Culpeper County board declines support of anti-vax mandate resolutions

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Culpeper County board declines support of anti-vax mandate resolutions

BY ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION Culpeper Star-Exponent 3 hrs ago



Culpeper County Supervisor Tom Underwood speaks in support of resolutions prohibiting COVID-19 vaccines and testing requirements.

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The Culpeper County Board of Supervisors, at its Tuesday morning meeting, declined to support a pair of resolutions that would have taken a politically symbolic stand against COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates.

Salem Supervisor Tom Underwood introduced the resolutions drafted, with his direction, by County Administrator John Egertson and County Attorney Bobbi Jo Alexis. Culpeper County Republican Committee Chairman Marshall Keene stood in the back of the boardroom for the ensuing discussion.

The first resolution would have prohibited any county employee from requiring the vaccine or testing for the novel coronavirus.

Cedar Mountain Supervisor Jack Frazier voted with Underwood to support it.

The second resolution declared the board’s intention not to fund any nonprofit or community groups requiring their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine or testing.

Underwood’s motion to adopt the second resolution failed for lack of a second.

The supervisor, a local Republican Committee nominee in the 2019 election, attempted to argue vaccine and testing requirements are unconstitutional.

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