The ongoing feud between state and local officials in Florida over vaccine mandates escalated on Tuesday when one county was hit with a whopping $3.57 million fine for requiring COVID jabs for all employees.
The hefty fine is the first under the Florida law against mandates that was passed in May. In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday barring any entity from enforcing a vaccine mandate on its employees and encouraged other state leaders to do the same.
Long he was in violation of the law after the county fired several employees for refusing to comply with the mandate.called it “an overreach of state government,” while Sen. Loranne Ausley blasted DeSantis for “spending his time punishing counties working to keep their citizens safe.” “There is a genuine disagreement about the applicability of the statute and rule, and the County will enforce its rights using any remedies available at law, if necessary,” Long said.“It's all just political posturing,” Christopher Link, a Tallahassee resident, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. “ It makes no sense and only hurts the taxpayer. The fact that the better good for the health of the state is so wrongly politicized is insane. The crazies have taken over, really.
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