Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D).
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is refusing to release data on the state’s nursing Home outbreak of the Wuhan pneumonia virus. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist wants to sue him “all the way to the Supreme Court.
Veteran journalist Charlie LeDuff announced via Twitter that he and the Mackinac Center, a free-market think tank based in Michigan, are “preparing to sue” the Democratic governor.
The 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner said Whitmer “refuses to turn over COVID (Communist Party of China virus) death data and nursing home (outbreak) data” to the public.
LeDuff tweeted to thank the Mackinac Center for taking their case and said he would take Whitmer all the way to the Supreme Court.
Fox News reached out to Whitmer’s office for comment in response to Mackinaw’s plan to file a lawsuit and did not receive an immediate response.
“The public has a right to know. Most importantly, the public has a right-to-know need. We’ve brought the economy all to a halt; we’ve interrupted the lives of our children, and all of these (restrictions) were (imposed) under the banner of protecting the most vulnerable. We now know this is the elderly in long term care (long-term care) facilities. If we can’t protect them, at least we should get an explanation from the governor’s lady.” McKeown told Fox News in an email Monday (March 1).
“If there is something more than that, let’s say gross incompetence or gross negligence or a press conference of (a) serious nature designed to cover up the facts, then she needs to answer for that. As I’ve always said, the power lies with the people, not the political parties.” McKeown added.
Communist virus pandemic. Whitmer imposed a strict blockade on Michigan that was deemed unconstitutional and sparked massive protests. Thousands of protesters compared her to German dictator Hitler and marched to the state Capitol to protest. More recently, she has come under fire for her handling of the Epidemic in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
In two recent letters to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Acting U.S. Attorney General Monty Wilkinson, several Republican state lawmakers called for a “full investigation” of Whitmer’s actions.
Whitmer is accused of “placing patients infected and uninfected with COVID-19 (a disease caused by the Chinese Communist virus) in the same facilities” and in doing so “may have worsened the death toll at those facilities.
The lawmakers noted “discrepancies” in the data related to “deaths and cases in the state’s long-term care facilities.
“It has now come to our attention that these reporting errors are likely unaddressed.” Republicans charged.
Michigan health Department chief’s sudden resignation raises concerns
The head of the Michigan Department of Health resigned abruptly in January, The Detroit News was the first to report Monday. He will receive $155,506 in severance pay, and the reasons for his departure have not been explained.
Former Michigan Health Department Director Robert Gordon also signed a confidentiality agreement “to protect discussions among government officials,” according to an agreement obtained by The Detroit News through an open records request.
Steve Johnson, chairman of the Michigan State Housing Oversight Board, said in a statement, “We found secret backroom dealings by the Whitmer administration during COVID (the Chinese Communist virus) and continue to investigate what the Whitmer administration did.” “While this doesn’t surprise me, the deception is shocking and it shows how much this administration needs oversight to hold them accountable.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under pressure to be impeached for concealing data on nursing home deaths at a Time when Michigan’s handling of the nursing home outbreak is gaining attention.
Cuomo is also embroiled in another scandal. Two of his former aides, Charlotte Bennett and Lindsey Boylan, previously accused him of sexual harassment.
Late Monday, Anna Ruch, 33, told The New York Times that she and the governor met at a wedding in September 2019, where he made offensive advances toward her.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that the sexual harassment allegations against the New York governor were “credible” and supported an independent investigation of Cuomo.
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