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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ten U.S. governors on the east and west coasts banded together on Monday in two regional pacts to coordinate gradual economic reopenings as the coronavirus crisis finally appeared to be ebbing.

Announcements from the New York-led group of Northeastern governors, and a similar compact formed by California, Oregon and Washington state, came as President Donald Trump declared any decision on restarting the U.S. economy was up to him.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was teaming up with five counterparts in adjacent New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island to devise the best strategies for easing stay-at-home orders imposed last month to curb coronavirus transmissions.

Massachusetts later said it was joining the East Coast coalition.

“Nobody has been here before, nobody has all the answers,” said Cuomo, whose state has become the U.S. epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, during an open conference call with five other governors. “Addressing public health and the economy: Which one is first? They’re both first.”

The three Pacific Coast states announced they, too, planned to follow a shared approach for lifting social-distancing measures, but said they “need to see a decline in the rate of spread of the virus before large-scale reopening” can take place.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...s-idUSKCN21V185

As you know, there is a developing quarrel between the President and these state governors over who has the authority to lift the sanctions and shutdowns. The irony of the situation is, despite the 10th Amendment, few if any of these blue state governors have even given a flip about state's rights in the past. In fact, quite the opposite. "progressives" have always advocated and fought for the centralization of power in DC.

But not this time. Why? Obviously they are taking the default anti-Trump position, but even more are they planning on slowing down any positive economic activity as long as possible so as to hurt the President's reelection chances?

Could be.

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This week, after forming a pact to coordinate their response to the coronavirus pandemic, the governors of California, Washington, and Oregon each made statements to the press that indicate they are months, not weeks, away from lifting restrictions on movement, education, and commerce.

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All three governors made concerted efforts to remind people that the shutdown efforts could last months, not weeks. All three made widespread testing a condition of lifting restrictions - testing which currently doesn't exist in a widespread quantity. All three made every attempt to condition folks to start to change their expectations, and that this constitutes the new normal. None has any plan to consult with their legislatures, debate public policy in a meaningful way, or get input from any but their most trusted advisors.

All that remains is whether residents of each state will accept this new normal without protest, or begin to demand better from their governors.

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https://pjmedia.com/trending/west-coast-...8-9cz7VDIg1HqS8

Murphy was recently interviewed by Tucker and when asked about his draconian shut down measures possibly conflicting with Constitutional rights of freedom of religion and freedom of assembly, replied such a discussion was "above his pay grade".

Todd Starnes, whom I admire, sees the same warning signs I do.

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Democrats Will Keep the States Closed to Tank the Economy and Take Down Trump

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https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstar...&recip=21733656

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Gov. Jay Inslee announced today that Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak are joining Washington, Oregon and California in the Western States Pact -- a working group of Western state governors with a shared vision for modifying stay at home orders and fighting COVID-19.

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That makes a quintet of DEMOCRAT governors who are now colluding to violate Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution which states, "No state shall, without the Consent of Congress... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another state, or with a foreign power...”

Surprised the Constitution means nothing to them?