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Tech company CEO says Biden’s COVID handling prompted her move to Florida: ‘It was catastrophic’

September 9, 2023 | | Print Article

Wendy Kinney, the CEO of Christian-based financial tech company, Revere Payments, has relocated her company to Florida from Nevada, blaming President Biden’s COVID policies for it.

(Video Credit: Fox Business)

Over three years after the pandemic first became an issue in Nevada, it is still affecting the Silver State. And now Biden is threatening to reimpose mask mandates etc., heavily impacting children and businesses. Kinney puts her children first and says after a lot of prayer made the decision to relocate from Las Vegas, Nevada to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, in search of real “freedom.”

The anti-business economic policies and bureaucratic red tape of Biden’s pandemic mandates also harmed the business and it only made sense to relocate to a place where she could freely practice her faith and grow her company.

“When it came to the brand of Revere, Revere is really centered around freedom, and… when the decision came, where would we relocate or locate the headquarters for Revere, it seemed the obvious choice for the freedom brand was the freedom state of Florida,” Kinney told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“So for us, it came through prayer and contemplation, and really the brand driving along with the Lord driving where we’re going to go,” the unabashed conservative added.

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The announcement of the move for the payment processing company came at the beginning of September.

“This move will result in the creation of 100 new job opportunities within the next three years,” the press release stated.

In the wake of the pandemic, Florida saw the largest influx of residents in the nation in 2022. The population in the state jumped two percent. The national average was 0.4 percent between July 2021 and July 2022.

Other states that saw a surge in population included Arizona, Idaho, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

States that saw a marked drop in population included California, Illinois, and New York. Those states also imposed the highest tax burdens on their residents. Over 343,000 fled California but New York won the prize with a 0.9 percent drop.

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Kinney puts the blame on Biden’s restrictive COVID-related policies which were detrimental to both children and businesses.

“Recent data from federal standardized test scores indicated back in June that students nationwide are still battling the effects of school closures — another restrictive COVID-related stance that has had a startling effect on the country’s most vulnerable,” Fox Business reported.

“Scores by the National Center for Education Statistics — also known as the Nation’s Report Card — indicated math scores have reached their lowest rate since 1990 while reading scores dipped to the lowest since 2004, continuing the downward trend since the pandemic began in 2020,” the media outlet continued.

Kinney views the results of leftist pandemic policies as nothing short of “catastrophic.”

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“There’s no question when you think about the pandemic and the residual and the collateral damage of it, whether it be to businesses, employees, people losing their jobs, but really to children, right down to children not being able to learn appropriately and efficiently, especially in the public school systems where they were really shut down for a long period of time, where some of those kids in that system, that was their best meal of the day, that was their warm hug,” Kinney asserted.

“That was their welcome. That was such a critical part of their well-being, and to take such an extreme approach, which some of these states did, I think it was catastrophic,” she declared.

Recently there have been indications that Biden might bring back mask mandates despite declaring the pandemic over back in 2022. A new variant has emerged with symptoms similar to the common cold causing leftists to start lobbying for masks once more.

Kinney was asked by Fox News Digital in an interview if she thought the Biden administration would once again impose COVID policies that stifle business.

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“Could the Biden administration do something to overcome the hurdles that we face? Could they? Yes. Will they? No,” Kinney replied. “My concern at this point, because of some of the chatter you hear, is the new variant of COVID and more restrictive policies. If you look at Rutgers, they’re looking at a jab and masking. You’re hearing all kinds of whispers now that more masking is coming.”

“The Biden administration recently has bought a lot of PPE equipment, so there’s more coming, and I hope I’m wrong. I hope some of the people who are speaking out about this are wrong, but the real concern is what’s going to happen now with 2024 approaching a new variant that’s going to be used to possibly restrict people in ways that we’ve literally never seen,” she asserted.

Kinney firmly believes the American people will not “tolerate” any more restrictions.

“I think Americans will not allow their freedoms to be stolen again,” she stated. “The American people aren’t going to stand for it anymore. If you just look around an airport, or you go anywhere, you see 95-plus percent, if not more, of the people are not wearing masks, and then you see the few scattering of people here and there who have their children masked up, or they’re masked up even to this day.”

“But I think trying to put the American people in a position where they’re locked down again… I just think that would be really catastrophic,” Kinney concluded. “I don’t think they’re going to tolerate it.”

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