Muscatine Mayor Announces Mask Mandate, As Crowd Shouts In Opposition

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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/muscatine-mayor-announces-mask-mandate-crowd-shouts-opposition#stream/0

Broderson again tried to appeal to a sense of collective responsibility to protect public health, as the country is waylaid by the global coronavirus pandemic.

“How can we as a community not do everything that we can to save even one life or one business from closure, if we can?” Broderson asked.

“Muscatine is a city of people who care about each other, and who rise to the occasion when help is needed. I’m sorry if people are inconvenienced by this,” she added, before being drowned out by a chorus of “boos."

Questions persist about the scope of local control during the coronavirus emergency. The state attorney general’s office has told IPR that local governments are not currently authorized to issue such orders, saying they would not be consistent with Gov. Kim Reynolds’ emergency declarations and guidance issued by IDPH.

Still, Iowa Code grants cities and counties “police powers," which include the power to “protect rights, privileges, and property of the city and county and to preserve and improve the peace, safety, welfare, comfort and convenience of their residents," according to a memo from Attorney General Tom Miller’s office.

Is Reynolds still having her press conferences on Tuesday and Thursday? I susoect she will be asked about this if there is.

As for Broderson, she has more guts in her little finger than the whole gutless Republican Party.