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RandySF

(58,774 posts) Mon May 11, 2020, 11:27 AM May 2020

An internal memorandum from Mandeville-based GOP political operative Jay Connaughton, addressed to Republican state Sen. Sharon Hewitt of Slidell, and privately circulated among GOP state legislators outlines a series of talking points to use in a coordinated campaign aimed at politicizing and undermining the emergency orders issued by Gov. John Bel Edwards in curtailing the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.bayoubrief.com/2020/04/28/exclusive-internal-memo-circulated-by-la-gops-sharon-hewitt-outlines-effort-to-undermine-emergency-covid-19-orders/

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Internal Memo Circulated by LA GOP Outlines Effort to Undermine Emergency Covid-19 Orders (Original Post) RandySF May 2020 OP

Here's the memo, in case you don't want to click: MineralMan May 2020 #4

(18,160 posts)

1. idiots . you have rights, but your actions will be telling when the second wave hits .

Mon May 11, 2020, 11:41 AM

May 2020

(22,356 posts)

2. They know their political ratfucking will results in deaths and crippling disability

Mon May 11, 2020, 11:49 AM

May 2020

They don't care

(33,328 posts)

3. The Gruesome Old Perverts party is willing to sacrifice you to gain a little power.

Mon May 11, 2020, 01:05 PM

May 2020

(146,287 posts)

4. Here's the memo, in case you don't want to click:

Mon May 11, 2020, 01:08 PM

May 2020