LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The warning shot about “turning up the dial” on COVID-19 restrictions in Michigan has been made by Governor Whitmer.
In her most recent briefing on the outbreak last week, the first-term Democrat from East Lansing cautioned, “This virus is still very present, it is still very contagious, and it is still deadly. What we’ve seen happening in Florida could be Michigan if we all drop our guard.”
This comes as more than 42 hundred cases were reported statewide last week, the highest seven-day total since early May, although the number of deaths in that span of 50 was the lowest since March. The current emergency order giving Whitmer the authority to impose tighter restrictions without the advice and consent of Senator Roger Victory of Hudsonville and his colleagues in the GOP-controlled Legislature runs through August 11th, with no sign of any ending in sight.
“As the Governor is working this by herself, it’s kind of like starting dumpster fires here and there,” the first-term Republican sad on “WHTC Talk of the Town” during his monthly appearance on Monday. “A lot of these executive orders haven’t been vetted out, unintended consequences (have occurred), so each time (that this happens), we spend two weeks on cleaning that up, and then the next one comes along.”
A lawsuit by the Legislature challenging the Governor’s use of a 1945 law giving her such broad autonomous authority in an emergency is currently before the state Court of Appeals.
