‘No one gets to control me’: Ohio lawmaker refuses temperature check before entering Statehouse

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An Ohio lawmaker refused to have her temperature taken as she entered work at the Ohio State House on Tuesday.

“The reason I’ve had to put up with so much opposition over the last 4 years as a Representative is that NO ONE GETS TO CONTROL ME,” Republican state Rep. Candice Keller said on her Facebook page Wednesday. “I mean, NO ONE. I have civil rights and I have a right to privacy.”

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