Posted on 04/25/2020 4:05:14 AM PDT by Libloather
The Republican-led Michigan legislature on Friday approved measures to limit Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive authority to declare a state of emergency and to create a panel to investigate the state’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After roughly an hour of passionate debate, the Michigan Senate voted 22-15 along partisan lines to pass Senate Bills 857 and 858, which, respectively, would repeal the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945 and limit the number of days the governor can unilaterally declare a state of emergency under a separate law from 28 days to 14.
Whitmer’s office ahead of Friday’s session said she’d veto the bills if they reached her desk, and reiterated that stance during a morning news briefing: “The powers of the executive office are incredibly important, especially in times of crisis where lives are on the line.”
She said she found it “odd” the legislature was continuing to congregate and go against the spirit of the stay-at-home order, which she extended through May 15, albeit with several revisions on allowed activity.
“I think that they should be focused on making sure that people who’ve lost their jobs have access to health care if they’re doing anything together,” she said. “I think that they should be focusing on paid sick leave, if they are determined to congregate in Lansing."
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She’d could make a fashion statement on the Red Carpet in her new goose down-on-hot tar blazer. However, maybe that wouldn’t be ‘formal’ enough.
You Michiganders have a SHE NAZI for a Governor....and she OVES her CONTROL OVER ALL OF YOU!! You will NOT be able to get rid of her.
Yet there she is with, according to FoxNews, a 62% job approval rating by the citizens of Michigan.
People are dying out there.
Let’s keep abortion clinics open to kill more babies.
Isn’t the legislature the same bunch that allowed themselves to be exempted from responding to FOIA requests?
If so, then SSDD.
Same ****, Different Dems.
Whitmer Sent Unpleasant Text Messages To Dem Lawmaker Who Thanked Trump for Her Coronavirus Recovery
#impeach-the-weach
And President Hillary Clinton carried Michigan’s EVs winning by polled 15 point edge.
Why would we ever believe or even mention a poll for a progressive Democrat ever again after 2016?
Any poll in Michigan before Memorial Day is worthless seeing half the state is in Western FL until May.
With her perverse actions, and unknown to her, she is helping MI to vote Donald Trump in 2020.
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