KINGMAN – After taking a strong position against the mask mandate in her home city of Kingman, local lawmaker Regina Cobb Regina Cobb said she is also opposed to face covering requirements imposed in Lake Havasu and Bullhead City. The Dist. 5 republican state rep. said her stand is mostly about Constitutional infringement by requiring masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cobb said she wants to protect liberty and that businesses and citizens should be able to make their own mask decisions without government dictates. She said she believes social distancing and hygiene protocols should be followed.
Pressure exerted by Cobb saw Kingman Mayor Jen Miles backpedal from her extension of the mask mandate through the end of the year by proclamation. Miles agreed to allow the full city council to decide the mask controversy at its Sept. 15 meeting.
The Bullhead City council will also assess the status of the Bullhead City mask mandate on Sept. 15. A similar mandate is in effect through Oct. 15 in Lake Havasu City.
Cobb said she is hopeful that the state legislature can reconvene its coronavirus-interrupted legislative session, possibly “when things settle” after the Nov. 3 general election. She said lawmakers were able to handle about 70% of this year’s business but that important matters are pending.
Cobb said the most important thing lawmakers need to handle involve COVIDS-19 liability matters threatening health care, education, government and other sectors. She also said about a dozen economic development bills had been floated before the legislative shutdown.
Cobb expressed hope of passing economic development facilitating measures to bolster the private sector as much as possible in pulling out of the pandemic.
- -Dave Hawkins
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We, the people have a constitutional right to life, to NOT die from transmitted viruses. When Cobb was practicing dentistry, she wore masks and gloves as a health protection. I guess that was a violation of the Constitution also. What hypocrisy. She gets her marching orders from Gosar, who she hopes to succeed in Congress. That would be two dentists too many.