{"id":989799,"date":"2021-11-09T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=989799"},"modified":"2021-11-09T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:14:48","slug":"alert-ny-democrats-teachers-union-boss-partied-maskless-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alert-ny-democrats-teachers-union-boss-partied-maskless-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: NY Democrats, Teachers\u2019 Union Boss Partied Maskless in Puerto Rico"},"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%2Falert-ny-democrats-teachers-union-boss-partied-maskless-in-puerto-rico%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=989799&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>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.) last week joined teachers&#8217; union boss Randi Weingarten and a squad of New York Democrats on a taxpayer-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/politics\/2021\/11\/5\/22766301\/de-blasio-hochul-bill-taxpayers-puerto-rico-somos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">getaway<\/a> to Puerto Rico. True to form, the Democrats violated the island&#8217;s strict indoor mask mandate by dancing and mingling like teenagers as if hundreds of Americans aren&#8217;t dying from COVID-19 on President Joe Biden&#8217;s watch. (Fact check: <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-covid-death-atrocity\/\">They are<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Like all New York public schools, Puerto Rico still requires the use of masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status. That didn&#8217;t stop the Democrats from ignoring science and putting lives at risk with their reckless behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats were on the island for the the five-day SOMOS conference, where New York lawmakers and Latino activists gather to lobby each other and have fun. Perhaps ironically, this year&#8217;s conference theme was &#8220;The Recovery.&#8221; The conference website includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/events.bizzabo.com\/somospr2021\/page\/1892766\/covid-19-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reminder<\/a> that Puerto Rico requires masks &#8220;in all indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination status,&#8221; as well as for unvaccinated individuals &#8220;between the ages of 2 and 11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumer was spotted dancing the meringue very awkwardly in a crowd of unmasked revelers. Photos from the conference show that practically all attendees\u2014apart from journalists and event staff\u2014were not wearing masks. The majority leader was joined by outgoing New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deedoherty2\/status\/1458103329658114054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> that children should wear masks in schools and in public until the &#8220;Covid era&#8221; is over.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1536999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bdb.png\" alt width=\"736\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bdb.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bdb-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New York governor Kathy Hochul and state attorney general Tish James were also spotted at the conference without masks, as were most of the state&#8217;s other Democratic leaders. State senate president Andrea Stewart-Cousins was spotted on video violating the mask mandate. Carl Heastie, speaker of the New York state assembly, posted a photo of himself, along with New York City councilman Kevin Riley, state senator Jamaal Bailey, and congressman Greg Meeks, posing without masks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1536987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/new-york-dems.png\" alt width=\"736\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/new-york-dems.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/new-york-dems-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/new-york-dems-669x491.png 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<p>Meeks isn&#8217;t the only New York member of Congress who violated the mask mandate. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, and Rep. Tom Suozzi, a potential gubernatorial candidate, were all photographed maskless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1537119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-09-at-12.38.08-PM.png\" alt width=\"392\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-09-at-12.38.08-PM.png 392w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-09-at-12.38.08-PM-142x300.png 142w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-09-at-12.38.08-PM-232x491.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1537089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0.png\" alt width=\"900\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-864x1536.png 864w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-736x1308.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-276x491.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1537095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1.png\" alt width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1.png 900w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-112x85.png 112w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-736x552.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-655x491.png 655w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pasted-image-0-1-800x600.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"26.425531914894\">\n<p>Weingarten, meanwhile, took part in a crowded panel discussion with other teachers&#8217; union leaders, none of whom were wearing masks or practicing social distancing. As president of the American Federation of Teachers, Weingarten has been at the forefront of the effort to keep public schools closed and children in masks. Weingarten apologized after being called out on social media for violating the mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We took them off as people were having a hard time hearing us,&#8221; Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1457046685692174342\">said<\/a>, implicitly acknowledging that forcing children to wear masks in schools was detrimental to their ability to learn. Weingarten only recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/08\/opinion\/public-school-enrollment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a> that schools could stop requiring children to wear masks <em>outdoors&nbsp;<\/em>during recess.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.), who over the summer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/maloney-french-scandal\/\">defied<\/a> the State Department&#8217;s travel restrictions to attend a maskless wedding in France, was not spotted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tag-list\" readability=\"3.9176470588235\">\n<p class=\"w-full p-0 m-0\"><strong>Published under:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/bill-de-blasio\/\" title=\"View all posts in Bill de Blasio\">Bill de Blasio<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/chuck-schumer\/\" title=\"View all posts in Chuck Schumer\">Chuck Schumer<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" title=\"View all posts in Democratic Party\">Democratic Party<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/gregory-meeks\/\" title=\"View all posts in Gregory Meeks\">Gregory Meeks<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/kathy-hochul\/\" title=\"View all posts in Kathy Hochul\">Kathy Hochul<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/letitia-james\/\" title=\"View all posts in Letitia James\">Letitia James<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/mask-mandate\/\" title=\"View all posts in Mask Mandate\">Mask Mandate<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/masks\/\" title=\"View all posts in Masks\">Masks<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" title=\"View all posts in New York\">New York<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/puerto-rico\/\" title=\"View all posts in Puerto Rico\">Puerto Rico<\/a><\/span>, <span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/randi-weingarten\/\" title=\"View all posts in Randi Weingarten\">Randi Weingarten<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.) last week joined teachers&#8217; union boss Randi Weingarten and a squad of New York Democrats on a taxpayer-funded getaway to Puerto Rico. True to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"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-989799","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\/989799","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989799\/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=989799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}