Republican U.S. Senate rivals Bill Hagerty and Manny Sethi are getting pilloried on social media after they and a number of other attendees at a Hamilton County Republican Party fundraiser were shown in photos as maskless and not maintaining social distance in a county with COVID-19 mask-wearing requirements.
Also coming under fire was Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond, shown maskless and not maintaining six-foot distance either at the GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner on Friday night.
Hagerty’s campaign posted a montage of photos on his campaign’s Facebook page of the candidate, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan, with other unmasked attendees – including keynote speakers Diamond and Silk.
“So the citizens of Hamilton county are under a mask mandate but I see no masks,” one Facebook user commented.
Another posted, “You are a doctor,” in response to trauma surgeon Sethi’s Twitter account, which showed the unmasked Sethi meeting with unmasked supporters. “Where is your mask? Where are everyone else’s? I thought there was a mandate?!”