Tearful Bar Owner After Being Shut Down By “Health” Police: “I Just Know I’m Doing The Right Thing”
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The DC health department shut down the H Street bar and burger joint the Big Board
The reasoning was they repeatedly violated DC’s indoor mask and vaccine mandates.
The DC health department officially shut down H Street bar and burger joint the Big Board Tuesday night, days after its liquor license was suspended for repeated violations of DC’s indoor mask and vaccine mandates. Stripped of its ability to sell alcohol, the business had continued operating with only food.
The bar has now officially risen to the national spotlight as prominent right-wing pundits and politicians rally around its open defiance to local Covid rules. Co-owner Eric Flannery gave his first real interview Monday night to Laura Ingraham on Fox News. (“I’m apolitical,” he told her, also noting the mask mandate “doesn’t really make any sense.”) Then on Tuesday, four Republican members of Congress—Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Tim Burchett, and Victoria Spartz—made appearances at the Big Board after health inspectors posted a big yellow closure notice on its door, the Washington Examiner reported. The lawmakers and others indulged in some burgers and fries anyway.
“I’m incredibly proud of him. I’m very supportive of what he’s doing, because he’s saying my individual liberty is worth the price of me even losing my business,” Paul told the Daily Signal. The senator also tweeted out fundraising pages for the Big Board to his 3.5 million followers. So far, a GoFundMe campaign started by Daily Caller correspondent Henry Rodgers has raised more than $20,000 from more than 450 donors.
Paul, who’s introduced a bill in Congress to overturn DC’s vaccine mandates, also said that DC Mayor Muriel Bowser should be impeached, Reason reported.
The Health Department just put a closure notice on his bar:
Some GOP elected officials went to the bar to eat:
. @RepThomasMassie @RepTimBurchett, and @RepSpartz also showed up to support the just-shut-down Big Board joint. Rand Paul had pre planned showing up to support but had no idea the DC health dept was about to shut it down over vax/mask noncompliance pic.twitter.com/77YknC1Kce
— Emily Brooks (@emilybrooksnews) February 2, 2022
While speaking to them, Big Board Owner Eric Flannery became emotional pointing out he has no clue when they are going to get to the other side of this fight against DC’s mask and vaccine mandate.
Here is what he said:
“We are not doing anything wrong. We are treating everyone with respect. That has not been any bad instances here. It just hasn’t happened. I hope that they will see the folly of somebody here who is serving you a drink having to wear a mask. The government doesn’t send me a paycheck. I send the government money. I am not an agent of the government to do this. If they want to come down and check people’s medical staus there more than welcome to. I don’t have the people for that. When people walk into this place we get them and sit them down we get them a drink we get them food and we get them a beer. That’s it. We get them food really good food. I’m talking a lot here but I’m telling you this is what I want to do. Thank you guys for being here I really appreciate it. I don’t know, I really don’t know when people ask me, when are you going to get on the other side of this, I just don’t know. I just know that I’m doing the right thing. And this place is supposed to be open.”
WATCH:
Big Board owner Eric Flannery becomes emotional speaking with GOP lawmakers in his bar tonight: “When people ask me, ‘where are you going to get on the other side of this,’ I don’t know. I just know that I’m doing the right thing. And this place is supposed to be open.” pic.twitter.com/2ui30ypa5y
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) February 2, 2022
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