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Bars, nightclubs, and live entertainment venues are going to have to sit tight a little longer before being given the green light to reopen.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp at a press conference Tuesday announced he is extending the reopening timeline for those “non-essential” businesses from May 15 to May 31.
Bars, nightclubs, and live entertainment venues are the last to reopen.
“I know that this extension is difficult for many Georgia business owners and communities that have music venues,” Kemp said.
“However, we believe that waiting a little bit longer will enhance health outcomes and give folks the opportunity to prepare for safe reopening in the near future.”
Restaurants were able to start reopening dining rooms on Monday, April 27 so as long as owners followed 39 state-issued guidelines.
Separate guidance was issued for those businesses.
A statewide shelter-in-place order expired at the end of April with the exception of Georgia’s “medically fragile” citizens which was extended through June 12.
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I thought KLB said Phase One was voluntary.
This guy is just a testosterne-poisioned control freak.
He didn’t sue any other cities in GA that had similar guidelines.
And from my understanding he didn’t sue the COA, he sued KLB, and the City Council.
What a d!ck…
It seems he might have a problem with (Black) women in charge…
Oh hush that’s bogus and assumptive to say the least. This has nothing to do with being a woman of color nor if he has a problem with the later. KLB ( as you all call her) was going to literally break the small business! Which would have put thousands out of work creating a ripple affect from there. So hush! You can’t go backwards to phase 1 and force mask wearing in public ( which doesn’t stop or curve a “virus”). There is something else going on here and the Governor is standing up against it for ALL small business owners of ALL colors again stop trying to play the race card this would have messed everyone up that owns a small business .
Oh please, you told me to hush the last time I mentioned this.
Read the article, the reopening rollback was voluntary. KLB was not shutting small businesses down.
She was trying to make masks mandatory in public spaces (grocery stores etc). What’s the big deal with that?
Kemp didn’t sue the Mayors of Athens and Savannah, which made similar requirements.
Race aside, Kemp is the shake boy for Pence/Trump. And we know how those two think about women. One likes to grab them by the puzzy, and the other calls his wife Mother.
Kemp’s lawsuit was a power play– it’s not about the concern for anybody’s health or small business.
Granted, Kemp wants to keep the Georgia financial engine running, but I think the Mayor and the rest of us want to do that as well– safely.
Kemp’s a big southern macho man wannabe who doesn’t like a woman that appears to override his authority (remember his campaign ads with his guns and pick-em up truck?).
KLB has the balls Kemp wishes he had.
Dingus-ery