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by  Alan Stamm (Photo: Gulfstream Aviation) The Michgan governors three-day March trip to Florida on a corporate jet is a touchy topic that remains sensitive. In response to continuing questions about financing for the initially undisclosed flight, Gretchen Whitmers chief of staff says in a Friday afternoon statement that the governor personally paid $855 for her seat to and from West Palm Beach on March 12 and March 15. JoAnne Huls, the senior aide, says a nonp...

DETROIT (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s private round trip to Florida to see her ailing father was paid for from a fund that’s used for travel not covered by tax dollars, her chief of staff said Friday. The cost was $27,521, with Whitmer personally paying $855 of that amount, according to the Michigan Transition 2019 website, which lists donations and expenses. The nonprofit was initially formed for inauguration events. The lack of details has dogged Whitmer since the March trip was rev...

Whitmers chief of staff takes blame for lack of clarity on Florida trip, says travel fund paid for it By FOX 2 Staff Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s private round trip to Florida to see her ailing father was paid for from a fund that’s used for travel not covered by tax dollars, her chief of staff said Friday. The cost was $27,521, with Whitmer personally paying $855 of that amount, according to the Michigan Transition 2019 website, which lists donations and expenses. The nonprofit was initially fo...

Nonprofit paid for Whitmers chartered flight out of state View Comments Lansing — A nonprofit organization tied to Gov. Gretchen Whitmers administration paid to charter the flight that carried her to Florida in March to visit her father, but Whitmer funded her seat on the flight with her own personal money. The revelations came in a memo signed by Whitmers chief of staff, JoAnne Huls, on Friday afternoon, weeks into a controversy centered on the out-of-state trip during a pandemic. "Due to on...

Disclosure: Whitmer paid $855 toward $27,500 charter flight to Florida, nonprofit paid rest Michigan Governors Office Gov. Gretchen Whitmer paid $855 toward her seat on a $27,000 charter jet flight to Florida to visit her ailing father, the governors chief of staff said Friday. A nonprofit fund spent $27,521 chartering a private jet owned by metro Detroit business families to fly Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to Florida in mid-March to visit her father, according to a new public disclosure. In a memo t...

14 May 2021 Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) office dribbled a bit more information out Friday about her secret Florida trip aboard a private jet in March. Breitbart News caught Whitmer changing her story this week from her original claim that she traveled “at her own expense.” Thursday, she would only say the trip was “not a gift” and was not “paid for at taxpayer expense.” Friday, Whitmer’s chief of staff, Joanne Huls, told MIRS News the flight cost $27,521 and was paid f...

View Comments LANSING — A nonprofit corporation paid most of the $27,521 cost of Gov. Gretchen Whitmers contentious private plane trip to visit her father, her office said Friday. Whitmer used her personal funds to pay the $855 cost of her seat, according to a report Whitmers office released. That was calculated as the comparable cost of a first-class ticket, spokeswoman Tiffany Brown told the Free Press. Fridays disclosures followed weeks of criticism of Whitmer for refusing to say when she ...

Whitmer has refused to share the dates of her trip, citing security concerns and death threats against her over the past year. Her public calendar lists events on every weekday and every Sunday in March, except on March 13-14.     Flight records show a twin-engine business jet leaving from Lansing’s Capital Region International Airport for Palm Beach, Florida, on March 12 and returning March 15. Whitmer’s father, Richard Whitmer, owns a condominium in West Palm Beach, records show. That ...

View Comments Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday her flight to visit her father was not paid for by taxpayer dollars and was not "a gift," but she declined to provide additional information about how the trip was funded. The Democratic governors comments came at a press conference about two months after she traveled out of state to visit her father, Richard Whitmer, who lives in Florida and her office says is battling a chronic illness. The Michigan Republican Party held its own W...

LANSING — Three years after becoming governor on a pledge to increase transparency, Gretchen Whitmer is under fire yet again for keeping secrets. As a gubernatorial candidate in 2018, the Democrat unveiled the Michigan Sunshine Plan, which she said would “rewrite the rules in Lansing to work for regular families by making the state government more open, transparent and accountable to Michigan taxpayers.” Nothing has come of the plan, though, or Whitmer’s pledge to open the governor’s ...