Some county sheriffs are refusing to enforce Half-Whitmer’s idiotic orders.
[Update a while later]
It figures that Michigan was one of the first states to see protests. Well, it has one of the worst governors.
[Friday-morning update]
China is impressed with Michigan’s arbitrary totalitarian policies.
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Michiganders don’t take well to michigas regulations.
I venture Illinois comes in a close second in the race to the bottom.
Oh yeah, I “raise you” ‘Sconsin, where the April 7 election went ahead as insisted upon until it wasn’t but it went ahead anyway because Federal, State and US Supreme Court got involved, but the rolling lockdown is continued to May 26, and craft stores are now permitted to make home deliveries so residents can fashion their own face masks out of the fluff and fabric sold by those stores.
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. Does anyone notice a pattern here? Bueller? Anyone?
While I agree with these Sheriffs, I do worry that this follows along the same path that some jurisdictions refused to enforce the ICE laws regarding illegal immigrants.
Her rules are arbitrary and completely contrary to science or even common sense (ie political), but the sheriffs should tell her that directly through their leaders/union.
A sheriff should communicate through leaders/union?
The usual system is that each county in a state has an elected official called the Sheriff. Federal government-state government-county government are the three levels that covers all of the territory, at least in the Continental US. Mayors have a lot of influence, but cities do not include everybody whereas everybody is part of one or another county.
The county I reside in has “at the top” the Dane County Executive, the Dane County District Attorney, and the Dane County Sheriff. They constitute the local delegation of authority from the State of Wisconsin.
The Sheriff oversees a small army of Deputy Sheriffs, but the Sheriff is the top law-enforcement officer below the Governor.
By the way, our last Governor came into office from being a County Executive in Milwaukee.
I notice that the four counties in question form a contiguous strip that constitutes almost half the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan. Perhaps the sheriffs of additional Michigan counties will also chime in now that these initial four have opened the ball, so to speak. As a native of Delta County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I was chagrined that no U.P. county sheriffs were among those signing this initial letter.