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Michigan: Democrats plan to censure lawmaker who credited Trump for COVID-19 recovery
Democrats plan to censure lawmaker who credited Trump for COVID-19 recovery
By: Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News, April 23, 2020 |
Story continues below advertisementDetroit Democrats plan to vote Saturday to censure and bar any future endorsements of a Democratic lawmaker who credited President Donald Trump with advocating for the drug that she said cured her of COVID-19.
State Rep. Karen Whitsett, D-Detroit, broke protocol by meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during an April 14 meeting of COVID-19 survivors, during which she credited hydroxychloroquine for saving her life.
“Thank you for everything that you have done,” Whitsett told Trump at the meeting. “I did not know that saying thank you had a political line. … I’m telling my story and my truth, and this how I feel and these are my words.”
Karen Whitsett, center, and her husband Jason Whitsett, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with people that have recovered from COVID-19, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington.
The meeting and other comments Whitsett made prior to and during the coronavirus pandemic have landed her in hot water with the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party Organization.
The group, as first reported by Gongwer News Service, plans to vote Saturday on a resolution to censure Whitsett, a first-term lawmaker representing the 9th Michigan House District.
The admonition means she will not get the group’s endorsement for this year nor will she be able to engage in the group’s activities for the next two election cycles.
“At the end of the day, we have political systems,” said Jonathan Kinloch, chairman of the organization. “We have political parties, and political parties exist for a reason.”
“They do not belong to themselves,” Kinloch said of endorsed candidates and elected officials. “They belong to the members and precinct delegates of the Democratic Party.”
The development drew the ire of Donald Trump Jr., who tweeted Thursday: “What a joke. Remember folks, the narrative can only be against Trump and if you break those rules the left will turn on their own.”
Whitsett, meanwhile, said she plans to continue working for the district, adding that she has been delivering food and cleaning products to those in need throughout the pandemic.
“I will continue to fight for the city of Detroit and the people in Detroit who need it the most, and that is the black community,” Whitsett said. “We’re the voiceless, and I don’t care who I got to go up against to do that.
“I’m a Democrat, and I plan on continuing to be a Democrat, but they will change their ways. I have my First Amendment right, and no one will take that away from me.”
Kinloch said the party’s problems with Whitsett date back to comments she made about House Democratic leadership and the Democratic legislative caucus at large.
In February, Whisett told WWJ-AM (950) that House Democratic Leader Christine Greig of Farmington Hills was a racist because she wouldn’t consider an urban agenda for the caucus. Greig also pulled Whitsett’s communications staff because of an unfavorable vote on an early rendition of the no-fault auto reform bill, Whitsett said.
President Donald Trump listens as Karen Whitsett shares her story of recovery from COVID-19, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington.President Donald Trump listens as Karen Whitsett shares her story of recovery from COVID-19, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (Photo: Evan Vucci, AP)
A later version of the no-fault auto reform legislation received overwhelming support in the state House and was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.The resolution Detroit Democrats will vote on notes she has “misrepresented the needs and priorities” of Democratic leadership to the president and public.
The resolution also notes she’s participated in events with the Republican Women’s Federation of Michigan to express gratitude to the president.
Whitsett, the resolution said, “has repeatedly and publicly praised the president’s delayed and misguided COVID-19 response efforts in contradiction with the scientifically based and action-oriented response” from Michigan’s Democratic leadership, “endangering the health, safety and welfare of her constituents, the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan.”
Michigan State Medical Society President Dr. Mohammed Arsiwala prescribed hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic for Whitsett after she visited one of his Michigan Urgent Care clinics in Wyandotte. She had symptoms of COVID-19 and an underlying condition, he told The Detroit News.
The Trump administration has deployed about 28 million doses of hydroxychloroquine from the federal government’s Strategic National Stockpile. While hydroxychloroquine is effective at treating lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, the drug can be dangerous for people with certain heart conditions.
Jonathan KinlochOn Sunday, after Whitsett continued to make negative comments about the party and Whitmer, the 13th Congressional Democratic group asked her to come in for a “screening” of candidates for her house district. Whitsett refused, Kinloch said.
“Don’t play with us,” Kinloch said. “This is very serious when we ask to have a conversation with you and you choose not to.
“We’re not going to accept that. How they handle you in Lansing as far as the Democratic caucus that’s on them. But how we handle you back at home, that’s on us.”
Whitsett said she didn’t have time for the screening.
“I don’t have time for politics,” Whitsett said. “That’s ridiculous, during a pandemic, that they think I have time for a screening. … I have people that need me.”
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17 Comments
3 years ago
What is described is pure thuggery by Detroit’s Democrat/Black Mafia. Period. I just pray that they will not enact violence against her or her family.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jeff Ludwig
….so much for “diversity” of the Left. Diversity is only for them to blood-gen anyone who gets in their way of totalitarianism….no matter the political party, no matter the race, no matter what.
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
DEMS are showing their true colors of being totalitarian control freaks.
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3 years ago
The Democrat Party pretends to embrace the people they intend to ruin and/or rule. Get between them and the power they are after and you’ll see their true nature. They’re con artists. They’re enemies of all free people. They’re enemies of the Constitutional Republic of the USA. They’re loyal to a foreign power. If you don’t believe that yet, you will.
3 years ago
Demoncrats are truly just sickening evil.
3 years ago
Mrs. Whitsett, Stand tall in your defense of your First Amendment RIGHT. It IS shameful that the DemocRAT national COMMUNIST party CONTROLLERS will not allow FREEDOM of THOUGHT to exist.
3 years ago
Maybe she will switch parties?
3 years ago
3 years ago
Switch parties and gain Trump’s blessings for doing so and she won’t miss a step.
Remember that back during slavery it was the Democrats who fought to keep it and during Reconstruction, the Klan was their enforcement wing in much the same fashion as is the corrupt media today.
3 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
…so, we see the re-emergence of the Klan…..of course they were always there, but it took a great President like Trump to bring them out into the light of day. God, are they ever UGLY!
3 years ago
The democRATS will once again eat one of their own. Saying “Thank You” to someone you credit for saving your life should not have the consequences that she now faces. She seems like a genuinely nice person, and her actions–helping others during these trying times–clearly make her a much better person than the other 99% of democRAT politicians. Good luck Ms. Whitsett….unfortunately you WILL need it !!
3 years ago
Go fetch the hounds, we got a runner, don’t let her get too far
3 years ago
This is outlandish! Now the Nazi/Fascists are turning on their own just because she acknowledged something good that President Trump did. How can they censure her for thanking someone for help?
Maybe she should think about switching parties like Van Horn.
The hatred of the Left is starting to consume them.
3 years ago
It never fails to amaze me how ruthless the Democrat Party is…
No Freedom of Speech in Dem leadership ranks!
The party has been going down the tubes for the last 20 years…and Obama’s pledge to “fundamentally change America” put the party in overdrive!
The hate for our Nation, the freest ever, the drive to punish it, and have open borders!
Without borders, you do not have a Nation. The Dems know that. The Dem leadership promotes that.
Be a Patriot. GOD BLESS THE USA!
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3 years ago
Why stop there, Detroit Democrats. Why not go full-Nazi and make her wear an armband. The British voters were wise enough to realize the UK Labor Party was overrun with fascists and anti-semites. They wiped them out in the last election.
The American Democratic is going down the same fascist anti-semitic path.
