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.
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.
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.
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
