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Mon Apr 27, 2020, 05:46 AM Apr 2020

Lujan Grisham fires back at Grants mayor

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham had sharp words Friday afternoon for the mayor of Grants, who has vowed to allow businesses in the small city to reopen Monday — a decision that would be in direct violation of a state public health order.

“This notion that you don’t have to comply is wrong. That you can just open up businesses and not worry about public health issues is really quite frankly tantamount to opening up a public pool and having a pee section,” Lujan Grisham said in a nearly two-hour news conference.

“This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, flies in the face of every single positive, productive, evidence-based public health effort and, quite frankly, I happen to know that the county commission is incredibly upset by these directions.”

The governor warned Friday that if businesses choose to follow Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks’ advice to defy state law by reopening Monday, they will be fined accordingly.

Read more: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/lujan-grisham-fires-back-at-grants-mayor/article_f219e494-8662-11ea-bd4f-e3978b863f47.html

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Lujan Grisham fires back at Grants mayor (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2020 OP
"tantamount to opening up a public pool and having a pee section" -- Great metaphor! . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #1
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