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Scott Carlson's avatar

Here's to hoping the ruling on religious discrimination moves things along. My fire dept. fired 300 years of combined service in one day. Everyone one of us had a signed and approved religious exemption. We even had signed approved accommodations until the mayor reversed and denied them all. No surprise our city, Redmond WA is Microsoft world hq...

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Alison Smith's avatar

I hope you are suing.

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Roger Beal's avatar

I hope you are moving out of WA state soon.

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Scott Carlson's avatar

Once I was terminated we left.

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Alison Smith's avatar

I live in Ohio.

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Scott Carlson's avatar

Trying, courts and city keep moving things.

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Khallas's avatar

Scott, many in Redmond, Kirkland, and Bellevue fought hard for you guys. We protested, spoke in city council meetings, and pooled our resources to help serve common lawful notices to mayors and city council members on camera. They thumbed their noses at us and you just like our great governor thumbed his nose at the tens of thousands of notarized affidavits that were physically delivered to him. WA state is completely lawless. They have arbitrarily fired every person of conscience from city boards, Healthcare, elections, education, and EMS. They have gone rogue from any pretense of following the laws of the United States of America. What do we do about it?

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Scott Carlson's avatar

Great job fighting and thank you. Going forward I'd really examine who's elected. In Redmond mayor Birney is up for reelection. Jaralee is a council member who tried to oppose Birneys actions.

Good job fighting, keep it up.

"All that is necessary for evil to win is for good men to do nothing"......

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DenaAshlock's avatar

I live in Redmond. I grieve in my core for how this city has been taken over by power- and money-hungry politicians. I would bet that Microsoft granted lots of dollars to the City to replace the non-vaxxed. MS has ruined the look of Redmond.

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Scott Carlson's avatar

Agreed. It's sad. We worked 18 months w/o the vax being available. We zero cross contamination, 100% success. I was our safety chair, head of health and wellness, Lieutenant and EMS instructor. The moment the vax was available we went from heroes to zeros. No change in environment, calls or PPE just the availability of the shot made my coworkers and mayor say things like " let the hunger games begin", " if you get sick you don't deserve a bed". They divided the fire family.

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DenaAshlock's avatar

It's still shocking to think about the dark period that we just lived through, and that for some, continues. I want to surround myself with people like you and your strong colleagues & families who stood by your beliefs and principles. The absolute mind-blowing scene of watching the good guys like yourself being called the bad ones was truly dystopic. I'm lucky to be employed.....I was gonna be shown the exit had Biden's vaxx "orders" for private employers made it through. The people in Redmond and this area seem to believe in the religion of Science....they may not realize it, but it is truly a religion (they have faith in and believe in doctors, textbooks, the mainstream media, politicians, NASA, etc). May you be very blessed in the long run.

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Monterey's avatar

Greetings from Union Hill!

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DenaAshlock's avatar

That’s where I live as well. 😃

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Monterey's avatar

Awesome! I love this part of Redmond. We used to live in Sammamish until we moved here, and I always knew that somehow we'd end up at Union Hill whenever we next moved from there.

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Monterey's avatar

That was so wrong!

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