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Greg Abbott Defies Joe Biden and Throws
Southwest Airlines a Lifeline

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 10/12/2021 12:11:16 AM

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has made another move against nonsensical COVID policies. Today, he signed an executive order banning vaccine mandates by any entity in the state. This would hit corporations that have begun to follow federal guidelines to mandate vaccines for all their employees. And though an official rule from OSHA has yet to materialize as threatened, Abbott’s move is in direct defiance of Joe Biden. This comes in the midst of a meltdown happening at Southwest Airlines over a coming vaccine mandate in November. Reports continue to indicate that employees of the Texas-based air carrier are using sick days in anticipation

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Trigger2 10/12/2021 1:05:05 AM (No. 942680)
Good for Abbott. It's beyond time to shut down Joey's rediculous mandates.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mifla 10/12/2021 3:13:47 AM (No. 942711)
Keep telling the Feds to go pound sand.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 10/12/2021 5:26:18 AM (No. 942758)
Mandates are NOT laws. We do not have a king or a dictator....yet. Ignore them!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: judy 10/12/2021 8:15:12 AM (No. 942876)
Masks, schools, elections ...now vaccines...next. They got rid of Trump & they're still not happy..You can't ever please a dem, you give them an inch they take a mile! It's not about covid, it's about winning elections...forever...
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Reply 5 - Posted by: TXknitter 10/12/2021 8:42:19 AM (No. 942899)
I had not even thought of it myself before but Abbott should have gone ahead and done this BEFORE a Southwest mess could happen. He knows what was happening with Southwest and things were going to boil over. However, I am only complimenting him here for moving fast now. THANK YOU GOVERNOR ABBOTT.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Mr. Know-It-All 10/12/2021 8:44:27 AM (No. 942902)
I'm sure some bambi appointed over reaching judge somewhere will soon issue an edict against Abbott's order. The peasants must be shown who the real boss is... FJB
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Reply 7 - Posted by: moebellini3 10/12/2021 9:54:20 AM (No. 942978)
That's great, now all he has to do is start rebuilding the border wall.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Bluefindad 10/12/2021 10:39:20 AM (No. 943025)
What about the Texas hospital staff who were fired?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 10/12/2021 11:04:26 AM (No. 943044)
My governor did this months ago, along with banning mask and passport mandates. Every red state governor should do this and then we can sit back and watch the blue states go down the toilet.
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