{"id":544623,"date":"2021-05-28T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544623"},"modified":"2021-05-28T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:50:20","slug":"janice-mcgeachin-i-tried-to-protect-personal-freedoms-with-executive-order-on-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/janice-mcgeachin-i-tried-to-protect-personal-freedoms-with-executive-order-on-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Janice McGeachin: I Tried to Protect Personal Freedoms with Executive Order on Masks"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fjanice-mcgeachin-i-tried-to-protect-personal-freedoms-with-executive-order-on-masks%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=544623&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\/2021\/05\/GetFile-533.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Idaho GOP Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/live\">Newsmax<\/a> on Friday that she was attempting to protect &#8221;individual liberties and rights&#8221; when she issued an executive order banning local governments from issuing mask mandates while briefly acting as governor.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, GOP Gov. Brad Little rescinded the order, which McGeachin issued on Thursday while serving as acting governor while Little was outside the state to speak at the Republican Governors Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahopress.com\/eyeonboise\/governor-rescinds-mcgeachins-executive-order-calls-it-irresponsible-abuse-of-power-link-to-my-full\/article_61da2b82-9e04-5c4e-a0f9-e7725d3cbe59.html\">saying<\/a> that it was &#8221;an irresponsible, self-serving political stunt&#8221; and an &#8221;abuse of power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGeachin told &#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/Shows\/American-Agenda\">American Agenda<\/a>&#8221; that&nbsp;&#8221;what happened was that over the course of this past&nbsp;year, thousands of thousands of&nbsp;Idahoans have been&nbsp;struggling with some of the&nbsp;orders that the governor has&nbsp;imposed on us as free&nbsp;citizens in the state. And as&nbsp;our state has recovered, and&nbsp;we, like, like all states&nbsp;across the nation, are recovering from the virus, that&nbsp;there&#8217;s a herd immunity is&nbsp;being developed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vaccine is&nbsp;readily available in Idaho. You want a vaccine? You&nbsp;can get it. But there are&nbsp;still some restrictions that&nbsp;were placed on cities, counties,&nbsp;and especially the school&nbsp;district, which is very&nbsp;problematic to me, especially&nbsp;when I see that the governor&nbsp;goes around to public political&nbsp;events and does not wear masks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8221;But yet at the same time&nbsp;our kids at school are being&nbsp;mandated to wear masks. So,&nbsp;last week when I was on the&nbsp;steps of the Capitol, making my&nbsp;announcement that I was going&nbsp;to run for governor, a small&nbsp;child came up to me and looked&nbsp;up at me and said, &#8216;If you were&nbsp;the governor, then would you&nbsp;force me to wear masks to&nbsp;school?&#8217; And I looked at the&nbsp;child, I said, &#8216;No, I would not.&#8217;&nbsp;And that really tugged at my&nbsp;heartstrings as a mother and as&nbsp;a person who&#8217;s committed to&nbsp;protecting our individual&nbsp;liberties and rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGeachin added, &#8221;I decided when I learned that&nbsp;the governor was going to be&nbsp;out of town that I would&nbsp;prevent this from occurring on&nbsp;the local level, and that&#8217;s&nbsp;what my action did yesterday&nbsp;was prevent the localities,&nbsp;including our school district,&nbsp;from placing that mandate on&nbsp;people. Because I do not believe&nbsp;at any local government or any&nbsp;level of government should&nbsp;force individuals to make&nbsp;decisions on their own&nbsp;individual healthcare. So,&nbsp;that&#8217;s what my action did was&nbsp;prevented the mask mandate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;See&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/\"><span>Newsmax TV<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;now carried in more than 100 million U.S. homes, on&nbsp;<strong>DirecTV<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 349,&nbsp;<strong>Dish Network&nbsp;<\/strong>Ch. 216,&nbsp;<strong>Xfinity<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 1115,&nbsp;<strong>Spectrum, U-verse<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 1220,&nbsp;<strong>FiOS<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 615,&nbsp;<strong>Frontier<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 115,&nbsp;<strong>Optimum<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 102,&nbsp;<strong>Cox cable, Suddenlink<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 102,&nbsp;<strong>Mediacom<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 277,&nbsp;<strong>AT&amp;T TV<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch 349,&nbsp; <strong>FUBO<\/strong> and major OTT platforms like&nbsp;<strong>Roku<\/strong>, YouTube, Xumo, Pluto and most smart TV&#8217;s including&nbsp;<strong>Samsung+<\/strong>, Sony, LG, Vizio and more \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Find All Systems that Carry Newsmax \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/findus\"><span>Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho GOP Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin told Newsmax on Friday that she was attempting to protect &#8221;individual liberties and rights&#8221; when she issued an executive order banning local governments from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313440,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-533.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Janice McGeachin: I Tried to Protect Personal Freedoms with Executive Order on Masks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GetFile-533.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Janice McGeachin: I Tried to Protect Personal Freedoms with Executive Order on Masks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544623","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=544623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}