Her office recently confirmed that she had traveled outside the state several times in the past few months and that one trip was to Florida. That office stated that the purpose of the Florida trip was for Whitmer to visit her grandfather who has a chronic condition that was life threatening.
Assuming that the 'visit with her grandfather' story is true and there was no 'have a beer on the beach' part to the trip, I think Whitmer gets a pass on this. However, her 'avoid travel' comments to the Michigan residents should have included caveats with respect to trips such as 'family emergencies' or something of that kind.
This is really not an important 'hypocrisy' event (probably not even an incident of hypocrisy). However I posted partly to show, what I think is the resemblance of Whitmer to the evil nurse
Ratched who was played by Louise Fletcher in the 1975 movie "One Flew... House". This character is consistently
named as one of the best 'evil women' in movies. The movie itself is frequently credited with the de institutionalization of mentally ill people in the US. This, in turn, is sometimes blamed for the scale of the homeless situation in the US as well as the incidence of mass shootings. I take no position on de institutionalization or its impact, not having time to research it.
Post on Governor Witmer's Florida Trip is here.
The Wall St Journal had an opinion on their 4/21/2021 "Best of the Web" site,
David Eggert reports for the Associated Press on the plucky Michigander who was not about to let misguided state policy deny her a chance to visit a cherished family member. Gretchen Whitmer, a resident of Lansing, appears to have hit her personal lockdown limit sometime within the last several months. And haven’t we all? But what’s especially encouraging about her rejection of Michigan Covid policy is that she is its principal author.
