Senators Jim Stalzer (R-Dist. 11), Al Novstrup (R-Dist. 3), and Maggie Sutton (R-Dist. 10), and Representatives Jon Hansen (R-Dist. 25), Sue Peterson (R-Dist. 13), Marli Wiese (R-Dist. 8 ), and Scott Odenbach (R-Dist. 31) announced a petition Tuesday, Oct. 26, asking their fellow legislators to provide protections for South Dakota employees subject to termination. They are asking for legislation similar to that which is being proposed in other states. South Dakota, upheld across the nation as a freedom loving state, should be in the lead on this issue!
Call and email your Representatives and Senator TODAY and urge them to sign the petition for a SPECIAL SESSION and to further PASS legislation to protect our freedom from mandates that coerce and compel COVID vaccination; mandates that violate our constitutional freedoms, breach medical freedom and threaten a person’s ability to provide for themself and their family.
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"We live in a free country and we should stand up against mandates that threaten the loss of livelihood for any person and family,” said Representative Marli Wiese, who represents the legislative district which includes Madison.
“You shouldn’t be handed a pink slip for not receiving a Covid-19 injection,” said House Speaker Pro Tempore Jon Hansen. “We’ve heard from countless South Dakotans asking for help from these mandates. I was recently contacted by a woman from Sioux Falls who still doesn’t know if she’ll receive a religious exemption or be fired. After submitting a comprehensive statement regarding her faith and why a religious exemption is necessary for her, her employer responded with close to a dozen personal and invasive follow-up questions about her and her religion. Governments and corporations should not be the gatekeepers of an individual’s religious views. A family’s livelihood shouldn’t depend on getting the shot, especially if their concerns are rooted in faith. We need these protections in state law right now.”
“There is a shortage of quality trained workers in just about every industry including the airline, manufacturing, trucking industry, and the medical community, and yet these industries are threatening to fire needed South Dakota employees for wanting the freedom to make the best medical decision in consultation with their family doctor,” said Senator Al Novstrup. “Firing these quality employees is bad for the fired employee, bad for the company that is losing a trained employee, and bad for those consumers that depend upon the fired employee for needed services. Who other than Washington DC and the Biden administration thinks firing trained, loyal, hard working employees is a good idea?”
“Religious protections and research-backed medical exemptions make sense for South Dakota workers,” said Senator Maggie Sutton. ‘Two-weeks to flatten the curve’ has led to ‘get this brand new shot or kiss your job goodbye.’ Plus, who knows how many boosters they’ll demand indefinitely. No one should have that level of control over your job and life. Total control, it’s not right. People should be able to get the shot if they want, but we need more protection for those that don’t want it right now.”
“The South Dakota values of liberty and personal responsibility need to be brought back into the conversation, especially as peoples’ jobs are on the line,” said Representative Scott Odenbach from Spearfish. “I’m hearing from lots of newer South Dakotans—refugees from blue state authoritarian policies—working remotely for companies based in those other states. Those companies don’t trust people to follow their faith or to follow the science and want to place mandates on our citizens. We need to empower regular South Dakotans again. When big corporations and big medical systems become complicit with big government overreach, it becomes necessary for the representatives of the people to take action to protect their liberties.”
Have you ever been seriously injured or had a family member that was involved in a severe accident and they or you needed a blood infusion? Where did you get that blood? The hospital of course, and they obviously got it from a blood donation bank.
Well, I’m sure your hoping that the life saving blood is at its purest and doesn’t have any strange side effects.
I’m a regular donor at the Vitalent Blood services and in the past few years, I have given over 5 gallons of pure blood (no vaccine). In the past few months, I have heard some of the scary side effects from the vaccines that are available. So, to insure I’m able to be a good source of life saving blood for those who desperately need it, I’m holding off on getting any vaccination. Now, however, being I work at 3M in Aberdeen, I’m being forced to take the vaccine or get fired. And not just me, but hundreds of others who are at risk of losing their jobs, and just in time for the holidays. If you have ever found yourself in that rare, life altering situation where your life depended on others, now your in the position to pay it forward.
Please and thank you!!!
To threaten employees, to coerce employees to inject dangerous chemicals into their sacred bodies, to bombard the world population with unending, hourly virus/vaccine propaganda through media that is censured, is an egregious betrayal to mankind. This is a reprehensible assault on humanity. Corporations need to fight back and encourage their employees to fight back in order to defend the basic human right to take care of our health the way individuals CHOOSE.