Gretchen Whitmer

Gretchen Whitmer
Governor of Michigan From: January 1, 2019 - present
Predecessor	Rick Snyder
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Michigan Senate, 23rd District From: March 21, 2006 - January 1, 2015
Predecessor	Virgil Bernero
Successor	Curtis Hertel Jr.
Michigan House of Representatives, 70th District From: January 1, 2001 - December 31, 2002
Predecessor	Laura Baird
Successor	Judy Emmons
Michigan House of Representatives, 69th District From: January 1, 2003 - November 15, 2006
Predecessor	???
Successor	Mark Meadows
Information
Party	Democrat
Spouse(s)	Marc Mallory
Religion	Christian (in name only)

Gretchen Esther "Half-wit" (see below) Whitmer (born August 23, 1971) is the current Governor of Michigan. She previously served in the Michigan Senate, and in the Michigan House of Representatives before that.

Governor of Michigan

2018 Michigan gubernatorial election

See also: 2018 Midterm elections

Whitmer ran for governor in 2018 and easily won the gubernatorial election over Bill Schuette by almost 10% of the vote, with the results largely attributed to a blue wave, Schuette being a weaker candidate, and Democrats blaming Rick Snyder and the Republicans over the Flint water crisis.

Tenure

Incompetent handling of coronavirus outbreak

After it came to be known that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for coronavirus, Whitmer banned doctors from prescribing it. Only a few days later, Whitmer immediately reversed the crackdown and requested that the Trump administration supply the very drug she had just previously banned constituents from obtaining.

Former U.S. representative Kerry Bentivolio reported to National File in late March 2020 that Whitmer and her office had rejected his offer of accepting several thousand facemasks to distribute throughout Michigan.

Whitmer declared what items are and are not “essential,” dictating to grocery stores what they can and cannot sell. Among nonessential and banned, items are fruit and vegetable seeds. Self-sufficiency and growing fruits and vegetables at home while on lockdown would maintain social distancing by avoiding grocery stores during the pandemic. Lottery tickets and revenue to the state from gambling however, is still permitted.

Michiganders are banned from traveling “between residences” if they own a cottage or a summer home, but the ban only applies to Michigan residents, so an out-of-stater with a cottage in the Upper Peninsula could presumably still visit. The ban also still allows travel between states, so if a Michigander has a cottage in Wisconsin or Ohio, he can travel without fear of being arrested or fined by state police.

Disdain from Michiganders

Known as "Half-wit Whitmer" after a tweet by Donald Trump calling out the governor over incompetence, a petition to recall the election of Whitmer and oust her has garnered over 120,000 signatures as of March 13, 2020.

After many Michiganders have already had strong disdain for the governor, a protest known as Operation Gridlock organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition emerged on March 15, 2020 in Lansing to protest Whitmer's totalitarian policies, with thousands driving to the city to put a gridlock on the traffic and oppose the restrictive orders that have been enacted statewide.

Hypocrisy

Whitmer is a hypocrite who claims to be against "anti-choice" legislation while having voted against a bill to reinforce punishments against those that coerce women to get an abortion.

Despite having called a twenty-cent gas tax increase “ridiculous” at the 2018 gubernatorial debate, Whitmer called for a forty-five-cent gas tax increase five months later as governor, claiming that it would fix roads in Michigan.

Political views

Endorsed by progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood, MoveOn, and the Human Rights Campaign, Whitmer is a leftist who opposes voter ID, school vouchers, and late-term abortion bans.

External links

• Governor Gretchen Whitmer
• Gretchen Whitmer - Ballotpedia