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LANSING A nonprofit corporation paid most of the $27,521 cost of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s contentious private plane trip to visit her father, her office said Friday.
Whitmer used her personal funds to pay the $855 cost of her seat, according to a report Whitmer s office released. That was calculated as the comparable cost of a first-class ticket, spokeswoman Tiffany Brown told the Free Press.
Friday s disclosures followed weeks of criticism of Whitmer for refusing to say when she left the state to visit her father, Richard Whitmer, during the coronavirus pandemic, at a time Michigan residents were being cautioned about travel.