Blue-state guvs like Cuomo, Whitmer in a race to the authoritarian bottom

But last week’s hypocrisy, which led Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer, to send Whitmer a letter Monday begging her not to “be a stranger” and wishing to “see you again soon,” is only the latest example of her contempt for the people of Michigan. Say what you want about Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes, but at least he changed his mind after the predictable consequences of introducing active COVID infections into these dens of misery and infection were revealed. Meanwhile, when the Michigan state legislature sent Whitmer a bill that would have made it illegal to do the same thing in our state, she vetoed it out of spite for the GOP majority. Her painfully insincere argument was that treating COVID patients in empty facilities rather than in old-folks’ homes would be — you can’t make this up — a violation of their privacy rights. Needless to say, Whitmer’s veto had nothing to do with science. Neither did her absurd and fortunately short-lived ban on the sale of paint and garden gnomes or her decree that it was illegal to visit one’s own vacation home, or her decision to open up the northern half of the state in time for her own planned vacation, where her husband attempted to jump the line to have his boat docked in an upscale marina.