Representative Danny McCormick (R) Oil City
Opponents of the Governor’s statewide mask mandate say Governor Edwards should not have the authority to make decisions like this by himself.
Oil City Representative Danny McCormick is a signee of a Legislative effort to suspend the Governor’s public health emergency declaration. He says Edwards’ order is an attack on liberty.
“Our nation is a republic, the rights belong to the individual they don’t belong to the government and the government should not be making mandates. I trust the people not the government with those rights,” says McCormick.
McCormick says the Governor should not have the authority to make such an important decision unilaterally.
“Right now this Governor is a dictator, he makes 100 percent of the decisions, he does not take any council with the Legislature, which is the voice of the people,” says McCormick.
McCormick says lawmakers have tried to discuss their concerns with the Governor, but he won’t talk with them and doesn’t give them a heads up to lawmakers when decisions are made.
“We don’t have the ability to communicate with the Governor directly, we get to talk to his staff a few minutes a week but besides that we do not get to talk to the Governor,” says McCormick.
McCormick made the comments on Talk Louisiana.
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