Texans are getting wise to the games politicians play; take Governor Greg Abbott and vaccine mandates.
First, vaccine mandates in multiple forms are present in Texans, including their most brazen iteration on hospital workers, soldiers including those currently deployed to the border, and thousands of private employees.
The mechanics of this mandate are simple, take the shot or you’re fired.
Last week it was reported that the Office of Surgeon for Texas National Guard has informed leaders in the Texas military it’s their job to convince soldiers to get vaccinated.
The Texas GOP has called for a fourth special session to outlaw all mandates. Three of Abbott’s primary opponents Don Huffines, Chad Prather, and Allen West have pledged to end mandates and call a special session.
In response, Governor Abbott has cut a campaign commercial claiming to have already done a job that’s plainly not been done.
Because, as it turns out, signing a piece of paper and saying vaccine mandates are banned doesn’t do the job when there’s no enforcement mechanism, and the Office of the Governor continues to ignore that Texans are losing their jobs daily right now. In order for there to be a true vaccine mandate ban in Texas the following are required: legislative action, executive enforcement, and judicial review. Texas currently has none of those.
For comparison's sake, the New York Times recently profiled Texas and Florida. The proof is in the pudding; Disney suspended it’s vaccine mandate for employees in Florida, while BP (and others) in Texas are requiring workers to be vaccinated or tested twice weekly.
Parsing words might be smart politics as long as nobody is paying attention but Texas politicians should know Texas for Vaccine Choice is locked in.
While too many Texas politicians, including Governor Abbott, pretend mandates don’t apply, Biden’s FDA has been asked to expand the EUA for the Pfizer COVID-19 shot to children ages 6 months through 4 years. (See our Action Alert on this.)
We’re gearing up ahead of the primary to educate voters on where their candidates stand on the issue.
Texas needs leaders who aren’t interested in playing cat and mouse games with citizen rights. TFVC is here, as always, to tell the truth about who the true medical freedom leaders are in Texas.
With you in the fight, Team TFVC
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