University of Michigan regents pass resolution asking Weiser to resign hollandsentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hollandsentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sisters calling for Weiser’s removal as chair of the Michigan Republican Party
The Daily Telegram
As women of faith whose congregations have served the people of Michigan – men and women, Republican and Democratic – for 1,084 collective years, we were deeply troubled and alarmed to hear University of Michigan Regent and Michigan Republican Party Chairman Ron Weiser refer to our state’s top three elected women officials as “witches” that the GOP’s “job now is to soften up” so that “when we have good candidates to run against them that they are ready for the burning at the stake.”
This language is not only abhorrent on its face, it poses a real and present danger to the three elected leaders and to all women in Michigan, giving bullies and abusers public license to vent their anger and vitriol on the bodies of real women in our cities, neighborhoods and State Capitol. One in three Michigan families are already impacted by domestic violence and over 100 domes
U-M faculty: Ron Weiser cannot be an effective leader in our community after comments Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press
The faculty members join a chorus of others at the university and throughout the state blasting Weiser after he recently called Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson witches who should be ready for the burning at the stake.
During an Oakland County event last week, Weiser also referenced assassination while discussing U.S. Reps. Fred Upton and Peter Meijer, both Republicans who voted in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump. All five lawmakers have faced death threats in recent months.
Top Michigan Democrat calls on Senate to pass elections bill as a counter to state Republican efforts to restrict voting
Michigan is among the battleground states that were decisive in sealing President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory where the Republican-led legislature is moving ahead with changes designed to make it harder to vote, citing former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud.
“They need less people to vote. We want more people to vote. That is what this is all about,” said Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist.
He added that the HR 1 bill is the best way to shield voters across the country from similar efforts.
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