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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dani Anguiano

Extremists see opportunity as fury over Covid rules erupts in rural California

Three members of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors stand up and begin to walk out of a December 2021 public meeting after members of the public (not pictured) become unruly.
Members of the Nevada county board of supervisors walk out of a December 2021 meeting, after the crowd became unruly. Photograph: Elias Funez/AP

Residents of a California county are mounting an aggressive campaign to oust officials who have supported Covid safety measures and vaccines, the latest example of a growing extremism in local politics fueled by the pandemic.

A group in Nevada county, a rural expanse of about 100,000 people in the Sierra Nevada, is seeking to recall five county supervisors, saying that contact tracing efforts and the promotion of lockdowns and vaccines violate “religious freedoms and individual liberty”.

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