{"id":83414,"date":"2022-09-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83414"},"modified":"2022-09-25T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T12:32:56","slug":"is-there-a-worse-governor-anywhere-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83414","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Worse Governor Anywhere In America&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;than Gretchen Whitmer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exhibit Z-462:   Michigan, which was moving the right way on laws limiting predatory civil forfeiture (cops and prosecutors glomming onto property and cash due to <em>allegations <\/em>of drug crimes) is <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/09\/22\/michigan-rolls-back-asset-forfeiture-reform\/\">sliding rapidly backward<\/a>, as Whitmer signed a &#8220;tougher&#8221; law, enabling more robbery, easier:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Michigan previously required a criminal conviction prior to completion of forfeitures involving cash or other property worth $50,000 or less. A pair of bills that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/06\/02\/michigan-cops-rob-travelers-airports\/\">signed into law<\/a>\u00a0on May 26 lowered that ceiling to $20,000 for assets seized at airports. &#8220;Drug trafficking will not be tolerated in Michigan,&#8221; declared state Rep. Graham Filler (R\u2013DeWitt), who sponsored one of the bills. &#8220;The men and women who keep our airports secure need to have the proper authority to keep drugs and drug money out of our state\u2014and this reform gives them the tools they need.&#8221; Rep. Alex Garza (D\u2013Taylor) claimed his related bill made Michigan &#8220;a safer place,&#8221; because &#8220;drug traffickers will now think twice before trying to profit off the lives of our residents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget AOC.  Conservatives need to make <em>Il Duchesse <\/em>[1] the poster child for progressive overreach in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] I know &#8211; the feminine definite article in Italian is &#8220;La&#8221;, not &#8220;Il&#8221;.  But it it makes a better Mussolini comparison.  And what are you, <em>un biologo<\/em>, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;than Gretchen Whitmer? Exhibit Z-462: Michigan, which was moving the right way on laws limiting predatory civil forfeiture (cops and prosecutors glomming onto property and cash due to allegations of drug crimes) is sliding rapidly backward, as Whitmer signed a &#8220;tougher&#8221; law, enabling more robbery, easier: Michigan previously required a criminal conviction prior to completion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83456,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83414\/revisions\/83456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}