The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como park emails:
A restaurant owner in Albert Lea has been convicted of violating Walz’ Executive Order to close. The judge gave her 90 days in jail.
A restaurant owner in Lynd (near Marshall) had her restaurant license yanked by the Minnesota Department of Health because she stayed open in defiance of Gov. Walz’ Executive Order to close.
Those of us who have worked with small-town restaurant owners know it’s a business with brutal working hours and razor-thin margins. They don’t get paid vacation. They don’t have capital reserves to weather a ‘temporary’ shutdown of ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ which dragged into months. The cooks and wait staff are typically local people of limited skills who depend on these jobs to survive. The banks typically force owners to pledge their homes as collateral for the business loan so if the business fails, they lose everything.
There is no scientific evidence that closing a small town restaurant but allowing larger restaurants (including casinos) to remain open, has any effect on public health. The Executive Order took away vested property rights with no rational basis. It’s unconstitutional.
Governor Walz stole these people’s livelihoods and robbed them of their future, for no reason.
Refused to obey an unconstitutional order to close, so their employees could feed their families? They ought to be given a medal.
Joe Doakes
You’ve got to break some eggs to make a kombucha.
Or something like that.
December 13th, 2021 at 6:54 am
The judge in the Albert Lea woman’s case wanted to teach her a lesson. He berated her from the bench for “wanting to make money during a global pandemic”. She is now ruined. That’ll show her.
I’d like to know if Judge A55hole is as hard on the real crimes that come before him in the AL area? As opposed to violating Royal Decrees – er, Executive Orders.
December 13th, 2021 at 7:16 am
It occurs to me to note that from this royal decree, to letting Mpls burn, to locking down businesses, to not putting away criminals… the Walz regime and its supporters are against property rights.
December 13th, 2021 at 9:26 am
Meanwhile, the guy convicted of knocking over the Christopher Columbus statue receives a suspended sentence.
December 13th, 2021 at 4:51 pm
Somehow there ought to be a proverb to the effect of “a foolish or unconstitutional executive order can go ten miles while a counter-action is still getting its pants on.” Gov. Walz’s illegal and strongly counter-productive regulations need a firm legislative counterbalance.
(and yes, counter-productive–the nursing home where my daughters used to work was allowed to reject COVID patients only when they’d demonstrated they were currently COVID-free–the notion of “more sources makes for more disease” didn’t seem to be in their worldview)
December 14th, 2021 at 4:35 am
You pays your money, and you takes your chances. Enjoy the ride Minnesotans.
December 14th, 2021 at 5:35 pm
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