Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): I'm OK with not forcing restaurant workers to wash up

[Newsjock]

Source: District Sentinel

... Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Monday that he’s okay with the idea of service industry workers returning to work without washing their hands after touching their unmentionables, as long as customers are made aware of the situation.

Tillis made the declaration at to the Bipartisan Policy Center, at the end of a question and answer with the audience. He was relaying a 2010 anecdote about his “bias when it comes to regulatory reform.”

“I was having a discussion with someone, and we were at a Starbucks in my district, and we were talking about certain regulations where I felt like ‘maybe you should allow businesses to opt out,’” he said, “as long as they indicate through proper disclosure, through advertising, through employment literature, or whatever else.”

Tillis was, at the time, the minority whip of the North Carolina House of Representatives.

Read more: https://www.districtsentinel.com/freshman-gop-senator-im-okay-not-forcing-restaurant-workers-wash/

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This is video from C-SPAN. Tillis' remarks begin at about 41:45.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?324120-1/conversation-senator-thom-tillis-rnc

[Coventina]

1. OK, Thom, you first!!

Did I wake up a few centuries early today?

[MohRokTah]

2. The United States has become insane where medical issues are concerned. eom

[edhopper]

4. Let me fix that for you

The Republican Party has become insane where medical issues are concerned.

[MohRokTah]

8. There are plenty of people on the left with this form of insanity.

Look at the anti-vaxxers right here on DU.

[edhopper]

10. point taken

Probably because I stay away from the conspiracy forum.

[bullwinkle428]

15. The right wing has dropped any pretense of subtlety when it comes to

their desire to bring back the Middle Ages.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. That's a perfectly 'free market' solution.

Because those companies would quickly go out of business as they made massive numbers of their customers ill.

But what a waste of the money and time spent by people building those businesses, to have it simply destroyed because some ignorant person takes over and decides to make sanitary measure 'optional'. Wouldn't it be more 'business-friendly' to keep regulations that keep them in business?

[riderinthestorm]

9. Customers getting ill? How about no customers at all! I wouldn't go there

If that was a food service company's policy I would never patronize that place and would make sure everyone I knew also understood they had such a disgusting policy.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

12. Sure, intelligent people wouldn't.

But the 'Freedumb!' people still would. Heck, they'd eat there MORE often, just to 'show up' us 'elite' liberal types who actually believe hygiene is a useful thing.

[edhopper]

5. What's amazing

is these people are elected over and over and are the majority Party in these States.

[lunasun]

6. Freedunb

Hallelujah

Imagine all the other opt outs he has in mind
Somebody serve him some Santorum

[Terra Alta]

7. And this idiot is my Senator

Looks like he is going to be a huge embarrassment to NC for the next six years.

[vankuria]

11. Hard to believe we're even having this conversation

Tillis mentions this is ok as long as the business indicates through "proper disclosure". So restaurants can advertise food handlers have the option whether or not they want to wash their hands after using the toilet? This is beyond stupid and talk about a death wish for a restaurant!

I don't know of any restaurant employees that would have a problem with handwashing after using the bathroom, unless of course it's someone who is nasty and probably shouldn't be working with food to begin with.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

13. He probably also believes that 'proper disclosure' means putting up a sign in the bathroom.

Saying that handwashing is optional. So you'd have to check the restrooms of any place you wanted to eat first, before placing an order.

[Terra Alta]

14. I live in NC and go out to eat quite a bit

Every restaurant I have been to has signs in the restroom stating employees must wash their hands with soap and water after each visit to the bathroom. Guess Tillis would want those signs replaced with ones that say "hand-washing by employees is optional". I guarantee you he wouldn't step foot in a restaurant that made hand washing optional for their employees.