Sen. Bill White, R-Joplin is one of the 16 Republican senators who are demanding that Gov. Mike Parson call the state legislature back in session to combat President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates.
The text of their letter is printed below:
Dear Governor Parson,
Yesterday, the President of the United States announced his plan to force-vaccinate a large part
of the American workforce with intimidation and using the power of the federal government.
Private employers with 100 or more employees will be mandated to vaccinate workers or face
fines up to $14,000 per infraction.
If that wasn’t enough, the President is also force-vaccinating
federal employees and using tax dollars against the American people by coercing any health care
providers who take Medicare and Medicaid patients to force-vaccinate their employees.
The President has crossed a line.
This isn’t leadership. It’s coercion. It’s the federal government invading the personal lives of
Americans on an unprecedented scale. It’s an attack on the Constitution and our right to
determine our own fate and control our own lives.
Nowhere in the Constitution is the President
given the authority to unilaterally force private business and private citizens to be vaccinated. No
law was passed by Congress and it was not reviewed or approved by the elected representatives
of the people. This plan was hatched in the Oval Office to take attention away from the
President’s string of recent failures.
The sad reality is this plan from the President isn’t about
public health or protecting Americans. It’s about politics and it’s wrong.
This isn’t government of the People, by the People, and for the People. This is the Imperial
Presidency wielding authoritarianism to stamp out the individual freedoms we hold dear. This
isn’t the America the Founders created over two centuries ago. It’s not even the America of nine
months ago. This is Biden’s America where your unvaccinated neighbor is your enemy and the
federal government is all-knowing and all-powerful.
The people of Missouri are looking to us to lead, now more than ever. This is where we put our
foot down and say to the federal government, “thus far and no farther.”
If we don’t act, hundreds
of thousands of Missourians could be affected. Many will lose their jobs but, more importantly,
if this stands all of us will lose our rights as Americans and a dangerous precedent will be set.
The decision to be vaccinated or not is each individual person’s to make. It’s not the
government’s decision and it’s not the President’s.
This is the time to fight back against “federal power grabs and government overreach that
threatens to limit our freedoms.”
Next week, in concurrence with the constitutionally-established
Veto Session, I respectfully request you call an extraordinary session for the purpose of
addressing this infringement of our state sovereignty and to take all appropriate steps to protect
the rights and liberties of Missourians from the unconstitutional actions of the Biden
Administration and the federal government.
Thank you for your consideration of this matter and for your service to the people of Missouri.
The senators who signed the letter were the following:
Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville
Jason Bean, R-Holcomb
Mike Bernskoetter, R-Jefferson City
Eric Burlison, R-Battlefield
Bill Eigel, R-Weldon Spring
Karla Eslinger, R-Wasola
Elaine Gannon, R-De Soto
Denny Hoskins, R-Warrensburg
Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester
Tony Luetkemeyer, R-Parkville
Mike Moon, R-Ash Grove
Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina
Bob Onder, R-Lake St. Louis
Holly Rehder, R-Sikeston
Jeanie Riddle R-Fulton
Bill White, R-Joplin
Thank you Senator White, and all those who signed the letter.
ReplyDeleteYes, thank you for continuing to spread ignorance and fear.
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