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8 Oct, 14 tweets, 11 min read
THEY PLOTTED ON CAPITOL GROUNDS: On June 18, some militia members charged today in a plot to kidnap @GovWhitmer met at a Second Amendment rally at the Capitol, the FBI says.

Lansing Pulse headline that day: "Protesters from the left and right mix peacefully at the Capitol"
STORY: Feds foil militia plot to kidnap Michigan @GovWhitmer from her Up North vacation home

DEVELOPING STORY...
crainsdetroit.com/government/fed… via @crainsdetroit
Adding this to the thread.

This domestic terrorism group went by Wolverine Watchmen, according to Attorney General @dananessel's office.

Nessel is charging seven men under Michigan's anti-terrorism laws.
Here are three of the seven men charged by AG @dananessel in the plot to kidnap @GovWhitmer, arraigned in Antrim County, where the governor has a family vacation home.
For the national audience just tuning into Michigan's Second Amendment rallies at the state Capitol, here's a thread...

Michigan Attorney General's Office confirms that the first and third men (from left) in this April 30 photo of armed men in Senate gallery are among the 13 men charged in a plot to kidnap @GovWhitmer.

@SenPolehanki took this photo.

Michigan House Speaker @LeeChatfield calls men who plotted to kidnap @GovWhitmer and kill cops “terrorists” in statement on Facebook.
New column from me:

In plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor, policy allowing guns inside state Capitol gets renewed scrutiny

“I don't feel safe in this workplace,” @SenPolehanki says.

crainsdetroit.com/voices-chad-li…
UPDATE: Mich. AG @dananessel's spokeswoman confirms the man on the right in @SenPolehanki's April 30 photo of armed men in the Senate gallery is William Null, 38, of Shelbyville. He faces a 20-year felony charge of providing material support for terrorist acts in plot against gov
On Thursday, @SenMikeShirkey threw cold water on the concept that if guns are banned in the Capitol, no gunman will ever storm inside and start shooting.

"If we get rid of all risk, there's only one absolutely guaranteed outcome — no freedom," he said.
crainsdetroit.com/voices-chad-li…
UPDATE: @GovWhitmer and her family were moved as kidnap plotters were tracked by law enforcement agencies, Attorney General @dananessel said on @CBSThisMorning

crainsdetroit.com/government/ag-…

via @AP's @DavidEggert00 & @edwritez
Here's an @LSJNews photo of William Null at a June 18 2nd Amendment rally the LSJ reports was titled, "American Patriot Rally: A well-regulated militia."

June 18 is the same day prosecutors allege Null's militia group and 6 men charged with plotting to kidnap Whitmer teamed up.
Also on June 18, @GovWhitmer extended the #coronavirus state of emergency by another 28 days.
crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/wh…

Later that day, @MIGOPChair issued a statement calling for an end of "Gretchen Whitmer's experiment with executive dictatorship."

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2 Oct
WHOA.

Michigan Supreme Court rules against @GovWhitmer's use of 1945 emergency powers law in #COVID19 pandemic, says 145 law "is in violation of the Constitution of our state because it purports to delegate to the executive branch the legislative powers of state government..."
STORY: Michigan Supreme Court's ruling throws into doubt @GovWhitmer's continued use of the 1945 emergency powers law for issuing executive orders that she has used to restrict economic and human activity since March in an effort to protect public health.

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"This is a great day for the people of Michigan," @MIGOPChair Laura Cox said in a statement about 4 GOP-nominated justice striking down the Democratic governor's public health emergency powers.

UPDATED STORY: crainsdetroit.com/government/mic…

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30 Sep
There's a lot of Michigan House TV video of state Rep. @BeauMattLaFave not wearing a mask during the 9/22 and 9/24 House Judiciary Committee meetings last week in both the Capitol and the House Office Building, within 8 days of getting a positive test for #COVID19. ImageImageImage
LaFave wore a mask for most of the 9/22 Judiciary Committee (top right), except when he spoke & asked questions of witnesses. I skimmed through the 9/24 hearing video and didn't see any mask use. At one point, he got up and walked out of the House Approps room for a little while. Image
Last Thursday, Rep. LaFave appears to have shouted his vote on a couple of bills in committee from the back of the House Appropriations Committee room. He's not shown on camera, but perhaps he was talking with someone.

Starts at 33:20-mark of this video:
house.mi.gov/SharedVideo/Pl…
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30 Sep
President Trump claims, without citing any evidence, that "we're weeks away from a vaccine" for #COVID19.

#Debates2020
Trump tries to hit Biden on H1N1 swine flu epidemic in 2009.

Biden counters 14,000 died in that pandemic during the Great Recession.

200,000 Americans have died of the novel coronavirus since February under Trump's watch.
Trump says he's spoken with Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies and claims they've could produce the #COVID19 vaccine "faster" than mid-summer 2021 as Trump's own advisers claim.
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27 Sep
Time Crunch: #Michigan's surge in absentee voting to test capacity of election workers

Clerks face a daunting task of delivering fast election results for 3 million-plus absentee ballots

My story in ⁦@crainsdetroit⁩’s monthly #CrainsForum: crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/t…
Grand Rapids firm develops service for tracking absentee ballots in the mail; Troy, Huntington Woods, Grand Rapids among 10 cities using it this fall

(No paywall)

crainsdetroit.com/crains-forum/g… #CrainsForum @crainsdetroit
5 Republican clerks to Michigan’s GOP-controlled Legislature: One more day to process absentee ballots is not enough

cc: @LeeChatfield @SenMikeShirkey

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22 Sep
--> @GovWhitmer and two of her top advisers, @DrKhaldun and @MarkTottenMI, recorded a video talking about their decision-making for executive orders responding to the #coronavirus pandemic and when the state of emergency may end. #COVID19 #MIGov #MiLeg ImageImageImage
--> @MarkTottenMI, the governor's chief legal counsel, reiterated what @GovWhitmer has said that the state of emergency won't go on forever. "It's a matter of months. It is important, right now, that the protections continue to stay in place because we face a very real enemy." Image
"What's been so important in this recovery is the emergency measures, the orders, that the governor has put in place to try to limit the spread of COVID-19," gov attorney @MarkTottenMI says.

Axing 1945 law would remove "the heart ... what we know has saved thousands of lives." Image
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22 Sep
Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail is giving an update on the county's #COVID19 outbreaks around MSU right now in a Zoom press conference. Here's cases per day compared to the positivity rate (blue line) since March. The spike in June is the outbreak at Hapers & other places Image
New cases of #COVID19 in Ingham County per week have dropped off, but Linda Vail said there will be increases in counts because of the onset date for the virus is different than when a person tests positive. Image
Ingham County health officer says her department counts about 1,200 cases tied to MSU students, faculty or staff. Doesn't include secondary cases tied to MSU folks.

She also said there are currently no COVID-positive individuals hospitalized in Ingham County right now.
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