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Progressive women lawmakers call on Mike Shirkey to step down from Senate leadership role Lauren Gibbons, mlive.com © Nicole Hester/Nicole Hester/Mlive.com/mlive.com/Nicole Hester/Nicole Hester/Mlive.com Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey speaks during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 in Lansing. A group of women Michigan lawmakers is calling on Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey to relinquish his leadership role for his pattern of “degrading and disturbing” comments about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The Michigan Progressive Women’s Caucus said Shirkey, R-Clarklake, should step down as Senate Majority Leader Thursday, citing his remarks in a video recorded by the Hillsdale County Republican Party where he dubbed the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack a “hoax,” said he’d thought about challenging Whitmer to a fistfight and boasted that he’d “spanked” her on a number of political issues.

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