Do as I say...
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Spokesman Bobby Leddy says Whitmer “did not go on spring break” and went to “assist her elderly father, who is battling a chronic illness.”
I wonder what kind of assistance her father needed that could not be rendered either by personnel in the state, or via a phone call.
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@george-k said in Do as I say...:
@jolly said in Do as I say...:
He could be terminal and she just wanted to see him.
That was my thought as well. So, shall we talk about all the nursing home patients in Michigan who died of COVID - alone?
And that's what I was hinting at...
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@jolly said in Do as I say...:
https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/whitmer-visited-elderly-father-in-florida-during-pandemic/
Gets better. She flew on a private jet.
Had Whitmer booked a round trip flight from Lansing to West Palm Beach through a private charter company, it would likely have cost her $10,000 to $20,000, or a whopping $40,000 for the actual jet she took, according to private jet websites. The latter is more than 25 percent of the governor’s salary — before taxes.
It is unclear whether Whitmer reimbursed the company – Air Eagle – which manages the aircraft owned by the businessmen. And, if so, at what price and from which bank account?
So some super-duper rich guys, the ones that people of Gretch’s ilk are always saying don’t pay enough in taxes and are used as a bogey man pinata, were guilted into letting her use their fancy jet to go to Florida for FOUR DAYS. I’m sure that the fact that they have business with the State of Michigan and she happens to be the Governor is a happy coincidence and there could never be any quid pro quo.
Who paid?
A nonprofit corporation paid most of the $27,521 cost of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's contentious private plane trip to visit her father, her office said Friday.
Whitmer used her personal funds to pay the $855 cost of her seat, according to a report Whitmer's office released. That was calculated as the comparable cost of a first-class ticket, spokeswoman Tiffany Brown told the Free Press.
The Associated Press had reported that the Gulfstream 280 business jet was registered to Air Eagle, whose agent is John Nicholson, executive vice president of Detroit-based PVS Chemicals, according to state records. The Moroun family, which owns the Ambassador Bridge, said it is a partner in Air Eagle. The Detroit News and Crain's Detroit Business reported that the Cotton family, which sold Meridian Health in 2018, also has a stake.
"Given the extraordinary and ongoing threats to the life and safety of the governor and her family, we do not generally comment on the governor's personal schedule," Whitmer Chief of Staff JoAnne Huls said in a memo to Whitmer's team that was first reported by Michigan Information & Research Service Inc. and released to the news media.
"However, I fully expect Republican party officials will continue to make political attacks against the governor and her family, so I wanted you to have the facts."
Whitmer flew out of Lansing on Friday, March 12, and returned on Monday, March 15, Huls said in the memo.
The nonprofit:
Michigan Transition 2019 was incorporated in 2018 under Section 501c4 of the Internal Revenue Code, state records show. Such "social welfare" nonprofit funds are commonly used by state and local officeholders but have been the source of past controversies, notably for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and for former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, whose NERD (New Energy to Reinvent and Diversify) Fund was the subject of criticism for not disclosing its corporate donors and for paying the salary of a top Snyder aide, Richard Baird.
Michigan Transition 2019 was initially set up to pay expenses related to Whitmer's inauguration but has since been used for other officeholder expenses, such as consulting, records show.
It was not immediately clear why the cost of the plane and Whitmer's $855 contribution were listed as May expenditures and revenues for the fund, rather than being recorded in March, when the plane was hired.
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Whitmer and a large group of friends, including her appointed chief operations officer, Tricia Foster, visited the Landshark in East Lansing, violating her restaurant orders in the process, according to a photo one of the attendees posted on Facebook.
The group shot of 13 individuals appeared to violate the governor’s restaurant capacity order issued May 15 on “gathering limitations for entertainment establishments, recreational establishments, and food service establishments”:
b. Gatherings are prohibited at food service establishments, whether indoor or outdoor, unless:
Consumption of food or beverages is permitted only in a designated dining area where patrons are seated, groups of patrons are separated by at least 6 feet, no more than 6 patrons are seated together (at a table, booth, or group of fixed seats), and groups of patrons do not intermingle
The governor responded.
I count 13 people at the two tables.
"Pushed together," my ass.
