Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer vacationed to Florida during Michigan’s Covid-19 surge while telling Michiganders to stay home and avoid travel.
Whitmer specifically attacked Floridians and blamed “snow birds” traveling from the Sunshine State into Michigan for her state’s Covid surge.
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Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Whitmer, gives few details about Whitmer’s trip. The governor’s spokesperson confirmed on Monday that Whitmer took a “personal trip” to Florida last month during spring break!
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨THREAD: @GovWhitmer vacationed to Florida during Michigan’s COVID-19 surge, despite telling Michiganders to stay home and avoid travel.
— Michigan GOP (@MIGOP) April 19, 2021
But Brown denied the allegation. Brown said Whitmer “did not go on spring break,” but traveled “to assist her elderly father who is battling a chronic illness,” according to a report from Detroit Free Press. Brown added that Gov. Whitmer has left the state three times in the last six months.
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The Michigan GOP also said that Whitmer’s top staffers secretly traveled to Florida and Alabama for vacation.
A number of Whitmer’s top staffers have also been caught secretly traveling to Florida and Alabama for vacation, revealing an administration-wide attitude that they were above the people they serve.
— Michigan GOP (@MIGOP) April 19, 2021
Whitmer went on a media blitz telling Michiganders to stay home and mask up amid a “spring surge” in the state.
The Democrat Governor specifically targeted Florida in remarks made to the media in early April.
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Whitmer blamed “snow birds” traveling from Florida to Michigan.
WATCH:
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer discusses the surge of Covid-19 cases in Michigan: “Travel, variants… on top of the natural fatigue that comes a year into this is making our jobs a lot tougher and that’s why we have to keep pushing through to vaccinate the people in this state.” pic.twitter.com/EDZAbyrDq9
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) April 6, 2021
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