Whitmer calls trip criticism ‘maddening’ as Republicans intensify attacks – By Craig Mauger (The Detroit News) / April 20 2021
Lansing —The Michigan Republican Party and a handful of GOP legislators accused Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of hypocrisy Tuesday as the Democratic leader labeled their criticism of a trip to visit her father “maddening.”
At a press conference in Lansing, Republicans called on Whitmer to release more details of her out-of-state trip to see her dad during the ongoing pandemic.
“We do not take issue with folks that want to visit their parents,” party spokesman Ted Goodman said. “What we take issue with is she’s setting separate rules for the people of Michigan, and she’s not adhering to them herself.”
A day earlier, Whitmer’s spokesman Bobby Leddy confirmed that at some point, more than a month ago, the governor traveled to visit her father who is battling an unidentified chronic illness. Her father, Richard Whitmer, has a property in Florida, but Leddy wouldn’t say what state she traveled to or when the trip specifically occurred.
