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Resolution Overturning Mask Mandate Clears Senate; Assembly Next
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | January 27, 2021
From WisPolitics.com . . .
The Assembly tomorrow is set to take up a resolution that would overturn the guv’s mask mandate after it cleared the Senate 18-13.
GOP Sens. Rob Cowles, of Green Bay, and Dale Kooyenga, of Brookfield, joined Dems in opposing the resolution.
Kooyenga said on the floor he didn’t disagree with a single word in the resolution. At the same time, he feared people would use the passage of the resolution to justify keeping schools closed to in-person instruction. He said students are suffering from virtual learning and the driving issue for him in the coming months is to get them back in the classroom, saying a generation of kids could be lost.
“I stand with opening our schools, and I stand with the health care providers in my district,” said Kooyenga, the only Republican member of the Senate whose seat was won by Joe Biden in November.
Cowles, meanwhile, said he believed the resolution sent the wrong message and would result in fewer people wearing masks. He said he was standing by the side of science that has shown masks are an useful tool in limiting the spread of COVID-19 and with health care workers.
“The health care community has suffered through this entire ordeal, and I wasn’t about to make it worse,” he said.
See more on the Senate debate here.
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