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BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

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BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by audiophile » Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:42 pm

Lets prohibit her from running for office. :rolleyes

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2021/07/26 ... ch-n416414?


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by BME » Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:59 pm

audiophile wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:42 pm
Lets prohibit her from running for office. :rolleyes

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2021/07/26 ... ch-n416414?
Redstate.com?

C'mon ...



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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by Matt » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:59 am

BME wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:59 pm
audiophile wrote:
Mon Jul 26, 2021 11:42 pm
Lets prohibit her from running for office. :rolleyes

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2021/07/26 ... ch-n416414?
Redstate.com?

C'mon ...
Typical leftist retort: attack the source. The story is paywalled in both the News and Freep.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by audiophile » Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:36 am

Of course, Matt. Liberals are like robots, they do what they are told.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by MWmetalhead » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:03 am

Warren Evans, the guy who just had an airport terminal building named after him, used tens of thousands of campaign funds to give "jobs" to family members.

What Whitmer did is certainly inappropriate, and appropriate sanctions should be leveled, but it's small apples to some of the shit that's been going on in Wayne County for years.

Snyder was a bit more clandestine. He set up his NERD fund, which technically wasn't a campaign fund, corporate and individual donors contributed to it, their identities were kept confidential, and potentially, they received preferential treatment from his administration (or from state governmental agencies, such as MEGA, where majority of board members were picked by Snyder).
The NERD Fund pulled in approximately $1.3 million in contributions in 2011, according to IRS filings, and received another $368,000 in 2012.

In addition to paying Baird's salary, the fund has been used to upgrade an auditorium in the governor's offices, buy an alarm system for his house, pay travel expenses for his staff and cover living expenses for Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr.
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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by audiophile » Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:15 am

Wayne County? That could be it's own thread MW, oh wait :lol

Doesn't look like Snyder benefited in any way from that fund, unlike Whitmer. If anything, it looks like it was to reduce state expenditures.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by MWmetalhead » Tue Jul 27, 2021 10:37 am

A new home security system doesn't count as a personal benefit?

True, some of the money was also used in a manner like you described, e.g. housing for Mr. Orr.

The "staff travel expense" part raises my eyebrows.



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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by audiophile » Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:41 pm

Snyder didn't use governors mansion, I think security is appropriate in that instance.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by Matt » Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:09 pm

audiophile wrote:
Tue Jul 27, 2021 4:41 pm
Snyder didn't use governors mansion, I think security is appropriate in that instance.
He lived in a condo in downtown Ann Arbor near Main and Liberty for most if his time in office too...


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:11 pm

Meanwhile, people keep dying at the fastest rate in the country in Florida, but let's complain about a quick trip to Florida instead.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by audiophile » Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:02 am

Oh a state full of retiree's is going to have low death rates? Did you skip statistics class? LOL


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:59 pm

audiophile wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:02 am
Oh a state full of retiree's is going to have low death rates? Did you skip statistics class? LOL
At least pretend like you care, homophobe.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by Matt » Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:38 pm

MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:59 pm
audiophile wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:02 am
Oh a state full of retiree's is going to have low death rates? Did you skip statistics class? LOL
At least pretend like you care, homophobe.
This is a personal responsibility thing. The government can't stop a disease. At least Governor DeSantis isn't throwing sick people in nursing homes like Tyrant Whitmer did.


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by G G » Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:37 am

MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:59 pm
audiophile wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:02 am
Oh a state full of retiree's is going to have low death rates? Did you skip statistics class? LOL
At least pretend like you care, homophobe.
Do you type with a lisp?


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Re: BREAKING: Complaint Filed Against Gretchen Whitmer Over Charter Jet Trip to Florida Last March

Post by hanson » Tue Aug 10, 2021 1:08 pm

G G wrote:
Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:37 am
MotorCityRadioFreak wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:59 pm
audiophile wrote:
Mon Aug 09, 2021 10:02 am
Oh a state full of retiree's is going to have low death rates? Did you skip statistics class? LOL
At least pretend like you care, homophobe.
Do you type with a lisp?
do you peck with your pecker



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