Gretchen Whitmer

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/27/2023
  

  Does Gov. Whitmer Have a Formula for a Democratic Response to GOP Culture War?

  In Michigan, the Democratic majority is repealing "right to work" laws and protecting abortion rights and LBGTQ antidsicrimination by law. Historians Erik Loomis and Michael Kazin argue that it's not a historical anomaly for the party to push for inclusion on multiple fronts. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/5/2022
  

  A Whitmer-DeSantis Showdown Would Put Two Visions of Public Health on the Ballot

  by Andrew Wehrman

  History suggests that Whitmer's approach to public responsibility for pandemic control works better than DeSantis's individualistic framework for controlling disease. Which one might win votes is another question. 

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• 10/9/2020
  

  FBI Arrests Plotters to Kidnap Michigan Governor, Highlighting Trump's "Liberate Michigan" Rhetoric

  On October 8, the FBI announced multiple arrests in a plot to kidnap Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, whose support for lockdown measures to fight COVID-19 moved Trump to call on right-wing mobs to "Liberate Michigan." 

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• SOURCE: Detroit News
  10/8/2020
  

  Feds Say They Thwarted Militia Plot To Kidnap Whitmer

  The FBI announced that it thwarted a conspiracy to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who has drawn attacks from the far right over her advocacy for lockdown policies to stop the spread of COVID-19.