CLICK TO HEAR JACK HALL’S INTERVIEW WITH STATE SEN. ED MCBROOM
Upper Peninsula State Senator Ed McBroom is outraged with the governor’s recent health department orders that require you to leave your name and number at a restaurant or bar for contact tracing purposes.
The Dickinson County Republican also strongly objects to the governor’s orders…issued through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services…that limit the number of people you can have visit your home.
“This is so clearly a violation of our rights as citizens,” McBroom told RRN News. “That is just something that is unimaginable a few months ago in America, that we would just accept that. It’s just so obsene to the very ideals of liberty. It’s repulive. It’s revolting that we’ve gotten to this stage.”
McBroom says that some previous restrictions may have been reasonable to help curb the spread of COVID-19. But McBroom says these go way too far, and are not legal.
“I won’t comply,” McBroom said. “I’ve already been to some places. I’m not putting down my real name. No way! And if they say well you have to, then I’ll go someplace else. That’s just absolutely wrong. There is absolutely nothing in these orders that requires you to put down the right name and number. Nothing. There’s no enforcement mechanism, and no penalty.”
McBroom was just getting started.
“I’m not going to do it, because it’s clearly a violation of my civil rights,” McBroom said. “I’m not going to kowtow to anybody who says how many people I can invite to my house. It’s my house! And I have every right to invite over whoever I want in my house for Thanksgiving Dinner! There is nobody telling me that I can’t.”
McBroom says there is no proof that any of the orders will stop the spread of the coronavirus.
“We do need to take personal responsibility in this crisis,” McBroom said. “Not having large gatherings is a wise thing to do. But we have to reject this slide into the benevolant ‘we know what’s better for you’ type of government. Treating us like children, treating us like animals is wrong.”
“I cannot believe that we have come now to this point where the government is asking us to sign up for a government list. And restricting who we can have in our homes. It is such a clear red line that I can’t imagine happening 12 months ago.”
McBroom says that even though Republicans control both the House and Senate, they don’t have enough votes to override a Whitmer veto of anything that they would try to pass into law.
“We have very few tools in the toolbox,” McBroom said. “The only thing we can do is to sue.”
Even that may be more difficult after Tuesday’s elections, which saw two Whitmer-supported justices elected to the Michigan Supreme Court. That will shift the court from a 4-3 conservative majority to a 4-3 liberal majority.
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