Sam Amico
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has struggled to follow her own rules. So she changed them to accommodate … well, herself.
As OutKick’s Clint Lamb relayed earlier, Whitmer was caught hitting a dive bar over the weekend, gathering with friends and violating her very own COVID-19 restrictions.
This bit of information, of course, went viral and earned Whitmer a starring role on all the news-talk programs.
So late Monday, the Whitmer administration rescinded the rules that she herself broke.
Per The Associated Press: “A revised gatherings and face mask order, issued by the state health department, no longer includes the six-patrons-per-table provision, effective June 1. Whitmer had announced last week the planned easing of capacity restrictions on June 1 but had not specified if other changes would be coming in the new order, which was released as expected Monday.”
Whitmer told reporters her weekend excursion to East Lansing’s Landshark Bar & Grill was an “honest mistake” and that she did not purposely ignore Michigan’s gatherings and mask order, set forth on May 15.
She also made it fairly clear that Landshark would not face any sort of penalty for hosting Whitmer’s assembly of pals.
“Asked if the Landshark should be fined and, if not, if she would lift fines on other businesses, the governor said the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ‘specifically not gone forward and penalized businesses that are trying to do the right thing. It’s those that have flouted and put people’s safety at risk that are the most concerning,'” the AP reported.
In other words, the governor will determine which businesses will be fined and which will not. Sort of like how she decides who has to follow the rules in Michigan. The citizens do; she does not.
But now that Whitmer has been caught, she has kindly decided that everyone can have the freedom to live their lives.
And, oh yeah, this is actually Whitmer’s second infraction of her own guidelines.
“Last month, she was caught taking a trip to Florida after blaming travel to and from the state for the recent COVID outbreak in Michigan,” Lamb noted.
52% approval rating. Michigan deserves to rot.
I haven’t trusted any poll since 2016. That said, Michigan deserves to rot for electing her in the first place.
Astounding that she has that kind of approval rating. Yes, Michigan deserves what they get if they vote her in again.
There is no such thing as an “honest mistake” with these elites. They know exactly what they are doing and they reek of hypocrisy. Yet people keep electing them hoping their broken promises come true one day. Stupid people elect dishonest leaders.
Phony, phony, bitch.
Wow. After over a year of surges, variants, crushing the curve, wearing a mask says I love you, 2nd waves, vaccines that may not be safe until after January 20th, not traveling for spring break (the governor and senior staff exempted) keeping your “non-essential” business shuttered, lockdowns and social distancing, just like that the pandemic is over. Who would have thought that a social media post from a so-called “dive bar” would have led Michiganders out of the darkness.
For those continuing to support Governor Whitmer, I guess it’s a case of “Stupid is as stupid does”.
Those rules were put in place to save lives, slow the spread, prevent death. Whitmer said so herself. So many people are going to die now. Their blood is on your hands, Whitmer! Gavin Newsom is going to mean tweet you now.
Don’t you love how it’s always the Blue State and national Dem leaders who violate there own orders. Of course, if they hadn’t been the prison wardens (I won’t say Nazis) they set themselves up to be, they wouldn’t have continually exemplify their mind numbing hypocrisy.