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Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey called Consumers Energy Co. his No. 1 enemy during a secretly recorded meeting with Hillsdale County Republican Party officials last week a characterization that one of his home county s largest private employers is responding to.
The Hillsdale County GOP leaders recorded their meeting with Shirkey on Feb. 3 at a diner in Jonesville, where they laid out reasons why they planned to censure him the next day.
During a heated exchange in which one of the men accused Shirkey of lacking integrity, the topic of corporate influence in politics came up.
Conservative Christian, prominent businessman, polarizing politician. Who is Mike Shirkey?
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey speaks during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2020 in Lansing. Nicole Hester/Mlive.com
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He called the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building a “hoax.” He said he “spanked” the governor of Michigan on several policy issues.
Those remarks captured in a video recording by members of the Hillsdale County Republican Party have drawn intense scrutiny around the state and country, but Michigan’s most powerful elected Republican, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, is no stranger to controversy.
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‘Such immaturity’: What Michigan leaders are saying after GOP senator’s Capitol ‘hoax’ comment
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey speaks during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2020 in Lansing. Nicole Hester/Mlive.com
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In a secretly-recorded video, the GOP’s top Michigan state senator called the Capitol insurrection a “hoax,” said he’s “spanked” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on the budget and has contemplated inviting Whitmer “to a fistfight on the Capitol lawn.”
Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, met personally with the Hillsdale County Republican Party leaders, but even that wasn’t enough to save him from being censured by the group for straying from “conservative values.”