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10 Feb, 6 tweets, 4 min read
New column from me:

Michigan business leaders want political civility? Show Mike Shirkey the door.

crainsdetroit.com/voices-chad-li… via @crainsdetroit
"Just one thing...," @SenMikeShirkey says in a hot mic moment before telling @LtGovGilchrist he won't back down about "any of the points I was trying to make" about @GovWhitmer.

The lieutenant governor just listened.

“So I read ... that the Republican majority leader in the state of Michigan went before a group of loyalists … and said, ‘What we think we saw on Jan. 6 is not the case. These were not Trump supporters. This was a hoax. It was all pre-arranged.’”

Gilchrist on Shirkey not backing down from Whitmer comments: "His so-called apology was not heartfelt, nor did it come from a place of humility & understanding. Rather, it was an empty gesture made for political expediency & one that the people of Michigan can see right through."
UPDATED @AP story from @DavidEggert00:

Michigan Republican leader @SenMikeShirkey apologizes, then stands by U.S. Capitol insurrection "hoax" comments

@LtGovGilchrist: "It's long-past time for the highest-ranking member of the Legislature to grow up..."

crainsdetroit.com/government/mic…
INBOX: "Remarks on Comments"

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9 Feb
JUST IN: @SenMikeShirkey is apologizing for comments he made in a videotaped meeting with Hillsdale County Republicans. His statement doesn't say what exactly he's apologizing for.

He's on tape saying he contemplating challenging @GovWhitmer "to a fistfight on the Capitol lawn."
Michigan GOP leader @SenMikeShirkey apologizes after calling U.S. Capitol riot a "hoax from day one"

crainsdetroit.com/government/mic…
Adding @SenMikeShirkey’s hot mic comments to this thread.
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14 Jan
UP NEXT: Michigan Attorney General @dananessel and her Flint water investigation team led by Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy are holding a press conference on today's charges against ex-Gov. Rick Snyder and his former top aides.
Nessel's press conference can be viewed live here:
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy says the Flint water probe is one the largest criminal investigations "in the WORLD."

Judge David Newblatt served as the one-man grand jury (known as a grand juror since he's a jurist).
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13 Jan
Bars and restaurants can reopen Feb. 1 with mask requirements, capacity limits and a curfew, @GovWhitmer says at Capitol news conference.

She didn't have details to share yet on what the limits will be or how late the curfew will be.

Ohio has a 10 p.m. curfew. for bar closures. Image
Under today's @MichiganHHS epidemic order, here's what the state is allowing to be open and what's not through the end of January. @crainsdetroit Image
"Indoor dining brings risks because it involves taking off masks," MDHHS Director @robertmgordon says.

Gordon on two more weeks of restaurants and bars being closed to dine-in service: "Now is not the time to let down our guard."
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13 Jan
HAPPENING NOW: @GovWhitmer holding a press conference with MDHHS Director @robertmgordon, @DrKhaldun and chief operating officer Tricia Foster.

She's talking #COVIDvaccine distribution and expected to address reopening of bars and restaurants on Feb. 1.

clickondetroit.com/health/good-he…
Gov. Whitmer starts press conference by touting feds action yesterday to release more vaccine doses after she and other governors wrote a letter to @SecAzar pushing for it.
ALERT: State has picked @meijer to help administer #COVID19 vaccines using the Michigan-based grocery giant's pharmacies, @GovWhitmer says.
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12 Jan
TAKE NOTE: Detroit @MayorMikeDuggan has made a decision to stick to Phase 1B and NOT skip to Phase 1C as @GovWhitmer has allowed for the rest of the state.

Here's his math:

1/3 of Detroiters who died from #COVID19 in 2020 were over age 75.
40,000 over 75 years old
100,000 65-74
Duggan said he understands Whitmer's decision to make vaccines available to 65 & up, but notes he, @MarkHackel, @CountyExecEvans & @davidwcoulter are getting the brunt of the calls.

Hackel critical of Whitmer for opening up floodgates to 65-74 year-olds.
crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/ha…
"The point at which the 75-year-olds stop filling up the slots, 4 and 5 weeks out, we're gonna change it to 72-year-olds, and then we're gonna change it to 72-year-olds, and we're gonna change it to 70-year-olds, then 67-year-olds, then 65 —we're gonna keep bringing the age down"
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29 Dec 20
➡️ @GovWhitmer just blocked another precedent-setting tax burden shift by the Michigan Legislature.

She vetoed $220M in general fund tax dollars lawmakers designated for the Unemployment Trust Fund, which is traditionally funded by a tax on employers.

crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/wh…
GOP lawmakers wanted to make other areas of gov’t pay for a continued 6-week extension of unemployment benefits.

And, again, employers fund the trust fund, not average Joe who works on a 1099 & is ineligible got UI. Legislature wanted to make Joe pay in.

crainsdetroit.com/voices-chad-li…
Here’s the thing: Michigan’s Unemployment Trust doesn’t need the $220M bailout money the Legislature wanted to spend:

The trust fund’s $773M balance is one the healthiest in the country.

Other Great Lakes states have been borrowing billions this year.
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