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Gretchen Whitmer Defunds Police: Cuts $115 Million from State Cops, Replaces Portion with Fed Cash
Breitbart ^ | July 21 2020 | KYLE OLSON

Posted on 07/23/2020 5:03:03 AM PDT by knighthawk

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-155 on Wednesday, which cut $115.07 million from the Michigan State Police budget.

Talk radio host Steve Gruber reported Whitmer ordered the cut, along with others, including $392.67 million being slashed from the Department of Corrections and $36.46 million from the Department of Health and Human Services.

The cut to the State Police equals roughly one-quarter of the agency’s funding, according to Gruber.

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KEYWORDS: defundspolice; gretchenwhitmer; michigan
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1 posted on 07/23/2020 5:03:03 AM PDT by knighthawk
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The cut to the State Police equals roughly one-quarter of the agency’s funding, according to Gruber.

She should simply tell the SP what they should stop doing.

2 posted on 07/23/2020 5:08:08 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: knighthawk

YOU MICHIGANERS PUT THIS LIBERAL FOOL IN OFFICE, NOW LIVE WITH IT.


3 posted on 07/23/2020 5:08:34 AM PDT by chopperk
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When someone shoots these POS politicians I hope the response from the police is we would like to help but we have no one available for a month or two. Leave your name and number and we will call back when we reach your place in line. For more immediate help the number for the crime social justice office is ......... thanks for reaching out and good day. Bye.


4 posted on 07/23/2020 5:17:37 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: chopperk

What about the 40 percent or so who didn’t?
F them too?


5 posted on 07/23/2020 5:17:48 AM PDT by EEGator
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Yes indeed. Obviously in a state that swings, everyone wanted Governor Karen.

My hope on Frau Witchmer is that she gets decidedly tossed out of office, and leaves Michigan never to return, like Granholm. She can go be someone else’s issue.


6 posted on 07/23/2020 5:24:45 AM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: knighthawk

Stop her, you feckless, Republican legislature! We DO NOT WANT THIS.


7 posted on 07/23/2020 5:25:03 AM PDT by madison10
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To: knighthawk

Has she dismissed her security detail yet?


8 posted on 07/23/2020 6:04:00 AM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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To: knighthawk

How does a governor reallocate funds like this? Doesn’t the legislature dictate spending and not a dictator governor?


9 posted on 07/23/2020 6:06:11 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Mouton

The shooting needs to start sooner rather than later.


10 posted on 07/23/2020 6:13:41 AM PDT by crz
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To: ferret_airlift

Yes. And the Michigan republicans have to put up a candidate that has more appeal than a boiled carrot


11 posted on 07/23/2020 6:21:23 AM PDT by Rodm
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And the Michigan republicans have to put up a candidate that has more appeal than a boiled carrot

Do state parties ever do that? Certainly not in New York.

12 posted on 07/23/2020 6:24:54 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: knighthawk

So they should not have enough money to enforce her orders.


13 posted on 07/23/2020 6:55:15 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: knighthawk

Where is the state legislatures?
We do not have dictators.


14 posted on 07/23/2020 10:08:37 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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"My hope on Frau Witchmer is that she gets decidedly tossed out of office, and leaves Michigan never to return, like Granholm."

Hopefully she'll flee the state much sooner. Granholm in california could probably use a new footstool.


15 posted on 07/23/2020 11:25:55 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: CodeToad

Yes. And there may be limits already set by the state’s constitution. Otherwise she could take the entire police budget and create a department of Kumbaya and unicorn droppings.


16 posted on 07/23/2020 11:53:49 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Free the TVs!)
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To: knighthawk

And the state legislature is doing what exactly while all this is going on?


17 posted on 07/23/2020 11:56:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: minnesota_bound

NYS’s passed a bill telling Cuomo he could do anything he wanted, fine by them.


18 posted on 07/23/2020 11:57:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: madison10

MI House and Senate are strangely quiet, almost as if they want this to happen. There’s no longer an emergency in MI, since the death rate is insignificant. Are they going to let her just declare an emergency and govern by fiat from now on?


19 posted on 07/23/2020 6:09:20 PM PDT by MIDad23
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I do not know...it is weird. Does the legislature think we all AGREE with her and her power grab?

What are they waiting for? More money? The more Covid, the more Fed $$$. Are they waiting for a piece of that pie? Or are they afraid that if they counter her she will call in the antifa and BLM types?


20 posted on 07/23/2020 6:27:54 PM PDT by madison10
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