Many demonstrators, some waving Trump campaign flags, ignored organizers‘ pleas to stay in their cars and flooded the streets of Lansing, the state capital.
As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan faces harsh criticism from Republicans for her stringent stay-at-home order, hundreds of protesters on Wednesday lined streets in Lansing, the state capital, with some chanting, “Recall Whitmer.”
The Democratic governor last week issued one of the nation’s strictest stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, choosing to not align the state with a federal agency’s revised list of critical infrastructure, which would allow some Michiganders to return to work. Though the list is advisory, Whitmer’s decision to tighten instead of loosen restrictions has sparked backlash from Republican legislators across the state.
Story continuesRep. Justin Amash of Michigan, a former Republican-turned independent, also took to social media on Saturday to express his frustrations about the governor’s order. “Michigan has the third most Covid-19 cases in the nation right now, and we’re not the third-largest state in the nation,” Whitmer said on NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday. “That tells you we’ve got a unique crisis on our hands, and it demands a unique solution.”
The Michigan Senate majority leader, Mike Shirkey, used Facebook on Friday to accuse Whitmer of “DESTROYING OUR HEALTH BY KILLING OUR LIVELIHOODS.”
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