To which Speaker Sherm Packard was taken to task and had to apologize to the entire House membership that he called Anne a b**ch on his hot mic. Here’s the incident:
So I got a call from Anne a bit earlier today to give GraniteGrok the exclusive story as to what happened and keep in mind that all of this happened before the Session had actually started.
What precipitated this whole thing was an innocent walk from the “Freedom” section of the area in which the House members had assembled. A petition had been circulating in that area in support of HB544 that would stop the divisive philosophy of Critical Race Theory (of which we have been sounding the alarm where you are considered to be RAACIST simply by the color of your skin) from being taught in Government institutions (State Government, Government schools, etc). She was the one that was taking it from that Freedom section (where masks were not being worn) to the “regular” section (WITH a mask on) to pass the petition on to someone else to continue the “pass around”.
Sidenote: last count, over 100 members have signed the petition.
She was on her way back to the Freedom section and was near NO ONE. Certainly she was beyond six feet from anyone (that CDC recommendation). So, the mask came off and she continued walking back to her seat. That’s when Paul Smith (the masked person on the left, above) started to call out her name and remind her to mask back up.
That’s when she did a pirouette to demonstrate that no one was in danger of catching the virus that has a 99.8% recovery rate. And yes, I’ll admit that the House members are primarily Geezer aged so that percentage drops) but then we’re back to that Mask Mystery again – does it protect ME or You, and if the CDC six foot rule is more than WuFlu Kabuki theater, no one was in danger, right?
But I guess that the pirouette showed that Packard has no sense of humor and that Leadership has a dim view of their Republican member – and he called her a b**th. S’alright, I’ve had a dim view of him for a long time, for what it’s worth.
So, which one has egg on their face? If Anne was long ways for others and simply walking towards others that also were deciding that THEY are the adults to measure their own risks, Packard deserved to be shamed into having to apologize given that he failed to realize the context that was happening in real time and let his political senselessness hold sway.
