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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 for by a so-called “dark money” 501c4 nonprofit originally set up to fund Whitmer’s transition ...

View Comments LANSING — A nonprofit corporation paid most of the $27,521 cost of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's 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 Whitmer's office released. That was calculated as the comparable cost of a first-class ticket, spokeswoman Tiffany Brown told the Free Press. Friday's disclosures followed weeks of criticism of Whitmer for refusing to say when she left the state to visit her father, Richard Whitmer, during the coronavirus pandemic, at a time ...

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 jet is registered to Air Eagle LLC, which has the same Detroit address as PVS Chemicals, whose chair...

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 governor's 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 Wednesday event, calling on Whitmer to answer more questions about the flight as controversy and mys...

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 office to the state’s Freedom of Information Act — and she’s under scrutiny for the second ti...