This is an opinion cartoon.
Republican governors are bullish on COVID, bearish on Biden vax mandates.
Interesting how southern GOP governors score political points by throwing COVID safety protocols to the wind and their own people into the fire. The more men, women and children who get sick and die in Florida and Texas, the better their respective governors will do in the next election, apparently.
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“My plan also takes on elected officials and states that are undermining you and these life-saving actions,” Biden said during a press conference. “If these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I will use my power as president to get them out of the way.”
Bring it on: Gov. Ivey to president Joe Biden
Even our own flabbergasted Kay Ivey, who famously stated “it’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks,” is now standing ‘strong as a bull’ against President Biden’s vaccine mandates.
I think back on this quote from my colleague Ben Flanagan’s Outbreak Alabama podcast: “You can’t be anti-vax and pro-business.”
Whitmire: Vaccine mandates too much? You know we still have a Selective Service, right?
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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