Posted on 09/09/2020 12:23:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer’s state-owned residence is getting $1.1 million in security upgrades, including an eight-foot-tall perimeter fence.
Whitmer has long questioned the effectiveness of physical barriers, but is asking Michigan taxpayers to foot the bill for a seven-figure project to keep out uninvited guests. The governor’s office confirmed the renovation on Friday, telling the Detroit News that the wall would help “ensure the safety, security, and protection of any sitting governor and the first family.” The renovation will include an electrified fence that Whitmer claims is necessary because of threats she has received.
Whitmer, a Biden surrogate, has attacked the idea of using barriers to prevent illegal immigration. She called President Donald Trump’s border wall “costly and ineffective” in February 2017, nearly a week after suggesting that money for the wall would be better spent elsewhere.
Whitmer previously complained about President Trump’s efforts to build the wall:
$40 BILLION for the wall. Think how many kids that would educate, how many roads, bridges and pipes it would fix. https://t.co/R9HaqLAsMZ
— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) January 25, 2017
I’m not the one to do it, of course. But, could you imagine the buzz if someone was electrocuted and photographed hanging over the fence?
Reminds me of the old joke: Afghan Jihadi gets 1 wish granted by Allah, but he has to allow an infidel 1 wish also. The Jihadi asks for “a mile-high wall surrounding his beautiful Afghanistan so that the land might remain pure and unstained.” Allah turns to a US Marine and asks what is his wish. The Marine says, “Fill it with water.”
Best laugh I’ve had all day.
Gestapo Gretchen moves to secure her Fuehrerbunker.
Lock her in there.
I wonder how many Dem Michigan voters even know of this.
“Whitmers Wall”
her own words
“costly and ineffective”, gretch
WHitler
LOL!!!
Why would they care? It’s “different” for their kind, dontcha know.
A $40B wall that protects 330M people comes out to about $130 per person protected.
Michigan is paying $1.1M for a wall that will protect her, her husband, and their five kids. So that's more than $150,000 per person protected.
So which one is the boondoggle again?
Can’t we just bus in hundreds of illegal aliens to tear down her wall and squat? I will gladly post hail to have an endless rotating supply
They ought to build the fence and just before finishing it, make sure she is in the residence and then forget to install a gate. She will never figure out how to get out.
What a hag.
“Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.”
Isaiah 3:12
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