“I Humbly Ask For Your Forgiveness” — Yet Another Democrat Leader Busted Breaking His Own COVID Rules
"I decided it would be safer for me to travel to see them than to have two family members travel back to Denver"
How can you be a leader & not get how wrong this is? This is the selfishness that keeps us in this mess & it's an insult to everyone sacrificing for the greater good. https://t.co/oUk7Eknpwd
— Seth Haber (@treklightgear) November 26, 2020
- “I Humbly Ask For Your Forgiveness” – Yet Another Democrat Leader Busted Breaking His Own COVID Rules
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
Update (1330ET): In standard Democrat crisis management mode, the mayor drafted a virtue-signaling statement asking for the peasantry of Denver to forgive him: (emphasis ours)
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I fully acknowledge that I have urged everyone to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel. I have shared how my family cancelled our plans for our traditional multi-household Thanksgiving celebration.
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What I did not share, but should have, is that my wife and my daughter have been in Mississippi, where my daughter recently took a job. As the holiday approached, I decided it would be safer for me to travel to see them than to have two family members travel back to Denver.
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I recognize that my decision has disappointed many who believe it would have been better to spend Thanksgiving alone. As a public official, whose conduct is rightly scrutinized for the message it sends to others…
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…I apologize to the residents of Denver who see my decision as conflicting with the guidance to stay at home for all but essential travel.
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I made my decision as a husband and father, and for those who are angry and disappointed, I humbly ask you to forgive decisions that are borne of my heart and not my head.
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The damage was done, however…
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I don’t usually jump in when people are apologizing to say “not good enough” but this is a typical “I’m sorry you feel that way.” He’s not sorry he did it, he’s sorry he got caught. https://t.co/oEcIygCVi8
— MirriamZary ?? (@mirriam71) November 26, 2020
So you want special treatment for *your* family but everyone else is supposed to sacrifice time with theirs. https://t.co/H4m5mOHVeB
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) November 26, 2020
This has got to be one of the lamest, worst, poor excuses of a statement any politician caught with his hand in the cookie jar has ever issued. https://t.co/oUoYcDrDu8
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 26, 2020
Part 5,792 of “Rules for thee but not for me” https://t.co/VufpsCVKzP
— Logan Ratick (@Logan_Ratick) November 26, 2020
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