GOP Arkansas gov. regrets signing law banning mask mandates

[peppertree]

Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday he regrets signing a law in April banning local mask mandates, as COVID-19 cases quickly rise in his state.

"Well, I signed it at the time because our cases were at a very low point. I knew that it would be overridden by the legislature if I didn't sign it," Hutchison explained in a news conference.

"And I was not supportive of - I had already eliminated our statewide mask mandate."

Hutchison's remarks come as new Covid-19 cases in the state - now mostly of Delta variant - have soared from around 200 daily in March through June, to 2,343 yesterday.

"Everything has changed now. And yes, in hindsight, I wish that had not become law, but it is the law," the governor noted.

At: https://news.yahoo.com/video/gop-arkansas-gov-regrets-signing-133313555.html

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson with a chart displaying COVID-19 hospitalization data at a news conference in Little Rock yesterday.

The Republican governor said Tuesday he now regrets signing a law in April banning local mask mandates.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Regrets won't bring back those that died as a result of your failed policy/failed law.

Should be thrown out of office (via a recall), and then charged w/ involuntary manslaughter.

[peppertree]

2. +1

Sounds more like crocodile tears to me.

And Hutchinson is known to have his eye on the Oval Office.

[RockRaven]

3. He regrets the increasing likelihood of being held accountable for killing so many kids.

He was fine with killing kids/adults with that Repuke right wing "own the libs" performance art which destroyed evidence-based expert-informed public health policy, as long as it wasn't so many dead that survivors would actually, correctly, blame him for his part in it.

Now those sown air currents are swirling into a whirlwind and he's got crocodile tears about the impending reaping. I'm not buying what he's selling today.

[rickyhall]

4. His problem is our Tea Party Legislature who live in alternate reality.