State Lawmaker Banned from Alaska Airlines

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State Lawmaker Banned from Alaska Airlines

April 25, 2021 at 10:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 138 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/25/state-lawmaker-banned-from-alaska-airlines/

"SNIP.....

Alaska Airlines told the Anchorage Daily News that State Senator Lora Reinbold (R) has been banned from its flights for refusing to follow mask-wearing rules.

There’s no overland road access from Reinbold’s district to the state capital in Anchorage and Alaska Air provides the only airline service. That means if Reinbold wants to travel to the capital, the trip will take roughly three days, including a part by boat.

A video shows Reinbold arguing with airport staff about wearing a mask.

......SNIP"

[Mad_Machine76]

1. She....um....found out?

[RegularJam]

2. It's one of the most pathetic mountains to die on I've ever seen. Nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. The definition of dumb has yet another prime example.

[Skittles]

4. I'm confused, in this video she is wearing a mask?

[Celerity]

5. she was ejected from the Republican-led majority caucus in March 2015

https://www.adn.com/politics/article/reinbolds-role-passion-issues-without-allies-helping-or-holding-her-back/2015/03/27/

sounds like a real winner

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. She's also lost committee chair positions for being a maskhole

Even republicans can’t stand her bullshit

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/04/19/senate-votes-to-remove-reinbold-as-chair-of-judiciary-committee/

Gov. Mike Dunleavy sent Reinbold a letter earlier this session saying the administration would no longer respond to her as the Judiciary Committee chair. In the letter, he said she had spread misinformation about the administration’s response to the pandemic.

Reinbold has called for the governor to retract the letter and apologize. Some of his appointees later met with the committee for their confirmation hearings.

Reinbold asserts that the governor’s office is responsible for her being removed from her position, but Micciche and other leaders say the decision has nothing to do with the administration.

At one point, Senate leaders barred her from most of the Capitol building, citing her failure to comply with COVID-19 safety requirements to wear a facemask and undergo rapid coronavirus tests. While she started to comply with the rules, she was later fined for another violation.

Another conflict occurred during a Senate Health and Social Services Committee meeting on Thursday, during which Reinbold did not comply with the mask requirement. She said she told a nonpartisan committee aide that if they were concerned about it, then perhaps they consider not working in a job close to others.

[Talitha]

7. Hahahahaha!!!!

[JohnnyRingo]

8. I guess she wins?

She stood her ground and is not going to be forced to wear a mask on a cross country flight, and there's nothing they can do about it. Oh, wait...

Her inability to think things through means it's best that she stay out of the capital anyway.

[DFW]

9. "no overland road access from Reinbold's district to the state capital in Anchorage?"

That's original. Does "politicalwire," whoever that is, use maps provided by Fox "News?"