Democrat vice-presidential nominee hopeful Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan has landed in hot water over trying to give a state contract to track coronavirus cases to her own campaign team. Former Nevada GOP Attorney General Adam Laxalt called her on the obvious conflict of interest in an interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” late last week. This will be another strike against her in the veep sweepstakes.
Laxalt commented, “Let’s see what happened here. So, this contract gets awarded to this Democratic group. And, politics and your official office are never supposed to overlap. And, Michigan is one of the only states in America where the governor and the legislature are exempted from [the] Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] requests. So, she doesn’t have to turn over these records. She’s already rejected them.”
“So,” Laxalt continued, “she’s basically said: ‘Look, it’s the pandemic and I’m just not going to be accountable to the people during a pandemic.’ Which, obviously, I think is outrageous.”
The Washington Post reported Whitmer stopped an almost $200,000 no-bid contract just a day after announcing the hiring of these consultants. She did so because she got caught funneling cash to her own campaign team. The contract cancellation was a feeble effort to cover up her actions.
“I think if the public understood what this means, they’d be incredibly outraged,” Laxalt said to Carlson. “It is now the time when she’s making these huge decisions on liberties and peoples’ lives and spending money that the public should have more of an insight into how she’s making these decisions, not less.”
This is another instance of a Democrat governor trying to use virus-related funds to feather the nest of their cronies and also to get their badly-run states out of self-inflicted budget shortfalls. Whitmer thought she could get away with it because of the intense media and political focus on the virus. But she didn’t count on Adam Laxalt.
This piece was written by PoliZette Staff on April 27, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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Something indeed, perhaps the biggest loss by a major party political candidate for President since Alf Landon…
IN MICHIGAN, PEOPLE COULD NOT BUY PAINT SUPPLIES WHEREVER THEY CHOSE?
WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND CAN’T SEE THE BENEFITS FOR FAMILIES OF USING QUARANTINE TIME REDOING A ROOM OR MORE TOGETHER?!
AND IT ADDS TO A HEALTHY SOCIETY!
OH YAH, A DEMOCRAT IN CHARGE……..
And Quid Pro Quo with Ukraine!!!!!
Since Truman, the modified the sign to read “The Buck Starts Here”.
Honest and democRAT should NEVER be used in the same sentence!
she ia LEFTY AND NOT SOCIALIST ANYMORE ..MORE LIKE CUBA AND COMMUNISM….AND MINNESOTA HAS PLACES WANTING SHARIA LAW …..WAKE UP BEFORE OUR COUNTRY IS HISTORY!!!!
So. she’s a democrat – what did you expect?
If there would be a civil war, I wonder what percentage of the military – if any – would side with the Democrats?
He may pick Stacey Abrams of GA as his running mate, the genius who thinks she won the governorship of that state. Wouldn’t that be something?!
No surprise here I will only be surprised if some of the frosh Congresswomen don’t do the same thing.
Whitmer needs to spend time in jail for violating peoples constitutional rights. She thinks she is a god, however she is only a god-damn fool.
Biden would have to WIN first and we all know that isn’t going to happen. TRUMP HOUSE SENATE IN 2020.
I’m from Northern Michigan originally. I know those people up there. Twhitmer doesn’t know the people she’s screwing with. Any one of several hundred people I know could pop her melon from over 3/4 mile away. And some of those people are starting to get very irritated with her.
Roll out the head-chopper-offers!!
I have never known a Democrat who doesn’t lie cheat or steal
Don’t forget all of the mooooooslims in that state too! Michigan is one of the states being over-run by them!
“The elites just loudly accuse someone else of the crimes they are busy committing.”
And THOSE people are called PSYCHOPATHS & SOCIOPATHS!!
Now your talking : )
He’d have to beat Trump first. No, actually he’d have to beat a charge of criminal sexual conduct first, now that I think about it.
As a woman in my 80’s I have watched & vetted many before voting. At one time about 40 Yrs. ago. I thought that women would make good politicians, BUT NO. after much observation they do not have the mental compatibility to do the job. It has nothing to do with education.
Woman by nature can really be nasty mean cats. Maybe this has come about because woman out number men 3 to 1 & are frustrated they have been allowed do anything they darn well please without any consequences.
Most of them have foul mouths make me ashamed of my sex.
DemoRat = Total Corruption….it really is that simple.
Oh, I don’t know. Whitmer may be the perfect running mate to take Joe and the whole Democrat party over the cliff and into the abyss.
Not even interesting, just business as usual for Democrats.
What’s the bet on his running mate being either mick obumma or killary?
Michigan = BEST State for “mooslimes”…..and it is showing…..!!!!
Here is her/their opportunity to totally SINK the State of Michigan….Typical Leftist CLOWN….!!!!
If they do there will be a civil war and all demmies will be gone
Biden will never be president
wow and they stand up and try to get bow like a drop the mic trip come on people you know whats right and whats wrong deal with her
she’s practicing to be the next HRC, getting caught and all. Now she needs a slick willie or Barry Sotero Hussein to help with a few underhanded legal tricks, a few dossiers or such… another whatserface shultz to get the ax if she gets caught…
try and get your boat in the water and see what happens you will be turned away because loading dock is closed
“They are all about rights for groups…” Yes, but only for those groups who consistently vote “D.”
Of course, there’s always the dem’s side of things? How can there be a conflict of interest when we own or control EVERY thing. Total gvt control. Then it’s all ours. Your life, your home, your money, your laws, they’re all handed down to you by the govt. Since we own it all.. it’s all ours to do what we want with. No conflict at all! Poof!
Asks the uniformed person.
What the hell is wrong with these Democrats?
She’s a democrat…business as ‘usual’.
Lets face it if the Democrats get Power America is Finished. Screwed up bunch of losers.
Laxalt 1
Whittmer 0
…or Whitmer trying to give a state contract to her own campaign team may make her eminently qualified to be a Dem VP choice. Corruption skills, political quid pro quos and totalitarian tendencies seem to be the qualities that the Dems want in their candidates.
Correct and Correct. Two thumbs up. You get the point. ;)
Actually, if for some reason he does get elected, whomever he picks would be President shortly after he takes the Oath of Office. He only seems to want his name in the History Books as being President.
She should be arrested immediately.
Except, as it says in the story, if there is a conflict of interest…
All of the dems are corrupt.
Hehe, what did you expect. An honest contract where you get bids and award it to generally the lowest bidder.
Heaven forbid Biden would pick her to be vice president and he died. This corrupt woman would be our president.
michigan is acomunist state now.with a idiof comunist in charge
Public Interest
Recreational motorboats not allowed under Michigan’s stay-at-home order
Updated Apr 10, 2020; Posted Apr 10, 2020
“it”, if you mean Governor Whitmer, is the one who said motor boats are off-limits.
where does it say motor boats can’t be on a lake? it doesn’t.
Of course, if you live here in Michigan, all you see from the media is what a great job she is doing and how she stands up for her beliefs. Like, you can’t be on a lake in a motor powered boat but if you have a row boat or a canoe, it is acceptable. Tattoo parlors are essential businesses but lawn and garden places are not. She is putting on demonstration of her “strengths” and “positives” for Biden and the DNC as she campaigns for the VP nod. In other words, she is beating Michigan residents to further her political ambitions.
Interesting to those who know history how the Democrats in state after state seem to have ties to shady characters. They are all about rights for groups; but never about accountability. Truman is often remembered for the sign on his desk “The Buck Stops Here!” but in most states long controlled by the Democrats woe betide any real reporter who asks the wrong questions. The elites just loudly accuse someone else of the crimes they are busy committing.
Michigan needs to start demanding that the Governor and the Legislature is more transparent through the FOIA (freedom of information act) requests. Accountability is the name of the game.