‘Freedom Is Worth Losing Friends Over’: Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Fires Back After Best Man Slams Him For Saying COVID Vaccine Mandates Are Evil
A leading GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, blasted for calling COVID mandates “evil” by the man who had been the best man at his wedding, fired back that he wished his best man well, but retorted, “Freedom is worth losing friends over.”
Blake Masters, the Chief Operating Officer of Thiel Capital and president of The Thiel Foundation, is running for the Arizona Senate seat. Masters is challenging incumbent Democrat senator Mark Kelly in 2022 for one of the seats that could determine whether the GOP can regain control of the United States Senate. He told The Associated Press in July, “I fear that we are losing the country. I want my kids to grow up in an America that works like the one I grew up in. I want them to grow up in a country that I still recognize.”
On Thursday night, following the Biden administration’s announcement setting Jan. 4 as the deadline for companies with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID vaccinations or start weekly testing of their workers, he tweeted, “covid vaccine mandates are evil.”
covid vaccine mandates are evil
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 4, 2021
That prompted Collin Wedel, whom Masters stated had been the best man at Masters’ wedding, to snap on Twitter, “Shame on you. I’m so utterly disappointed in what you’ve done with yourself. People will get sick, and die, from your reckless rhetoric. As someone who loves and use to respect you: What happened to you?”
Masters fired back, “Collin was a best friend growing up. He told me about the famous class where I met Peter Thiel, and he was best man at my wedding. The most deadly virus we face is progressivism, it rots both brains and nations. I wish Collin well — but freedom is worth losing friends over.”
Collin was a best friend growing up. He told me about the famous class where I met Peter Thiel, and he was best man at my wedding.
The most deadly virus we face is progressivism, it rots both brains and nations. I wish Collin well — but freedom is worth losing friends over. pic.twitter.com/7AizQ8HDKy
— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) November 5, 2021
In early October, the Pima County Democratic Party in Arizona attacked Masters, saying “There is no border crisis” after Masters had pointed out the porous nature of the border wall by showing where it simply stopped, allowing drug cartels to monitor the border and instruct
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