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May 24, 2021 Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was outed as violating her coronavirus restrictions at a bar over the weekend, as first reported by Breitbart News. In images originally posted on Facebook, Whitmer is shown with 13 friends at a bar in East Lansing, Michigan. The governor’s chief operations officer Tricia Foster also appears in the photos. According to restaurant capacity restrictions Whitmer put in place on May 15, Michiganders are only permitted to be “separated by at least 6 feet” and “no more than 6 patrons are [to be] seated together.” All the revealing posts...

Whitmer Faces IRS Complaint, New Bill Over Florida Trip She Failed to Disclose Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is facing a complaint to federal tax authorities and new legislation over a trip to Florida this year that she initially did not disclose. Whitmer, a Democrat, went to Florida in March to visit her father. She omitted the trip when discussing her recent travel in April, but her office has since reluctantly released details about the trip after local media published stories about it. For instance, the office disclosed on May 14 that Michigan Transition 2019, a corporate nonprofit forme...

20 May 2021 Dishonesty and hypocrisy surrounding Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) secret “personal” trip to Florida are threatening the one-time rising star’s political future. Like other Democrat governors, Whitmer opted to impose harsh restrictions in an attempt to deal with the coronavirus in 2020. After a spike in cases towards the end of the year, she reimposed many orders through her Department of Health and Human Services after her executive orders were ruled unconstitutional in October. In early April 2021, as coronavirus variants were growing around the country, Whitmer w...

Getty Images Philip Caldwell • May 19, 2021 5:20 pm A conservative watchdog group on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service over a nonprofit-sponsored private flight Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) took to Florida. Michigan Rising Action alleges Whitmer improperly benefited from nonprofit funds that were used to pay for a private charter flight she took to Florida to visit her father on March 12. Michigan Transition 2019, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that paid for the flight, was founded in 2018 to pay for Whitmer's inauguration expenses. Whitmer did not initia...

27 Apr 2021 Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has endorsed three statewide candidates for Virginia’s 2021 elections who called for his resignation after he became embroiled in a scandal in 2019 involving a racist yearbook photo. Northam, who cannot seek a consecutive term as governor under Virginia’s constitution, has announced endorsements for Democrat candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. All three candidates embraced Northam’s support for their upcoming races after having demanded his resignation in 2019. Northam, at the time of the scandal, faced calls to...