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Georgia Guv Refuses Mask Mandate but Wants to Gag Atlanta Mayor

WHAT’S HE AFRAID OF?

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms isn’t having it.

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is slamming Gov. Brian Kemp for trying to gag her in their fight over a mask mandate. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Bottoms said the emergency injunction that the anti-lockdown Republican is seeking won’t work. “Far more have sacrificed too much more for me to be silent,” she wrote. Kemp has filed a lawsuit to bar Bottoms from enacting any anti-coronavirus restrictions that go beyond what the state has put into effect. As part of that, he asked a judge to stop Bottoms from making public statements that she has the authority to do just that. Georgia broke its one-day record for new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, reporting 4,689.

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