For weeks, Louisiana’s “family values” Attorney General Jeff Landry has been publicly fighting with the state’s Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards over mask mandates, saying they are a violation of people’s rights.
Then yesterday, shortly before he was supposed to meet with Vice President Mike Pence, Landry announced he had tested positive for coronavirus.
In a statement, Landry’s office said:
Out of an overabundance of caution with the Vice President coming to our State, the Attorney General was tested for the Coronavirus. Though experiencing no symptoms, he tested positive for COVID-19. The Attorney General is quarantining, taking medications prescribed by his doctor, and remaining asymptomatic. He has contacted those with whom he came in contact.
The statement added that Landry’s work as Attorney General remains “uninterrupted” and he will “continue his efforts to protect Louisiana’s families, freedoms, and the rule of law” while recovering.
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Landry, who doesn’t want anyone to know he has a gay brother, has been one of the most vocal opponents against all directives by the governor aimed at slowing down the spread of the deadly virus, whose victims are crowding into Louisiana’s hospitals at record rates.
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Just last week, he urged school board members not only to reopen schools across the Pelican State on schedule next month, but to refrain from mandating masks because it infringes upon students’ liberties.
“We believe that mandating students to wear masks creates a situation that may cross the line on liberty, and also may become a tremendous distraction with enforcement,” Landry said on July 9, adding that teachers should not have to play “mask-enforcement police.”
And last month, he criticized the State Fire Marshal H. Browning Jr. for supporting a temporary ban on indoor events, like concerts and other live entertainment, saying such a ban violated the state Constitution.
Since testing positive for coronavirus, however, Landry has been trying to revise his own history, claiming he’s worked very hard to fight COVID-19 and “never discouraged masks.”
Jeff Landry before catching COVID: masks are an infringement on liberty and the disease isn't that big a deal
Jeff Landry after catching COVID: https://t.co/aOLDdyyGTU pic.twitter.com/ubfTC0ejt6— Applebapple's Nehhborhor Grib & Bib (@JCStandsFor___) July 15, 2020
Landry has a long history of fighting with Gov. Edwards. In in 2016, he won a court battle against the governor to take away existing LGBTQ protections for state employees.
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Mister P
Schadenfreude. Getting pleasure from another’s misfortune.
rbernard
Jeff Landry is a well known anti gay religious bigot who uses the law against the LGBTQ.
He is no friend of our tribe.
He is the worse kind and is influenced by other right wing haters like the evil folks the Family Research Council, America Family Association, and Alliance Defending Freedom.
Even worst, he goes out of his way to paw at Donald Trump to earn his attention.
The scary part is, “to what end”.
barryaksarben
HE says history is made by the lawmakers but I have to strongly disagree. History many times is made by the people who have opposed discriminatory, racist and sexist laws made by bigots like him. I can only hope he has as bad a viral infection as the people he seems to care so very little for
Chipster
Well, i call KARMA – not because he’s anti-gay, but because he’s anti-mask!
Schools can prevent girls from wearing t-shirts, or sleeveless tops of any kind, and guy’s jeans can be mandated to have no holes, rips, or tears… and the dress code list could go on and on…
But wearing a mask is a step-too-far?
ONLY if your nose is stuck so far up Trump’s ass that his ass-cheeks block you from seeing all the DEAD PEOPLE from this virus!
david_warner
Well, good or him. I hope he gets it bad and has to wait his turn for treatment in the over-crowded COVID treatment wing, because that’s entirely on him and everyone else should get priority.
butchqueen
Disease is HILARIOUS!!!
Jbaltes
May he die in peace!
Kevan1
He did it to himself. Hard to feel sorry for people who do not care about humanity or protecting the people they were elected to protect.
Invader7
Karma !!! Another Agolf Twitterler brown noser . It would be total thinning of the herd if this d-bag all the other Drumpies DIES !!
pavel20
My main concern here is not about Landry. It’s the people he came in contact with that have my concern. This man was asymptomatic. Who knows who he exposed to the virus that may have a more severe, life-threatening reaction to that exposure? It is this selfishness, particularly for a public official, that is disgraceful.
James
HE IS A CREEP. I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THAT HATE FILLED LOSER.