Posted on 04/16/2020 11:44:29 AM PDT by Magnatron
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer lashed out at the freedom protesters who surrounded the capitol on Wednesday, telling reporters they were “endangering people’s lives.”
Breitbart News reported live from the scene, which featured hundreds of people on the capitol lawn and thousands more in their cars, honking horns, blasting patriotic music, and waving American flags.
Whitmer, whom Joe Biden has said is on his short list for the vice presidential nomination, denounced the protesters, who were calling on her to rescind the onerous restrictions she had placed on the state’s citizens and let them go back to work.
“We know that this demonstration is going to come at a cost to people’s health,” Whitmer told reporters.
“We know that when people gather that way without masks, they were within close proximity, they were touching one another, that that’s how COVID-19 spreads,” she said.
She went on to blame the protesters for further restrictions she may impose in the future.
“So the sad irony here is that the protest is that they don’t like being in this stay home order,” she said, “and they may have just created the need to lengthen it.”
She said she wouldn’t predict that “a certain percentage” of protesters would fall ill, “but I know that, just by congregating, they’ve made that a real possibility, that they’ve endangered other people’s lives.”
Breitbart News observed many protesters wearing masks and maintaining social distances, but witnessed no handshakes or other forms of physical contact.
A spokeswoman for the Michigan Conservative Coalition said she was overwhelmed by the response.
Breitbart News learned a formal recall effort is in the works.
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Full-figured, Half-witted.
Cough... ceucescu....cough
There are provisions in state law to recall the Governor. Get it started.
Pearl Clutch much?
Someone is endangering lives.
With an IQ of 38 D!
There was a recall petition posted just recently
easier on the eyes too... LOL
Yeah, that’s going to become the standard response from here on out.
Go and protest anyway.
They are using language on purpose.
Trying to set up the language to pull out cops and such on these people.
They want cwii to start, no question. Its their last ditch effort here people.
Totalitarian Leftist Whitmer is of course projecting.
Whitless needs to experience a storm the Bastille moment. The people are going to have to rise up and take their states back from the tyrants.
Weren’t the people in their own cars?
Unless it’s some life other than hers being endangered, I find it hard to be concerned.
WOW, her picture is right next to Cuomo’s in the dictionary under the definition for total obnoxious jerk.
How voters elect these people is beyond me. If it keeps up, I’ll need to move to a Bright Red state. These Leftists are morons.
We??? We??? Stop hiding behind "we"...you gutless coward.
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