"We're responsible adults and can be trusted to go out in public," said one critic.
DETROIT — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed one of the most restrictive stay-at-home orders in the country late last week in hopes of containing the coronavirus outbreak in her state — one of the hardest hit.Michiganders, many from the more conservative areas of the state, believe Whitmer's latest order went too far. They accused her of stripping them of their constitutional rights.
"The reason we started this group wasn't that we were against the quarantine. We're not," the group's founder, Garrett Soldano, a chiropractor and former Western Michigan University football player, said in a Facebook Live on Monday."We were against our very constitutional rights taken away from us."
Multiple protests against the governor are scheduled, including one where critics plan to descend on the state Capitol in Lansing and cause a ruckus — from their cars. "We are asking people to become united on this one issue — all Michiganders to say we've gone too far," he said."We're responsible adults and can be trusted to go out in public.""I've got thick skin," she said."And I'm always going to defend your right to free speech. So, I just ask that those who are protesting these orders do so in a safe manner so you don't get sick and you don't subject our first responders to risk, either.
With a national debate raging over how quickly portions of the economy can be reopened in the coming weeks or months ahead, Michigan is emerging as a possible battleground. "I think it's noticeable when you see when the governor started being talked about as a potential vice presidential nominee...the demeanor and the tone changed dramatically," state Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, a Democrat, told NBC News."So there's no question that politics had something to do with it."
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