Whitmer ignores GOP provocations, stays the course in third State of the State address

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(Detroit Free Press) It has been a long year, and a hard one, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer acknowledged at the start of her third State of the State address, delivered Wednesday night to a state yet facing twin crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, and the damage the virus has wreaked on Michigan's economy.

Throughout this year, unlike any we've ever seen, Whitmer has remained disciplined, focused and on message, despite organized protests of her COVID-19 emergency orders, a murder plot engineered by domestic terrorists and a recalcitrant Legislature.

And in the last statewide poll, taken in December, she continued to score unusually high approval ratings. However many protesters thronged to the state Capitol, a majority of Whitmer's constituents has been willing to believe that she is on the right track. ............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2021/01/28/whitmer-state-state-address-covid-19/4286404001/

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1. We are so lucky to have this woman as our governor.

She has been simply outstanding. I would support her for almost anything she wanted to do. I am, however, tired of getting requests for money from her "group". I gave more than I should have to her and others last year. Yeah, the budget got more than squeezed, but it was worth it. Now, however, I need to regroup. On the other hand, if she really needed my money to stay in office right now I'd send her some. I feel so grateful for her steady guidance and staying power. I just also want to be able to pay the heat bills and not go into hock again.