GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The President of the Green Bay Common Council was one of the voices speaking out against the mask mandate approved on Tuesday.
Council President Jesse Brunette says the mandate is an example of bad governance.
“Things that should have been done at the committee level were done on the floor the full city council,” Brunette said of the three-hour-long Tuesday meeting. “It was a very interesting meeting.”
Brunette argues the mandate is a hard-to-enforce government overreach that will hurt businesses in the city.
“This ordinance, as presented and voted on, is going to put a lot of burden on our businesses that are struggling to simply survive,” Brunette told WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’ on Wednesday.
The council approved the mandate 7-5. It requires masks to be worn inside buildings the public has common access to. Brunette says it’s not that he doesn’t take the virus seriously.
“It’s a venn diagram with three overlapping circles. One is people who are concerned about government overreach, another is people concerned about economic hardship, and the other is concern about the virus. I’m in the middle,” said Brunette. “I believe that this is a real virus and we have to take precautions… but the impending economic devastation is something that we can’t take lightly.”
The mask mandate begins on Monday.
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