Once again Gretchen Wilson is demonstrating why she is the worst governor in the United States. As small businesses are trying to figure out if they could survive through the month of April, they now have to figure out the best way to go out of business. And their employees are left to fend for themselves, trying to figure out how they are going to support their families. Many of the jobs that closed down under Whitmer’s orders are never coming back.
She allows people to drive to Home Depot to buy a hammer but the same shopper cannot buy seeds or plants at the store they are already at. There have been daily protests and a pilot wrote with his plane in the sky, a giant F and U with an arrow pointing towards the governor’s mansion. She has destroyed all chances she had of becoming Joe Biden’s running mate. She would now be a liability in a state Biden cannot afford to lose.
Both houses of the legislature had voted not to extend the state of emergency and to allow the state’s economy to reopen. Whitmer then decided she was elected dictator as she chose to ignore the legislature and she initiated a power grab. She is also opposed by the state’s sheriffs and the citizens themselves. Hopefully it will begin to affect the voting for the state’s Senate seat and the House seats.
The emergency declaration gives Whitmer additional powers to issue executive orders during an emergency. She claimed she had the emergency authority regardless of what state lawmakers did.
In a rejection of the governor, the state House and Senate adopted resolutions Thursday to legally challenge her authority and also approved a bill to allow some of her mandates but not her stay-at-home order, which expires May 16.
No lawsuit had been filed as of Thursday night, MLive reported.
Whitmer said she planned to veto the bill and won’t sign any bills that “that constrain her ability to protect the people of Michigan from this deadly virus in a timely manner,” her office said, according to The Detroit News.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of demonstrators, some armed with rifles, descended on the state Capitol building in Lansing to voice frustration over the stay-at-home order, which mandates temporary business closures and that residents remain home.
Many made it inside the building and stood shoulder-to-shoulder, calling for a return to normal daily life. Opponents accuse Whitmer of overstepping her authority by prohibiting sales of items like garden supplies and banning most travel between homes and certain activities.