Atlanta Mayor Lance Bottoms questions Georgia Gov. Kemp's 'bizarre' lawsuit over mask mandate.
Bottoms noted that Savannah implemented a mask order on July 1 and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s hometown of Athens instituted one on July 8.
“Then when Atlanta instituted a mask order — and I did it via executive order — he filed a lawsuit,” she said. “I don't think it happenstance that this lawsuit came the day after Donald Trump visited Atlanta and I pointed out that he was violating city law by not having on a mask at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.”
Bottoms said that in addition to the lawsuit, Kemp also “takes exception with some advisory business reopening recommendations that were made by the city” and is “suing us personally — myself and the city council — because of the advisory recommendations.” “I think that he is putting politics over people,” she said of the governor, who she said didn’t know until well into the pandemic that coronavirus could be spread through asymptomatic carriers.
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