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What They AREN’T Telling You

Episode 20: "I'm Not Going to Have the American Dream Taken Away From Me" - Interview w/ AZ gym owner Jeff Mahaffey

What They AREN’T Telling You

Melissa Floyd

Society & Culture

3.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

"The biggest thing I tell people is I say 'it's my turn now', right? I swore an oath in the Marine Corps to uphold the Constitution and defend my country. And now it's my turn to have that Constitution work for me, and time for me to be able to express my rights--not just defend it, but for me to actually BE a small business owner that can succeed and live the American Dream." 🗣 Today I talk with gym owner and former US military officer Jeff Mahaffey from Arizona. Jeff fought back against shelter-in-place orders that required both of his business locations to shut down, despite the state refusing to show sufficient data or evidence to support that requirement. He realized putting food on the table was more important than the misdemeanor citations—willing to go to court if he had to to protect his freedoms as an American citizen. In this episode he also gives other small business owners some unique advice on how to move forward legally and keep businesses open during these overreaching executive orders. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/melissa-floyd/support

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to another episode of what they aren't telling you with Melissa Floyd.

0:15.0

And today we're going to go into a discussion about business owners and lockdown policy about these overreaching mandates and

0:26.8

closures that are basically affecting people's livelihood. You know we were

0:30.7

originally told this was two weeks to flatten the curve and now we're going on six months of this entire thing and how it's affecting people

0:39.1

If people are pushing back they are no longer going to sit and be told they can't work

0:44.5

because they cannot provide for their families otherwise.

0:47.0

And we're seeing this kind of all over the country.

0:49.2

So today I'm gonna speak with one gentleman

0:51.4

who has pushed back in his area and was really fighting

0:55.2

to keep his business open.

0:56.6

He's a gym, both in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona.

1:01.0

And today I'm talking with Jeff Mahaffey so welcome to the show.

1:04.0

I'm also thank you for having me.

1:06.0

So all right let's kind of start at the beginning.

1:09.0

Somebody had originally sent me your video and said it was a video I think with a

1:14.4

senator or assembly member that was there in front of I don't remember exactly who

1:19.2

it was a politician a legislator so I'm right legislator and they were like, you know, you should really cover this.

1:25.9

And like I said, we've seen kind of a handful of incidents around the country.

1:30.0

There was the hair salon owner in Texas. There have been church pastors who have defied the orders. We're seeing different

1:39.5

people push back and we're seeing a lot of businesses secretly staying open because of the

1:45.0

lockdowns now I'm in California our lockdown policy started sooner than anybody

1:50.0

else and has been stricter almost than anybody else outside of New York.

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