LA County sheriff says he won’t enforce vaccine mandate for officers: ‘I’m not forcing anyone’ – IOTW Report

LA County sheriff says he won’t enforce vaccine mandate for officers: ‘I’m not forcing anyone’

PM: Back on Thursday, Sheriff Alex Villanueva took to Facebook Live to formally announce his intentions to not enforce the Los Angeles County vaccine mandate for his agency.  According to the Associated Press, the executive order posted back in August gave LA County employees until Oct. 1st to get the COVID-19 jab. Despite religious and medical exemptions, Villanueva said some reluctant troopers are willing to be fired or laid off instead of vaccinated.

(The full text of the Aug. 4, 2021 executive order can be found here.)

“I don’t want to be in a position to lose 5, 10% of my workforce overnight on a vaccine mandate,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva is quoted saying. This is weighed against what he describes as a “barebones funding effort” for his department.

“I’m not forcing anyone,” Villanueva said during the Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday. “The issue has become so politicized, there are entire groups of employees who are willing to be fired and laid off rather than get vaccinated…” more here

6 Comments on LA County sheriff says he won’t enforce vaccine mandate for officers: ‘I’m not forcing anyone’

  1. The message of Lets go Brandon is spreading like a prairie wildfire all across the country. Todays Federalist Papers top headline is, Local resident welcomes Biden to Michigan with brutal backyard message POTUS can read from Marine One. In great big white letters a Michigan resident wrote eff Joe Biden in to his grass where Marine One flew directly overhead where joey could see it. Keep it up America and maybe just maybe the fake presidunce will finally realize just how unpopular that he is. And then there’s all the college football game and baseball playoffs this weekend where this will be a familiar chant. Nixon had nothing nothing on joey for being told to go get fucked.

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  2. He should have also said he won’t enforce any unconstitutional mandate per his sworn oath to the Constitution. The firing of the staff is just the result of enforcing an unconstitutional mandate.

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