When asked by his colleagues if he would comply with a new rule requiring all state House members to wear a mask, Rep. Darren Bailey said, 'I will not.'
A Republican member of Illinois' state legislature was kicked out of a special session of the House on Wednesday for refusing to wear a mask.
Fellow House Rep. Emanuel Welch, a Democrat, proposed a motion to remove Bailey until he agreed to comply with the mask rule. Though legislators with both parties voiced support for Welch's motion, one Republican member of the House, Rep. Dan Caulkins, spoke against it before the vote was called. "For some, this is symbolic," Rep. Mark Batinick, a Republican, said while gesturing to his own mask."I understand the symbolism of it, but I think there's more important things that we could be doing with our time right now."
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