Louisiana’s Democratic governor John Bel Edwards was
spotted dining at a country club without a mask, despite his
own coronavirus health restrictions requiring people to wear masks
in public.�
Edwards addressed the recently surfaced photograph, which shows
him and others dining at the Baton Rouge Country Club in
mid-November, at a press conference on Wednesday. Despite his phase
three lockdown orders, which mandate that people wear masks
whenever they are within six feet of another person, Edwards
claimed he did nothing wrong.
Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards (D.) dined maskless at a
Baton Rouge Country Club in November | WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge
“There was absolutely nothing I did that day that violated the
rules that were in place in phase three,” Edwards said.
The photo shows Edwards standing near other country club members
without a mask, leaning through a doorway to reenter the
building.
In an op-ed
in the Advocate published just days before Thanksgiving,
Edwards told Louisianians to “always wear your mask if you are
around people not part of your immediate household.”
Edwards is the latest in a slew of Democratic elected officials
who have violated their own coronavirus health restrictions.
San Francisco mayor London Breed and California governor Gavin
Newsom
attended mid-pandemic dinner parties—without masks—at a
fancy restaurant in Napa County.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot had
their hair done at salons, despite mandates closing salons.
San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo spent Thanksgiving with family
members despite
urging his constituents not to gather to celebrate the
holiday.
And a Los Angeles County supervisor
dined outdoors at a Santa Monica restaurant in November just
hours after she voted to ban outdoor dining.
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