Why is Whitmer still paying people not to work?
Our state is experiencing an unemployment crisis, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s latest veto isn’t helping. In Michigan, there aren’t too few jobs. On the contrary, job openings are everywhere, but after a year of lockdown orders, “non-essential” work closures, and...
Will the Redistricting Commission Make Gerrymandering Worse?
Things have changed. In 2018 voters went to the polls and approved a constitutional amendment that puts legislative redistricting in the hands of 13 unelected citizens chosen at random from a pool of partisan and allegedly nonpartisan activist applicants. The goal,...
Whitmer’s Latest Vetoes Hurt Struggling Students And Small Businesses
Governor Gretchen Whitmer shut down schools and the economy. Multiple times. The only thing more devastating than her previous orders is her hypocritical vetoes hurting students and small businesses while they continue to struggle. Michigan students struggled...
Redistricting commission may make gerrymandering worse
This column originally appeared in The Detroit News. It started with a promise. Left-wing activists told voters that if they approved a new “independent” citizens redistricting commission, they’d draw legislative maps that let voters choose their politicians instead...
Whitmer Rewriting her History of Hypocrisy
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is desperately trying to rewrite history. Whitmer went to Newsweek magazine to defend her secret, hypocritical trip to Florida claiming that she hasn’t violated any of her own rules. It seems Whitmer also wants us to forget that time when she...
With Michigan’s Comeback Ranked 51st, the President Comes to Celebrate
Michigan workers have been devastated, and the state’s COVID recovery trails that of every other state in the nation, but none of that apparently will stop President Joe Biden from visiting Michigan on the eve of Independence Day to ‘celebrate’ the state’s miserable...
Communities of Interest?
As a result of Proposal 2 of 2018, Michigan’s redistricting process has undergone a seismic shift. Michigan’s district lines are no longer drawn by the people’s elected representatives in the legislature, but a panel of thirteen randomly selected bureaucrats....
Whitmer Sprinting Towards Socialism
First, Governor Gretchen Whitmer unilaterally shut down the state. Then she seized total control over who was allowed to work, when, where, and under what conditions. She told Michiganders what they were allowed to buy and when they were allowed to buy it, and she...
Jocelyn Benson’s 132,480 Minute Guarantee
Remember the 30-minute guarantee? No, not that old Dominos Pizza ad campaign. Much more recently, Jocelyn Benson, then a candidate for Secretary of State, offered voters a 30-minute guarantee of her own. If you had business to do at the Secretary of State’s office,...
Opinion: Secretary of State Benson doesn’t care about customer service
This column originally appeared in the Detroit News. Customer service still matters, no matter how little some politicians care.The pandemic has changed the way businesses and their team members interact with customers. We’ve seen companies and creative workers...
