Posted on 05/20/2020 2:01:54 PM PDT by Libloather
DETROIT (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is facing an increasingly mainstream backlash against her stay-at-home orders, with a growing number of local officials and business leaders arguing the restrictions have outlived their usefulness.
Some Democratic lawmakers in Michigan have pointed to armed demonstrators at a series of high-profile protests at the state Capitol in Lansing in recent weeks as evidence that most of those who opposed her measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus were politically motivated right-wing activists.
But despite Whitmer’s move this week to loosen rules in the state’s northern regions, criticism now is mounting from senior law enforcement officials and establishment business figures that the restrictions are unenforceable. Others complain her latest moves were overdue in reviving a shattered economy.
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Even Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a Whitmer ally, said on Monday that data showed the hard-hit city was ready under her guidelines for a broader re-opening of businesses.
Whitmer’s stay-at-home order had “no justification for continuing,” the Detroit News said in an editorial on Tuesday, noting that some hospitals had been laying off staff because occupancy was so low.
“Michigan is more at risk of seeing its health care system collapse for want of patients than from a tsunami of critically ill virus victims,” the newspaper said.
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Do it.
“Some Democratic lawmakers in Michigan have pointed to armed demonstrators...”
Just a little gentle reminder for frau Whitmer.
Michigan residents are pissed at her, but if she runs for re-election in 2022, she’ll win. The left has ruined nearly all of this country.
Whitmer’s a cross between a Nazi and a Witch isn’t she?
...”politically motivated right-wing activists.”
These people are motivated by hunger and avoiding bankruptcy.
No, with the Democrats hating her, she won’t win. These Democrat Governors are under suicidal orders from the DNC to keep the lockdown going even at the expense of their own States. Democrats are turning against them
Michiganders have a chance to register their frustrations on November 3 by voting for Donald J. Trump, John James for Senate and for all GOP candidates for the US House of Representatives and the Michigan House of Representatives, as well as all other GOP candidates for statewide, county, city, village and township offices.
It is the CPUSA (I refuse to say Democratic Party anymore) at war against anyone who works, against the kulaks. Michigan, watch your Secretary of State carefully during the next gubernatorial election, and what orders were given by this Bolshevik B!+(h.
“Michigan residents are pissed at her, but if she runs for re-election in 2022, she’ll win.”
That’s prescient, Nostradamus. So, which driver will win the Toyota 500 at Darlington tonight? And while you’re at it, give us poor FReepers the winning loto numbers, Swami.
Let her bask and baste in that authority for a little longer. Still a bit more ripening before the plunge.
I am waiting for someoneto blame herfor the floods.
Both dams were reported to be weak. True, therains were heavy, but state authorities should have policies to open the sluices so the dams would remainintact.
Here in the Philippines,when we have heavy rains, usually authorities open the sluices of the irrigation dams to prevent the water from topping them.this leads to minor flooding but less dangerous then if you let the dam overtop and collapse.
She decreed that the people who take care of our dams were ‘non-essential”. Since then, we have had at least two dams break. I am certain that she will be remembered by the voters.
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