House Speaker Louise Stutes to legislators who refuse to wear a face mask: “This is the policy, and if you think you’re going to come in here and totally ignore the policy, we simply aren’t going to have session.'
The Alaska House canceled another floor session Wednesday over what Speaker Louise Stutes said was an unwillingness by some minority Republican lawmakers to comply with masking rules.
“This is the policy, and if you think you’re going to come in here and totally ignore the policy, we simply aren’t going to have session,” she said. Stutes “is the sole person who’s making the decision to have or to not have floor sessions,” she said. Plesha said given the “continued refusal of a few representatives to follow the temporary mask requirement on the House floor while we try to manage an active COVID outbreak in the building, floor session has been cancelled until next week, when case counts hopefully subside.”
Stutes recessed a floor session Monday, saying there were members who had “chosen not to comply” with the rules. House floor sessions the next two days were canceled.
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