Republican Demands 'Documentation' On School Mask Mandates. OOPS
This is what happens when a legislator gets too deep into the right-wing ecosystem.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been science-based on Covid from the beginning. There is currently an indoor mask mandate throughout Illinois and that includes schools.
Republican Tony McCombie filed a FOIA request for "feedback" on Illinois' school mask mandate.
I'm betting her own Facebook page was so full of vitriol for anything the Democratic governor does, she thought it was a perfect "gotcha" moment to use the Freedom of Information Act to PROVE parents hate masks in school.
Governor JB Pritzker responded with 870 thank you notes from relieved parents.
A CBS local affiliate published some excerpts:
...some of the parents who wrote Pritzker letters expressed concerns that local school boards were caving to the demands of a loud, vocal minority instead of reinforcing the recommendations of medical experts and scientists...