Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) would not answer questions Thursday about one of her appointees involved in another scandal.
Whitmer was leaving an event in Grand Rapids when she was asked if the former director of the Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), Steve Gray, “would return his $86,000 worth of hush money.”
The governor rushed to her car while an unidentified staffer ran interference:
🚨WATCH: @GovWhitmer refuses to address growing calls for her Unemployment Director, Steve Gray, to return the taxpayer funded $86,000 hush money payment that she gave him🚨 pic.twitter.com/75LQ04Dhi9
— Michigan Rising Action (@MIRisingAction) July 15, 2021
The UIA has been plagued by computer problems and other issues as Michiganders, unemployed due to Whitmer’s lockdown response to the pandemic, sought relief.
State Rep. Steve Johnson (R), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement announcing an investigation into the scandal – READ MORE
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