Whitmer supports 'spirit' of efforts
to 'defund the police'
The Detroit News,
by
Beth LeBlanc
Original Article
Posted By: Daria,
6/10/2020 11:36:56 AM
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday she supported the “spirit” of efforts to defund the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death last month at the hands of Minneapolis police, a statement that her office later clarified did not indicate support for eliminating funding for law enforcement.
The conversation surrounding the “defund the police” movement is really about reprioritizing resources, the Democratic governor told The Root in a Tuesday interview broadcast on Instagram. "The spirit as you just articulated is really just about reprioritizing and rebuilding communities, not just policing,” Whitmer said.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/10/2020 11:44:35 AM (No. 439797)
I support defunding the lockdown governors and mayors.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 6/10/2020 11:56:21 AM (No. 439817)
So, what was the Great Society from the Johnson administration all about then?
And, maybe some further examination of who LBJ was is in order too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/10/2020 12:02:27 PM (No. 439832)
This dummy faces a otential recall and she is going all BLM on the police departments? Does she really beleive that will convience eough people to change their mind and not sign the recall petition? She is so darn dum she has earned the VP spot with Biden.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 6/10/2020 12:05:39 PM (No. 439839)
WITH does that mean? Either you’re for it or against it. The left does one thing well, and that’s twisting the English language to deprive it of any meaning.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/10/2020 12:07:43 PM (No. 439841)
If they ban the police, who they use as personal guards/ protection, are they going to make taxpayers cover the expense of their protection, because they are so important and vital?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 6/10/2020 12:14:08 PM (No. 439855)
What the he11 is wrong with this dangerous broad!? OhWait, she's a socialist/commie!
9 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
cheeflo 6/10/2020 12:27:11 PM (No. 439880)
FTA: State budgets are overwhelmingly focused on law enforcement and criminal justice, the governor told the African-American-oriented online publication, but they should be focused on education, health care, skills training, public transit and “leveling the playing field,” she said. (snip) “If you do all those other things, you don’t need all the money going to the police departments,” Whitmer said”
Haven't state budgets ben doing that for decades? With little or nothing to show for it. This is the perennial mantra of people who have no understanding of human nature.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/10/2020 12:27:53 PM (No. 439882)
These fools have grabbed onto a politically deadly, total loser of a position.
If there is a more universally unpopular concept than "defund the police", I have no idea what it is.
I hope they stick to this, and keep pushing it, make it their signature issue. It is a LOSER, and seriously stupid, seriously dangerous.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/10/2020 12:37:45 PM (No. 439907)
The defund thing is a way for morons to speak out of both sides of their mouth. The reality is the cities need cops because they normally are in a slow motion riot but lately its been speeded up a bit.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/10/2020 12:42:04 PM (No. 439913)
Whitmer cordially invites us to Nuremberg.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/10/2020 12:43:52 PM (No. 439915)
And I support the "spirit" of rainbows and unicorns. Can these flagrant morons like Da Blassio and Whitless get any more off the wall ?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mizzmac 6/10/2020 1:14:13 PM (No. 439966)
"I support defunding, but not really defunding. More like, taking money away from police budgets. And putting it somewhere else. For warm and fuzzy things that are not measurable but make us all feel like we're woke. So I hope you'll vote for me based on the spirit of my pledge to defund police, without really knowing what that means. There. You understand where I'm coming from, right? Because Black Lives Matter. Yeah. That should do it."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
web 6/10/2020 1:27:06 PM (No. 439984)
We keep trying to rebuild communities, but democrat governors and mayors promote policies that allow them to degenerate and decay, and then blacks burn them all down. I'm at the point where I just don't really care anymore, and I'm sick of hearing from black people whining all the time.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 6/10/2020 1:38:24 PM (No. 439998)
Spirit this woman out the door.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 6/10/2020 1:58:48 PM (No. 440029)
Start first, governor. De-fund and get rid of your police protection.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 6/10/2020 2:09:27 PM (No. 440042)
I've got your spirit circling the toilet bowl...you are surely one of the biggest wastes of genetic material on the face of the earth...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/10/2020 2:15:56 PM (No. 440053)
That should be a fun concept in Detroit and Flint! Go for it
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/10/2020 3:27:53 PM (No. 440117)
This woman is a true POS...Piece Of Schifft!
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Comrade Governor Whitmer, elected by predominately white
unions and the black vote, not to mention all the snow flakes
and marxis prof's of all the universities. Other than that Michigan
is a red State.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/10/2020 6:10:58 PM (No. 440239)
She actually appears to be as loony as she looks.
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