Rural Tennessee mayors feeling the squeeze as Gov. Bill Lee delegates mask rules to them [View all]
Two more Tennessee county mayors enacted first-time mask mandates on Friday afternoon ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, citing rising COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations.
Grainger County and Claiborne County mayors are getting considerable community blowback after instituting mask mandates.
“Mayor Mike Byrd take your so called mandate and stick it. Free people live free you tyrant,” one post on the Facebook page of the Town of Bean Station in Grainger County said.
“You can not make us wear a mask. You do not tell us what to do,” a post directed at Mayor Joe Brooks in neighboring Claiborne County said. Both counties are located in rural areas of northeast Tennessee.
Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/11/24/rural-tennessee-county-mayors-feeling-the-squeeze-as-gov-bill-lee-leaves-mask-rules-to-them/
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