Whitmer ignores GOP provocations, stays the course in third State of the State address

(Detroit Free Press) It has been a long year, and a hard one, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer acknowledged at the start of her third State of the State address, delivered Wednesday night to a state yet facing twin crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, and the damage the virus has wreaked on Michigan's economy.

Throughout this year, unlike any we've ever seen, Whitmer has remained disciplined, focused and on message, despite organized protests of her COVID-19 emergency orders, a murder plot engineered by domestic terrorists and a recalcitrant Legislature.

And in the last statewide poll, taken in December, she continued to score unusually high approval ratings. However many protesters thronged to the state Capitol, a majority of Whitmer's constituents has been willing to believe that she is on the right track. ............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/editorials/2021/01/28/whitmer-state-state-address-covid-19/4286404001/