{"id":1269483,"date":"2022-02-03T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269483"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T02:54:19","slug":"exclusive-gov-noem-slams-democrat-opponents-support-for-some-vaccine-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-gov-noem-slams-democrat-opponents-support-for-some-vaccine-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Gov. Noem Slams Democrat Opponent&#039;s Support for Some Vaccine Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-gov-noem-slams-democrat-opponents-support-for-some-vaccine-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1269483&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/june-22-2020-Kristi-Noem-South-Dakota-AP-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Thursday slammed her gubernatorial Democrat opponent\u2019s support for some vaccine mandates and mask-wearing rules, telling Breitbart News that Rep. Jamie Smith (D) has consistently dismissed personal responsibility and rights of individuals to make health care choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamie has long supported mandating things down to people that should be their personal responsibility to make choices on,\u201d Noem said of Smith\u2019s bureaucratic approach to government. \u201cHe\u2019s got a very different view of government than I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s marched to BLM [Black Lives Matter], he supports more taxes, more spending,\u201d she continued. \u201cI would say we are very, very far apart when it comes to policies and approach in the role of government should have in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was the scene in committee last week. Not a mask in sight. We are here to do the work of the people, for the people, and we must remain healthy to continue that work. I am asking South Dakotans to respect their neighbors and please wear a mask! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IUqQv5RbNz\">pic.twitter.com\/IUqQv5RbNz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Smith for SD Governor (@RepJamieSmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJamieSmith\/status\/1359303848557502465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noem\u2019s comments come as Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/02\/03\/exclusive-south-dakota-democrat-governor-candidate-backs-mandating-vaccine-for-some-workers\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News he favors vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and masking rules&nbsp;\u201cwhen appropriate\u201d in accordance with President Biden\u2019s so-called health experts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere are people in certain professions \u2013 that I believe in the health systems \u2013 have asked me to support mandates in health systems, for example. They\u2019ve reached out to me and said, \u2018Please, because of what we do, we need to make sure all of our people are vaccinated,\u2019\u201d&nbsp;Smith said, describing why he supports jab mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way we can be the safest is to be vaccinated, boosted, and wear a mask when appropriate,\u201d Smith continued before abdicating public policy decisions with complicated social and economic tradeoffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will follow the guidance at the time when I\u2019m governor,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll follow what health professionals say is the best thing for us to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News questioned Smith if he thought leadership was abdicating complicated policy decisions to one select group of experts. Smith responded by praising Noem\u2019s leadership on vaccine policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of late, the governor has come out with a commercial to the people talking a bit about vaccination and boosters and I appreciate that,\u201d the Democrat stated about Noem\u2019s public health announcement. \u201cI think it should have been done months ago, perhaps a year ago. But I do appreciate this commercial.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Smith\u2019s thoughts on medical freedom are seemingly in line with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has allegedly twice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/repeated-claim-that-fauci-lied-congress-about-gain-of-function-research\/\">perjured<\/a> himself in congressional hearings and vigorously <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/07\/anthony-fauci-cnn-state-of-the-union-jake-tapper-wuhan-lab-research-funding-1234799663\/\">defended<\/a> himself against accusations that he funded the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology\u2019s gain-of-function research.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci has advocated for vaccine mandates, even for those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/27\/fauci-says-us-should-consider-vaccine-mandate-for-domestic-air-travel.html\">traveling<\/a> by airplane and children <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/29\/politics\/fauci-school-vaccine-mandates-cnntv\/index.html\">attending<\/a> school. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/12\/podcasts\/the-daily\/anthony-fauci-vaccine-mandates-booster-shots.html\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately, all pandemics burn themselves out.&nbsp;So you have a choice. Do you want it to burn itself out and kill a lot more people and make a lot more people sick? Or do you want to do something about it to prevent further deaths and further illness?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Biden\u2019s health expert has also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/567930-fauci-asks-people-to-put-aside-concerns-of-personal-liberty-and\">poo-pooed<\/a> an individual\u2019s freedom and personal responsibility to make individual health choices for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties and realize we have a common enemy and that common enemy is the virus,\u201d Fauci said about mandating vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Dakota only has 344 individuals<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/doh.sd.gov\/COVID\/Dashboard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">&nbsp;hospitalized<\/a>&nbsp;with coronavirus, according to the state\u2019s health website as of Thursday. South Dakota <a href=\"https:\/\/www.populationu.com\/us\/south-dakota-population\">boasts<\/a> over 895,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>Noem enjoys majority&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aberdeennews.com\/story\/news\/2021\/12\/10\/new-poll-shows-south-dakotans-approve-gov-kristi-noems-work\/6453088001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">support<\/a>&nbsp;in the state with 53 percent of respondents approving of her performance, an October poll revealed. Just 40.9 percent&nbsp;<span class=\"a\">strongly or somewhat disapproved of her performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Gettr<\/a>&nbsp;@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Thursday slammed her gubernatorial Democrat opponent\u2019s support for some vaccine mandates and mask-wearing rules, telling Breitbart News that Rep. Jamie Smith (D) has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}