{"id":129498,"date":"2021-02-14T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=129498"},"modified":"2021-02-14T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T15:20:14","slug":"newly-elected-governor-lifts-predecessors-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-elected-governor-lifts-predecessors-mask-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-Elected Governor Lifts Predecessor\u2019s Mask Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fnewly-elected-governor-lifts-predecessors-mask-mandate%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=129498&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--><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Montana Governor Greg Gianforte kept his promise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He lifted his predecessor\u2019s mask mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/538638-montana-governor-lifts-state-mask-mandate\">From The Hill:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Montana Gov.\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Greg Gianforte<\/span>\u00a0(R) lifted the state\u2019s mask mandate Friday, fulfilling a campaign pledge, after he said the state has made significant progress vaccinating the most vulnerable against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-extras trending\"><strong>TRENDING:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/02\/breaking-senate-votes-57-43-acquit-donald-trump-seven-republicans-voted-convict\/\" data-type=\"Internal link\" data-type-location=\"in-content-trending\">BREAKING: Senate Votes 57-43 to ACQUIT Donald Trump &#8211; Here Are the SEVEN Republicans Who Voted to Convict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gianforte has been a vocal opponent to the mask mandate, which was signed into law by his predecessor, Democratic Gov.\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Steve Bullock<\/span>, in July.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u00a0made the announcement Wednesday, during a signing ceremony for legislation that would shield businesses, health care providers, houses of worship and nonprofit organizations from coronavirus-related lawsuits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Gianforte is not the only Republican governor who is standing up for freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On February 5th, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, also lifted her state\u2019s mask mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/health\/iowa-covid-restrictions-lifted-mask-mandate-gatherings-gov-kim-reynolds-20210205\">From The Gazette:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iowans will no longer be required to wear face coverings in public when around other people for at least 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses will not be required to limit the number of customers or keep them socially distanced.<\/p>\n<p>No limits will be placed on the number of people who can gather in public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes as the public health \u201cexperts\u201d are beginning their push for \u201cdouble masking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZN1RgjmjAj\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/02\/go-cdc-study-finds-two-masks-better-one-just-one-week-fauci-backtracks-wearing-multiple-face-masks\/\">Here We Go: CDC Study Finds Two Masks Are Better Than One \u2013 Just One Week After Fauci Backtracks on Wearing Multiple Face Masks<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Governor Greg Gianforte kept his promise. He lifted his predecessor\u2019s mask mandate. From The Hill: Montana Gov.\u00a0Greg Gianforte\u00a0(R) lifted the state\u2019s mask mandate Friday, fulfilling a campaign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4173,5661,5527,4575,6685,6686],"class_list":["post-129498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-governor","tag-lifts","tag-mandate","tag-mask","tag-newly-elected","tag-predecessors"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129498","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=129498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}