An elected official in Alabama apparently compared the COVID-19 vaccine passport with the badge the Nazis forced Jews to wear, and apologized for it.
Kimberly B. Cook (Kimberly B. Cook), a member of the Vestavia Hill City Council outside Birmingham Facebook A member of the public claimed that “soon we will be required to wear a golden’U’ on the chest pocket, which is the Jewish badge of Germany.”
His comments were posted with pictures of Jewish girls and women wearing the star.
Cook, his husband of more than 30 years is running for Alabama Supreme Court In 2022, the answer is: “Yes, this analogy is very suitable.”
In a public post on Facebook, Vestavia Hills City Council members (and the wife of the AL Supreme Court candidate) said that the vaccine passport is equivalent to a massacre. pic.twitter.com/FRhpdeNH76
— Kyle Whitmeyer (@WarOnDumb) August 13, 2021
In response to her comment, someone posted a picture of the California immunization record card and said: “Are these people completely unfamiliar with this form? The children have asked to go to school and have been doing this for years. We already have a vaccine. Passport’ this man is so ridiculous. And, no, it’s not like a massacre at all.”
Another wrote: “This requires such a perverted cognitive leap, which seems to be a kind of irony. We do live in a completely different spiritual world.”
After her comments were widely shared on social media, Cook deleted the post and later apologized through AL.com, admitting that she had made a “mistake.”
She said: “I am ashamed that I made this mistake, I really. I think I now realize that it is very offensive, because I am deeply aware of the importance of the Holocaust.
“I’m very frustrated. I didn’t expect how I agree with other people’s posts would be reflected. I deeply regret that. This comparison is wrong.”
Cook, who claims to be a writer, artist, musician, boy scout leader, and “Christian conservative”, is reportedly vaccinated, even though she opposes compulsory vaccination.
She served as the Education Liaison for Vestavia Hills City Schools and worked as a software system engineer at SouthTrust Bank before being elected as a member of Parliament.
Her husband, Greg Cook, is running for the position of deputy justice currently held by Justice Mike Bolling.
His slogan on the campaign website is “Tested. Trustworthy. Trump is tough” and was elected President Trump’s representative to the Republican National Convention in 2020.
“Our constitutional rights are under attack by those who try to transform us from a constitutional republic to a socialist country,” his website reads. “As a textualist, Greg Cook believes that the Constitution should be interpreted as it is. Although liberal judges and bureaucrats believe that our constitutional rights are not absolute, Greg will defend our First and Second Amendments. s right.”
Weekly newspaper Contact Kimberly Cook for comment.
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