A Minnesota bar owner decided to open despite coronavirus restrictions in the state because “our staff needed money” and she couldn’t get through another three-month shutdown.
Now, Lisa Monet Zarza, the owner of Alibi Drinkery in Minnesota, according to EpochTimes, lost her business, liquor, and food service licenses, and is facing up to $350,000 in fines for violating a governor’s executive order. But the Minnesota Attorney General’s lawsuit doesn’t list any actual harm caused by her actions.
“I didn’t break the law; I defied the executive order,” Zarza told The Epoch Times.
Zarza added that she “knew what was at stake” when she decided to defy an indoor dining ban and now the Minnesota bar is being sued by the state.
According to the Epoch Times, the lawsuit was filed in Minnesota District Court in Dakota County. It alleges that Lionheart LLC, doing business as Alibi Drinkery of Lakeville, Minnesota, opened for business illegally from Dec. 16–30, 2020.
At that time, Gov. Tim Walz issued an executive order, ordering bars, restaurants, and other businesses to close as the COVID-19 virus starts to spread.
Zarza said Alibi Drinkery never reported an issue and was never connected to any COVID cases.
“We closed exactly how they said,” she said.
Zarza described Alibi Drinkery as a “hometown bar” in Lakeville, a community in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. She said she was active in the Lakeville business scene serving on various boards and with the Chamber of Commerce. Alibi Drinkery sponsored sports teams and hosted parties and community events.
“We were embedded in the community,” Zarza said.
Zarza said she started in the restaurant business as a 20-year-old. She loves the work, and it has become the only life she has ever really known.
“I don’t drink, and I don’t do drugs; I run restaurants,” she quipped during a telephone interview.
Zarza further explained that “we decided to reopen after we’ve been shut down almost a month following a two-and-a-half month shutdown in the spring.”
Zarza explained that she decided to reopen before Christmas because “unemployment was not doing it for any of our staff members.”
“We also did it because it’s our right as a business owner to open and it was an unconstitutional executive order by our governor that singled restaurant industries out and shut us down with little to no data showing that we were the superspreaders that they were claiming,” she added.
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Source: TheEpochTimes
Time for a REAL insurrection!!!!