Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, "That woman from Michigan"

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, "That woman from Michigan"

BY MARTHA TEICHNER
MARCH 26, 2023 / 10:20 AM / CBS NEWS

The shooting last month at Michigan State University, killing three people and injuring five, was the wrong kind of right moment to catapult gun control to the top of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's agenda. She told a rally on March 15, "We are done only offering 'thoughts and prayers.' It is time for action."

Whitmer may be days away from signing what she calls common-sense gun measures ("universal background checks, safe storage, and extreme risk protection orders" ) into law.

MSU was the second mass shooting on Whitmer's watch. In November 2021, a fifteen-year-old killed four and injured seven at Oxford High School north of Detroit. Nothing changed.

The difference between then and now?

Now, in her second term, she has the power to act, and is in a hurry to use it. Passed already this year: tax breaks for the working poor and seniors; protections of LGBTQ rights; and a rollback of restrictions on labor unions.

How did it happen? Whitmer pulled off a big, blue trifecta in last November's elections. She beat a Donald Trump-endorsed MAGA Republican. Democrats, riding her coattails, took both houses of the state legislature, something that hasn't happened in Michigan in nearly 40 years, albeit by slim margins. And Michigan voters passed a constitutional amendment Whitmer championed protecting abortion rights.

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Whitmer said, "While I have really grown as a leader in the last four years, I have to get back to the table and negotiate budgets with people who have shared stages with plotters who wanted to kidnap and kill me. I still have to negotiate and get a budget done. Governors can't just take positions, and we can't throw, you know, bombs at the other side. We gotta get things done."

Whitmer's steeliness comes at a cost. Her husband, Marc Mallory, retired years early from his dental practice, he says, due to multiple threats to his patients and staff. ................(more)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/governor-gretchen-whitmer-that-woman-from-michigan/

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. shame about all the threats. Glad she's in office

[Red Mountain]

2. So when....

are the talking heads going to start whispering about her chances at the Presidency?

[Demsrule86]

3. Biden will run for president...we need her in Michigan.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. They already are, actually

And why not? She's got the Moxie.

Go Big Gretch

[BOSSHOG]

6. There's not a Republican alive

Who would do better then that woman from Michigan. She’s woke and they are the least America has to offer.

Welcome Aboard Writethinker. Glad you are here.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. So proud to have her as my governor.

She’s been amazing.

[roamer65]

8. I luv my Guv.