Diana Becton, the district attorney for the contra-Costa County in California, who is accused of enforcing state and local coronavirus regulations, allegedly broke the rules in the summer to host a wedding reception in her Bay Area backyard offers, according to local reports.
She left notes for her neighbors and warned that there would be extra cars in the area during the Aug. 1 celebration ’20 to 30 ‘, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. This happened while the country was being monitored for a high risk for COVID-19 transmission.
She told the newspaper that she “kept a small, extra-fidelity and complied with the state and county restrictions”, although these rules do not allow the reception of marriage. Although witnesses apparently see guests wearing masks and being socially removed, food and alcohol are served, and music is allegedly played until the evening.
SANTA ANA, CA – AUGUST 21: Attorney Diana Becton, Contra Costa District, during a Golden State Killer Press Conference in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen / Orange County Register via Getty Images)
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“She would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know that our governor and our state health officials have strongly discouraged and sometimes banned gatherings of any kind,” Harmeet Dhillon, executive director of the Center for American Liberty, told Fox. News on Sunday.
Especially since Becton last year set up a task force to combat coronavirus violators of state and county guidelines.
“We take these complaints very seriously,” she told provincial officials in mid-November, according to local news site Danville San Ramon, as her office noticed a stir in complaints about people removing the mask and social distance measures. .
Becton’s office did not immediately respond to a request from Fox News for comment. She told the Chronicle that she hoped she was “doing nothing that violates any rules” and that no one on her occasion contracted the virus.
“Her tone is deaf, rough remark about how ‘we not only get married in my community, we have a celebration’, it’s literally every community in the world,” Dhillon said. “Literally every civilization celebrates marriage with a gathering. It’s human nature.”
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“It’s blowing my head,” Dhillon said. “I just celebrated my tenth wedding anniversary this weekend. It did not add me as a person who respects the law, even though I did not agree with it, to hold a celebration – despite the fact that it is very clear that some celebrations are now banned by law. ‘
The Contra Costa DA is not the only prominent Democrat from California who criticizes alleged hypocrisy for violating the party’s coronavirus guidelines.
Government Gavin Newsom, currently the target of a recall attempt amid setbacks over his handling of state affairs, sparked outrage in November for attending a maskless lunch at the expensive French Water Restaurant in the California wine country, where meals even outnumbered thousands. dollars can cost. before alcoholic beverages are included. The general manager of the California Medical Association was among the guests.
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Newsom’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the Becton incident, although he did apologize after his own incident, saying he ‘should preach and practice, not just preach’.
The mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, went there after a similar meal, which also drew criticism, and the mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, may have violated his own COVID restrictions after joining his parents for ‘ traveled a thanksgiving dinner while publicly urging the inhabitants of the city not to do so.