From FOX News:
Michigan Gov. Whitmer caught in Memorial Day lockdown controversy over husband’s reported boat request
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faced backlash from Republican lawmakers after a reported request from her husband to get the family’s boat out on the water before Memorial Day weekend — far from their home in Lansing.
In Facebook posts no longer visible to the public, NorthShore Dock LLC and its owner, Tad Dowker, focused on what Dowker said was a request last week by Whitmer’s husband, Marc Mallory. The posts caught the attention of Republican state lawmakers, who said the governor’s family may not have wanted to follow the guidance she’s issued for the rest of the state.
“This morning, I was out working when the office called me, there was a gentleman on hold who wanted his boat in the water before the weekend,” Dowker posted, The Detroit News reported. “Being Memorial weekend and the fact that we started working three weeks late means there is no chance this is going to happen.”
He continued, “Our office personnel had explained this to the man and he replied, ‘I am the husband to the governor, will this make a difference?'” The docking company later noted that Mallory respectfully accepted that the accommodation would not be possible.
So the governor’s husband had the audacity to pull the “do you know who I am” on people who opened late because of his wife’s bullshit lockdown tyranny.
That’s balls.
Whitmer locked the state down until June 2and and rumor is she’s going to push that back again, but her husband can order people to break out his boat from storage.
The double standard is not surprising but the gall of it is.
I swear there must be a competition among Democratic leaders to see who is the biggest piece of shit.
I suspect the prize is Biden’s VP slot. It should be a hemp necktie.
“You’re the governor’s husband? Why yes, that will make a difference! We can have your boat ready in… EIGHT WEEKS!”
First off, I am NOT a fan of Mrs. Whitmer. Didn’t vote for her, will not vote in her favor should she seek re election.
I also think that she has mishandled the lockdown in several manners, not terribly different from your own critique.
Having said all that, presently “The Lockdown” has evolved, with upstate being less restricted than they were just two weeks ago. In her favor (and, yes, I feel physical pain saying that out loud…), she is in some ways adapting her EOs to changing circumstances.
As I noted to the TDW-Mark II, it is as if she had been provided a large platter and silverware, and ushered to the Shit Buffet, and ordered, “Fill your plate!” She really did not have any affirmatively attractive options, simply a selection of bad ones. In my opinion, she has done better than Gov. Cuomo (as faint praise as THAT is!), but could have done better, earlier, by recognizing that the threat profile present in the rural areas of the state is different in important ways from the big city threat profile.
Although, being adaptive to THAT, might have led to Michigan having their own “Hamptons problem”, and so that could have been a fail, as well.
And, those observations are from a guy who would vote republican more enthusiastically, if the republicans weren’t so damned liberal, as well as recognizing that Michigan’s (d) Gov. Granholm got handed a fiscal stool sandwich when SHE took office.
The IL governor had construction workers from IL commute to WI to do work on one of his essential vacation homes while telling everyone else not to travel.