[Federalist] A spokesman for Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer confirmed in April that Whitmer flew to Florida while instructing Michiganders to stay home while under COVID-19 lockdown orders. Now, a new report indicates Whitmer contacted wealthy Detroit businessmen to lend a private plane.
Spokesman Bobby Leddy said the governor traveled on three occasions to Florida to visit her elderly father. The governor’s office claimed taxpayer money was not used for travel. Deadline Detroit reports Whitmer avoided a private plane fee in the range of $10,000 to $20,000 by asking billionaires to provide a charter. The jet she took would have allegedly ran [poor grammar] her a fee of $40,000, an estimated 25 percent of Whitmer’s salary before taxes.
"We wondered why she reached out to us instead of booking a private charter," one of the owners of the plane said. "You can’t tell a governor no. Who needs that kind of trouble?"
The governor was asked about the report Thursday and declined to provide information as to whether she reimbursed the Detroit businessmen.
"I’ve said everything I’m going to say about my trip to check on my father," she told a reporter from WWTV. "I’ve got nothing to add. We don’t discuss my travel. I have received an incredible number of death threats over the last year and a half. There are a lot of reasons we don’t discuss how I travel and when I travel."
While Whitmer released vaccine benchmarks and encouraged residents to get shots, she was not vaccinated upon traveling to Florida for four days. The jet she flew on, a Gulfstream G-280 twin, took her from Lansing, Michigan to West Palm Beach, Florida. Two weeks after getting back from her trip, Whitmer made a point to tell Michiganders to stay home.
"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says a factor in Michigan’s surging COVID-19 cases is fewer people were infected earlier in the pandemic than in other states. She also is concerned about spring break travel, particularly to Florida," the Associated Press reported on April 3.
Then, appearing on MSNBC’s "Meet the Press" on April 19, Whitmer said people should avoid travel.
"Michigan and Florida are not next to each other," she said. "But this is the time of the year that snowbirds come home from Florida, where people are going on spring break, and all of these things can contribute to spread. We’re imploring people to take this seriously, mask up, get tested. If you’ve been around someone who’s positive, stay home."
Whitmer’s administration refuses to provide details of her Florida trip due to "ongoing security concerns." Jason Roe, executive director of the Michigan GOP, said in a statement that Whitmer "has been the most opaque governor in Michigan history."
"Governor Whitmer lied about her trip to Florida and is compounding her lies by refusing to disclose the cost of the private plane she used, if she paid for her personal trip, and what the fair market value of that payment was," Roe said.
Whitmer’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
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Maaaaayyybbeee she was planning to report it as "Campaign Contributions"?
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Bonus:
The Gulfstream G-280 used for her secret trips (there were more than one), is made in Israel by Israel Aerospace Industries under contract to Gulfstream.
Be sure to let Rep. Rashida Tlaib know about this.
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Why was she traveling to see her father (yes, I know he was ailing)? Other Michiganers were ordered to stay home. If a parent or relative were sick, they could not visit - even inside Michigan.
Talk about tone deaf.
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"We wondered why she reached out to us instead of booking a private charter," one of the owners of the plane said. "You can’t tell a governor no. Who needs that kind of trouble?"
What country is this?
Does anyone still believe that we have rule of law in the USSA?
[HotAir] I’m trying to decide how seriously this should be taken. On the one hand, I’m sure Trumpers’ irritation is sincere. Elise Stefanik has a more liberal voting record than Cheney and has been especially questionable on immigration, populism’s pet issue. She used to work for George W. Bush, was mentored by Paul Ryan, and was iffy about Trump until she realized at some point during his first term that the base’s infatuation with him wasn’t about to blow over, at which point she transformed into a pretend MAGA enthusiast. True populists have no reason to trust her. If the mood in the party were to shift tomorrow, Stefanik would shift with it.
I think of her as a sort of Republican Kirsten Gillibrand, another ambitious politician who started in upstate New York. Gillibrand was a moderate representing a centrist district when she was in the House; she supported border enforcement and gun rights. As soon as she was appointed to the Senate and realized she’d need to face a much more liberal statewide electorate in the future, she became a staunch left-winger. Stefanik made the same move, turning from establishmentarian to Trumpist once she realized that the constituency to which she’d need to pander to keep getting reelected had shifted and wasn’t shifting back.
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Concern trolling from HotAir. Gee, whodathunkit?
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If the mood in the party were to shift tomorrow, Stefanik would shift with it.
I know politicians are supposed to have ironclad, rock-solid principles, but isn't 'shifting with it' representing your constituents? The Athenian way?
On the other hand, republic-representatives are supposed to lead their constituents, like 1940's FDR?
I'm so confused.
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#1 Concern trolling from HotAir. Gee, whodathunkit?
It's that Eeyore bitch Allahpundit. I don't read his articles because I know from the title where it's gonna go. Might as well be Bill Kristol
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Well, she is a Northeast liberal; would you guys fully trust a Republican congresscritter from Mass.? The Globe bought off (so to speak) then Rep. Peter Torkildsen (R-MA; Danvers / North Shore) back in 1995; Tom Oliphant wrote a slobbering editorial praising him, and Torkie went along with some lib. preferred legislation. Tork wound up being a one-termer.
BLUF:
[Red State] A RedState reported weeks ago, there are serious issues surrounding millions of dollars in stock owned by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. That stock is in Proterra, an electric vehicle company that is being actively promoted by the Biden administration. Further, Granholm being the Secretary of Energy means she gets to make regulations that can directly enrich herself.
Now, the story has gotten worse as Granholm appears to have reneged completely on her pledge to sell her stock and leave the board of the company in question.
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Granhole was a "democrat rising star" to the extent that lefties yammered about trying to find some way to make her Canadian hide eligible to run for prexident. Somehow, an "energy secretary" who has no background in the energy industries is just not very convincing.
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If a scandal falls on a Democrat and nobody hears of it is it still a scandal?
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That there is a Bidet Administration is the major scandal. That we all know it was installed not elected and just go along is the scandal, that the intelligence and law enforcement elements of the US government obey this coup is a scandal, that we are seeing every aspect of out federal government weaponized and slowly turning into tyrants and enemies of the people is a scandal....next to these things Jojo and the Bidet crime family grifting is petty cash....
[Washington Examiner] Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, where a Republican-backed audit of the 2020 election is underway, said they cannot give the audit team access to county router information that was subpoenaed by the state Senate.
In a Monday letter sent to Ken Bennett, a former Republican secretary of state in Arizona who is serving as the Republican-led state Senate’s audit liaison, Deputy County Attorney Joseph La Rue said the county "cannot at this time provide the virtual images of routers" to be examined by auditors, citing "a significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies."
"We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it," La Rue said in the letter. "But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk. We also learned that if criminal elements or others gained access to this data, it might compromise county and federal law enforcement efforts and put the lives of law enforcement personnel at risk."
Bennett said in an interview with Just the News that the Senate’s subpoena had requested "access or control of all routers and tabulators ... used in connection with the administration of the 2020 election," along with "the public IP of the [routers]."
"I don't know why the routers in a tabulation and election center have anything to do with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office or numerous federal agencies," Bennett said, adding that "the sheriff's department and the Maricopa County tabulation and election center aren't even in the same building."
County spokesman Fields Moseley told the Washington Examiner that county IT professionals made the determination that information contained in the routers "can be used as blueprints to intercept sensitive county data" across more than 50 different departments.
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'Real criminal activity' shrouded by the threat of 'imagined criminal activity'. Ok, I got it.
No mention made of potential damage to the ozone layer, environment, or to the children. The dem legal team must be holding those back for later use as necessary.
Portland mayor @tedwheeler wrote that he condemns anti-Asian violence happening in the country. What he didn't address is the mob beatings of Asian-Americans committed in his own community by #Antifa, a group he’s been reluctant to acknowledge. https://t.co/Z8A2RsKKRA
[Epoch Times] Losing Texas Candidate Issues Warning: 2022 ’Could Be Major Setback’ for Democrats
During the special election, two Republicans—and no Democrats—advanced in the runoff as the top two vote-getters in the race for Texas’s 6th Congressional District, after no one in the 23-candidate field won an outright majority of votes on May 1.
Republicans Susan Wright, wife of the late Rep. Ron Wright, finished with 19 percent of the vote, while Jake Ellzey garnered 14 percent. Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez finished third with 13 percent and conceded on May 2. I heard turnout was pretty high - 23% of the 2020 general election. "On Saturday, Republican candidates got 62 percent of the vote to 38 percent for Democrats (R+25). All the things I thought would motivate Democrats, such as the attempted violent overthrow of a legitimate election result, along with Snowmaggedeon ... failed to get our voters out," Sanchez wrote on Monday after conceding defeat. If you can't win with fake news and bad weather, what are you gonna do?
"I’m sounding the alarm bell: If Democrats don’t organize and prepare, 2022 could be a major setback to our gains of recent years," she said.
The fact that no Democrats advanced can also be seen as a blow to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) quest to keep her majority after 2022. Generally, the party of the president loses seats during midterm elections, and in 2018, Democrats were able to reclaim the House majority after Trump’s 2016 victory.
The House, meanwhile, is currently split at 218 Democrats to 212 Republicans with five vacancies, which means that Pelosi can only lose two votes to pass legislation. If there is a tie in the House, the bill won’t pass. Unless a couple of Pubs committed suicide.
During an interview last week, however, Pelosi struck an optimistic tone and asserted that Democrats would prevail during the midterms. The reason why, she said, is because of recent Biden adjusted census results.
"I feel very confident that the Democrats will hold the majority after the next election," she told CBS News in late April. "I think that we’re—for all the huffing and puffing the Republicans are doing, these numbers were not as good for them as they had hoped. They wanted three in Texas, two in Florida, and the rest." Showing off her Joe-speech.
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During an interview last week, however, Pelosi struck an optimistic tone and asserted that Democrats would prevail during the midterms. The reason why, she said, is because of recent Biden adjusted census results.
3 districts (instead of 6 before the Biden Admin crooked census manipulation) were added to red states, cancelling the Dems HoR margin. Add the late TX Rep. Ron Wright seat for Republicans and the Reps have a +1 majority in the HoR.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Federalist] A spokesman for Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer confirmed in April that Whitmer flew to Florida while instructing Michiganders to stay home while under COVID-19 lockdown orders. Now, a new report indicates Whitmer contacted wealthy Detroit businessmen to lend a private plane.
A few local clouds and high winds. Nothing more. 
[Washington Examiner] Officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, where a Republican-backed audit of the 2020 election is underway, said they cannot give the audit team access to county router information that was subpoenaed by the state Senate.
"On Saturday, Republican candidates got 62 percent of the vote to 38 percent for Democrats (R+25). All the things I thought would motivate Democrats, such as the attempted violent overthrow of a legitimate election result, along with Snowmaggedeon ... failed to get our voters out," Sanchez wrote on Monday after conceding defeat.
