Lansing Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said Thursday that he would support a ban on the open carry of firearms within the Michigan Capitol.
The Clarklake Republican made the statement after months of debate over the state Capitol s policy allowing the open carry of firearms and a day after hundreds of individuals stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Electoral College vote count. The state Capitol was closed temporarily Thursday as law enforcement officers investigated a bomb threat.
Shirkey s support does not extend to a ban on concealed carry within the state Capitol, Shirkey s spokesman Amber McCann said Thursday.
House Speaker-elect Jason Wentworth, R-Farwell, did not immediately return a message seeking comment. His predecessor, Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, said the Legislature would need to adopt a policy that respects the rights and freedoms of people while, at the same time, ensures that people are kept safe inside our Capitol.
Jan 7, 2021
We were pleased to see Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon ease restrictions on a variety of businesses, as well as allow the return of in-person classes at high schools. Yet restaurants remain a target, and it s decimating the industry.
The state must figure out a better way to balance reducing the spread of COVID-19 and harming such an important sector of the Michigan economy and leaving many residents without a job this holiday season.
Whitmer unilaterally extended the indoor dining ban through Jan. 15, which means that restaurants across the state will all be prevented from serving patrons indoors, even with restrictions. And as any Michiganian knows, this time of year isn t conducive to outdoor dining.
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“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes.” …
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“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”…
Abraham Lincoln
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”…
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More than half of Michigan’s GOP senators air unfounded election concerns in letter to Congress
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
State Sen. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, is one of the Michigan senators who signed a letter sent to Congress to investigate election fraud claims. Here he is talking with reporters after Governor Gretchen Whitmer s State of the State address to legislators on the House floor at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, January 29, 2020. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - Eleven of Michigan’s Republican state senators urged Congress to “pursue every available option” to investigate claims of election fraud in a letter before Wednesday’s joint session in Washington to count electoral votes for president.