Editorial: Keep covid politics out of city's plea for police
A Mill Creek City Council member’s pitch last week for law enforcement officers to apply for that city’s police department vacancies was more of a political statement than a help-wanted ad, a post that is likely tied to the council member’s plans to seek higher office next year.
As reported Monday by The Herald’s Rachel Riley, city council member Vincent Cavaleri starts a Oct. 18 Facebook post with condemnation of Gov. Jay Inslee’s mandate that state employees, including troopers and others with the Washington State Patrol, be fully vaccinated by that date in order to keep their jobs, referring to it as Inslee’s “execution day.”
“I could tell you what a despicable man this governor is,” Cavaleri continues, “but you already know that. I am here to offer a solution for anyone of my brothers and sisters that wear her (sic) uniform and want to come work for my city.”
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For Cavaleri, who has announced a run for Congress and Washington state’s 1st District seat, it’s not his first such statement. Earlier in September, the six-year council veteran, pitched a resolution in opposition to “vaccine passports” — which no one on the council or in the administration had proposed — as “an intrusion of individual privacy and freedom.” In proposing the resolution, which failed before the rest of the council, Cavaleri drew parallels between vaccine passports, apartheid and Nazi Germany, a comparison that has earned condemnation for similar comments by U.S. political officials elsewhere.
The comparison, more than being inaccurate, is vile.
Deborah Lipstadt, a professor at Emory University and a Holocaust historian, told the Jewish publication, Forward, such comparisons were “disgusting.”
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