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By Ben Kesslen
February 6, 2022 | 3:56pm
Georgia Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams was slammed for posting a
maskless photo with other masked children and adults.
Twitter/@staceyabrams
Democratic star and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has
sparked outrage after tweeting a photo of herself posing indoors with
masked-up students — without wearing a mask herself.
Abrams, 48, joins many of her Democratic peers including California Gov.
Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who have been seen gallivanting indoors without masks despite supporting strict
face-covering mandates.
The former state minority leader initially tweeted the photo herself at Glennwood Elementary School in Atlanta Friday, writing “Spending time
with Glennwood’s amazing students, faculty and staff ranks as
spectacular, delightful and outstanding.”
Not only were the pictured students wearing masks, but all the adults in
the room also appeared to be masked.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was pictured maskless
at Glennwood school on February 4, 2022.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was pictured maskless at Glennwood school on February 4, 2022.
Twitter/@HMBrookins
Abrams’ tweet was later taken down, but users posted pics of the pol answering questions sans mask during a Q&A and posing for more photos
without a face covering.
Abrams, who is vaccinated, has been a vocal supporter of mask mandates throughout the pandemic. In July 2020, Abrams slammed Republican Gov.
Brian Kemp for his ban on mask mandates, saying it showed “incompetency” and “immorality.”
Kemp’s criticism was one in a chorus of conservatives who said the
pictures from Friday were evidence of the Democrat’s “mask hypocrisy.”
“Stacey Abrams wants state government mask mandates for Georgians and
their children. But it looks like they wouldn’t apply when she’s
attending a photo op,” Gov. Kemp, who beat Abrams in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election and who she is expected to rematch in 2022, wrote
on Twitter Saturday evening.
Editor of the National Review Rich Lowry joked on Twitter that Abrams
“is a member of the Democratic elite in good standing—mask hypocrisy is practically a status symbol now.”
Conservative commentator Clay Travis wrote, “The number of left-wing politicians who post photos posing without masks while all the kids
around them are wearing masks is stunning.”
Former Georgia Senator David Perdue, who is running against Kemp in the
2022 Republican primary, also chastised Abrams, saying in a statement,
“Where is Stacey’s mask? We all know Stacey Abram’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.”
In a statement posted online Sunday, Abrams’ campaign went on the attack.
Stacey Abrams
The Georgia nominee has been a supporter of mask mandates since the
beginning of COVID-19.
Twitter/@staceyabrams
“It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month
reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political
attack, and it is pitiful and predictable that our opponents continue to
look for opportunities to distract from their failed records when it
comes to protecting public health during the pandemic,” it said.
Abrams’ campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo tweeted that “Our opponents
took a brief break from licking Trump’s boots this weekend to issue
baseless attacks.”
Groh-Wargo also tried to downplay the incident, explaining in another
tweet that Abrams only removed her mask “so she could be heard by
students watching remotely and for photos” with kids wearing face coverings.
“Stacey trusts science and supports masking in schools as it’s the
current CDC recommendation,” Groh-Wargo said.
Just last week, Newsom came under fire after posing maskless for a photo
during the 49ers-Rams NFL game – defying a local mandate and the LA stadium’s own requirements. The Democratic insisted he was “very judicious” about wearing the mask and only took it off for a photo.
And when both San Francisco Mayor Breed and Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti smiled for a maskless pic with Magic Johnson at the same game, Garcetti claimed he held his breath for the pic, which prevented him
from contracting COVID-19.
Breed caused a stir in September, too, when after issuing one of the
strictest indoor mask mandates in the state, she was photographed at a
city jazz club dancing and singing without a mask.
Abrams gained nationwide attention during her 2018 campaign against Kemp
and quickly became a Democratic star.
She lost the election by around 50,000 votes but has said the process
wasn’t fair because it was run by Kemp, who was then Secretary of State,
and refused to concede.
She openly stated her desire to be Joe Biden’s running mate and was shortlisted by Biden before he ultimately chose then-Sen. Kamala Harris.
Abrams was the minority leader in Georgia’s House of Representatives
from 2011 to 2017 and is a vocal voting rights advocate.
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