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Border-wall critic Gretchen Whitmer builds electrified fence around governor’s mansion, hands taxpayers $1.1 million bill
www.bizpacreview.com
10 Sep 2020 ~~ By Jon Dougherty
Controversial Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, once considered a frontrunner to become Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, has authorized construction of a large fence around the governor’s mansion in Lansing as part of a $1.1 million security upgrade.
The 8-foot-tall electrified fence is especially galling to Whitmer critics because she has routinely criticized President Donald Trump’s construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border as a way to help reduce illegal immigration and human trafficking.
She has also questioned the effectiveness of security walls but is nevertheless billing taxpayers for the expensive upgrade that will include electrified fencing because, according to local media, Whitmer is fearful of threats.
Officially, the upgrades are designed to “ensure the safety, security, and protection of any sitting governor and the first family,” according to the governor’s office.
A Biden surrogate who may well be tapped for a position in his administration if he wins in November, Whitmer has routinely criticized President Trump’s border wall. In February 2017, shortly after Trump took office, she complained that his proposed wall would be “costly and ineffective” after initially suggesting days earlier the money would be better spent somewhere else.
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“So the American people, I think, see through this – they understand this is not a spontaneous caravan of vulnerable people,” he added.
As for the effectiveness of walls and barriers, they are not in dispute, especially along the porous U.S. southwestern border. For instance, a University of Illinois-Chicago study published in July found that a fence along all portions of the border where sections can be built would deter about 86,000 people from entering the U.S. illegally every three months.
“Fence construction significantly decreases the size of the likely undocumented, Mexican-born population on the U.S. side of the border and in the U.S. interior,” the study said.
As for Whitmer, her extended coronavirus business closures and lockdowns have sparked regular court fights and widespread protests from angry residents who have been forbidden from working, attending church, or engaging in other activities that are supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitution.
Comment:
‘Good for Me But Not for Thee’..... Ironically the security is to protect Whitmer from those that supposedly elected her to office, the radical Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left. Surely the good citizens of Michigan would never dispute her power over the PEOPLE.
Hmm... a deadly electrified fence.... one has to wonder if she took a tip from her STASI allies of East Germany...
Obviously after the poor governance she have given to the citizens of the State she plans on stealing the coming election for Biden and herself. The extra security will be needed when the civil war starts begins in earnest.
The State Governor's mansion does not belong to her... It belongs to the People of the State, not to Whitmer or the Democratic Party she represents....
Border-wall critic Gretchen Whitmer builds electrified fence around governor's mansion, hands taxpayers $1.1 million bill
Gretchen Whitme has authorized construction of a large wall around the governor’s mansion in Lansing though she has criticized Trump's border wall
www.bizpacreview.com
Controversial Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, once considered a frontrunner to become Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, has authorized construction of a large fence around the governor’s mansion in Lansing as part of a $1.1 million security upgrade.
The 8-foot-tall electrified fence is especially galling to Whitmer critics because she has routinely criticized President Donald Trump’s construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border as a way to help reduce illegal immigration and human trafficking.
She has also questioned the effectiveness of security walls but is nevertheless billing taxpayers for the expensive upgrade that will include electrified fencing because, according to local media, Whitmer is fearful of threats.
Officially, the upgrades are designed to “ensure the safety, security, and protection of any sitting governor and the first family,” according to the governor’s office.
A Biden surrogate who may well be tapped for a position in his administration if he wins in November, Whitmer has routinely criticized President Trump’s border wall. In February 2017, shortly after Trump took office, she complained that his proposed wall would be “costly and ineffective” after initially suggesting days earlier the money would be better spent somewhere else.
~[snip]~
“So the American people, I think, see through this – they understand this is not a spontaneous caravan of vulnerable people,” he added.
As for the effectiveness of walls and barriers, they are not in dispute, especially along the porous U.S. southwestern border. For instance, a University of Illinois-Chicago study published in July found that a fence along all portions of the border where sections can be built would deter about 86,000 people from entering the U.S. illegally every three months.
“Fence construction significantly decreases the size of the likely undocumented, Mexican-born population on the U.S. side of the border and in the U.S. interior,” the study said.
As for Whitmer, her extended coronavirus business closures and lockdowns have sparked regular court fights and widespread protests from angry residents who have been forbidden from working, attending church, or engaging in other activities that are supposed to be guaranteed by the Constitution.
Comment:
‘Good for Me But Not for Thee’..... Ironically the security is to protect Whitmer from those that supposedly elected her to office, the radical Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left. Surely the good citizens of Michigan would never dispute her power over the PEOPLE.
Hmm... a deadly electrified fence.... one has to wonder if she took a tip from her STASI allies of East Germany...
Obviously after the poor governance she have given to the citizens of the State she plans on stealing the coming election for Biden and herself. The extra security will be needed when the civil war starts begins in earnest.
The State Governor's mansion does not belong to her... It belongs to the People of the State, not to Whitmer or the Democratic Party she represents....
