'It's overhyped': Trump mega-donor pushes to end Wisconsin's stay-at-home order

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Source: The Guardian

One of Donald Trump’s most fervent billionaire donors is lobbying against strict stay-at-home rules in the election battleground state of Wisconsin, raising troubling new questions about how the president’s rightwing financial supporters may influence the US response to the pandemic.

Liz Uihlein, the billionaire behind Wisconsin’s Uline shipping and packaging company – who with her husband, Richard, has been dubbed the most “powerful conservative couple you’ve never heard of” – is using her clout to try to force Wisconsin’s Democratic governor to relax stay-at-home rules, claiming that the crisis has been “overhyped” by the media.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/23/liz-uihlein-trump-donor-wisconsin-stay-at-home-order-coronavirus

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This continues to be an ongoing story as other states see in state protest and news sources identify the key people pushing the protest in their state.

Most identified individuals/groups have direct contact with Trump. Some are administration people some are high financial donors to Trump.

[riversedge]

1. "Liz Uihlein - who was one of 36 executives to be invited to participate in a call with Trump."

damn. sometimes I feel so defeated. so much money to fight against.



.............Health experts have warned that premature reopening of the US economy could risk US efforts to control the virus, ensuring that it surges in places where rules on lockdowns are relaxed. Trump, who still appears in daily press conferences with a team of public health experts such as Dr Anthony Fauci, has wavered on the issue. He has urged protesters to “liberate” several Democratic states from their lockdowns and usually appears keen for a swift reopening, but he has also criticized the Republican governor of Georgia for reopening too early.

While the public still largely supports shutdown efforts, the risk, some say, is that disagreements over the pandemic response devolve into another American culture war, like abortion and gun rights.

“Donald Trump is not going to go into this election siding with Dr Fauci against this Tea Party-like movement. If he thinks that this is what his base wants, he will go with them,” said Charlie Sykes, a conservative anti-Trump author and broadcaster in Wisconsin.

Critics of Liz and Richard Uihlein say it is impossible to overstate the couple’s influence over conservative politics and that Liz Uihlein’s outspoken criticism of the stay-at-home orders will act like “jet fuel” to accelerate political opposition to policies that have been endorsed by public health experts.
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Neither Uihlein has been shy about endorsing rightwing causes – especially anti-union and anti-tax groups – and fringe candidates, like Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate who was accused of sexual assault of minors and lost a special election in 2017.

Like the Mercers and the Kochs, the couple has rarely given interviews.

But reached at home this week by the Guardian, Liz Uihlein – who was one of 36 executives to be invited to participate in a call with Trump last month to discuss the national response to Covid-19 – expressed her dismay at Wisconsin’s handling of the crisis, which she said was devastating the economy......................

[AleksS]

3. And they live in their own

And they live in their own, basically villa, so their isolation is no problem.

Is it wrong for me to hope they catch COVID from a maid, cook, pilot, etc. that they’re forcing to work during the pandemic?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Greed Over People; "Let the weak die". . . . nt

[Newest Reality]

4. Is there going to be...

Is there going to be a ceremony when we hand over the title to the country, or is this a short sale?

The oligarchs are really acting as if they own it more. We have seen people evicted as scapegoats already. Will we get a two-weeks notice?

Speaking of over-hyped, those daily campaign rallies posing as briefings are about as over-hyped as it gets.

And gee, if they Senate were on Trump like those people are on a Democratic Governor, we wouldn't be in this mess. So, they persecute the best and celebrate the deplorable. That's a secret motto of the GOP and their strong arm, iron fist, boot to the face Fascism.

[cp]

5. Marie Antoinette

Only with no humanity.

[pansypoo53219]

6. the majority are w/ the guv. the protests are small. the moron can't decide.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Liz, go out amongst your followers doing the protesting to show how confident you are.

Liz, go out amongst your followers doing the protesting to show how confident you are.

No mask. No distancing.