. They have always stayed open when nobody else did, and tried to get supplies to the people. The stores have adapted to almost anybody's fears. You can go in the store at Walmart, get it delivered, or pick it up. They have closed earlier to clean more thoroughly. I think that is about all anyone can do. The largest difficulty this disaster is that again these are the only stores open, and the disaster has gone on for months, and everyone is weary of it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: HPmatt 5/5/2020 5:40:50 PM (No. 401891)
Forgot to say - was in Lowe’s in Dallas south of Love Field yesterday - not busy, no lines, nice employees. In and out w/o hassle. Agree Abbott is dragging feet on opening all stores and allowing people to practice self-control.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: XCenturion 5/5/2020 5:45:01 PM (No. 401893)
What about the data? Exactly how many COVID-19 cases can be tied directly to people shopping at these businesses?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: heartlandconservative 5/5/2020 5:54:54 PM (No. 401899)
Note to Mr. Bonehead, If I wanna go and they are open that is my choice and not yours to make. Texas needs less like you and more like the leadership of those companies you so did like. And please be careful, your leftism is showing, some red neck might take exception. Yes, I am native born TEXAN.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: red1066 5/5/2020 6:21:38 PM (No. 401936)
Even if there were 200 people in a Lowe's or Home Depot, it still wouldn't be crowded. Besides, I'm still trying figure out why with everyone wearing masks, why we still need to be six feet apart.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: lisa belanger 5/5/2020 6:45:37 PM (No. 401961)
i diagree i go to h.d. sanitize carts, people have to wear mask distance is must and 1 way out with receipt they are on the alert same at wal mart 1 way in with mask they control how many people in and sanitize carts no 1 someone answered my questions art h.d. i have no problems in la quinta ca. or palm desert
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Reply 23 - Posted by: bad-hair 5/5/2020 6:46:28 PM (No. 401962)
RINO Not running for re-election because why waste the money. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out Dennis and I hope your horse BUCKs you OFF.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Petronius 5/5/2020 6:46:49 PM (No. 401964)
Politicians should not be paid when they shut the country down like this. They need to feel the same pain they are inflicting on everyone else.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: Rumblehog 5/5/2020 6:53:27 PM (No. 401973)
I was in both stores yesterday and each time I was handed a cart that had just been sanitized, plus, every employee in the store was wearing a mask, though I was not. This dumbarse needs to pound his head into the dirt.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Jethro bo 5/5/2020 6:59:21 PM (No. 401983)
Well, bumb arse, open up other businesses and the big box stores wil not be overcrowded. Its one way to increase adherence to socialist distancing. There wouldn't be over crowding if people had other choices!
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Reply 27 - Posted by: SALady 5/5/2020 7:02:05 PM (No. 401985)
There has not been a single outbreak of this stupid virus at any big-box store in Texas!!!!! Not a single outbreak!!!!! Nursing homes, yes!!! Big-box stores, absolutely not!!!!! And the big-box employees are exposed to thousands of customers every day, since there is nowhere else to go. I think politicians just have to talk to hear their own voices -- no matter how stupid the things are that they say!!!!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by: anniebc 5/5/2020 7:03:34 PM (No. 401989)
How stupid. It's not these stores hindering smaller businesses from opening; it's the Texas House Speaker and others like him. The silly six foot markers are ridiculous. You're in the store, moving around close to people the whole time. Until it's time to check out; then, it's six feet apart, people. Then, at the register, you're within one foot of the cashier. But, the six foot rule is going to keep you safe. It doesn't make sense. I refuse to put my trust in something just because you tell me it's keeping me safe. Miss me with that!
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Reply 29 - Posted by: Chuzzles 5/5/2020 8:56:05 PM (No. 402055)
Live with what you sowed Bonnen. If you don't like it out in the world, stay home and leave everyone else alone.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: 4Justice 5/6/2020 4:00:16 AM (No. 402224)
Dennis, you are a germ pool. I am tired of all this stupid overreaction. It is a flu. It's one of the tougher ones. But it is NOT the darn Black Death!! Get over it. It's time to get to work.
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Reply 31 - Posted by: kono 5/6/2020 2:00:39 PM (No. 402808)
That doesn't sound to me like a real Texan speaking.
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