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SUNDAYS on City Pulse • November 18, 2020 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Out of control Jan.20 can’t come soon enough, but there is neither wisdom nor common sense. still plenty of time for thousands more Michigan- On a lesser scale, we are disappointed in the ders to die from COVID-19 before President-elect response of Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wriggels- Biden takes the reins and implements a national worth. Even as COVID spins out of control in the pandemic containment strategy. As winter closes Ingham County Jail he oversees, Wriggelsworth in, coronavirus infections are rising in Michigan has declared Whitmer’s limitations on family holiday like a SpaceX rocket, making the first wave of the gatherings as unenforceable, a view shared by pandemic look like Little League batting practice. Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail. We think Intensive care units are once again bursting at the a sounder approach would be to make examples of seams. The death rate is steadily ticking upward. any large gatherings in order to discourage others By all appearances, Michigan Republicans could On a positive note, it is heartening to see not care less. Rather than keeping their shoulders Republican leaders in other states, including Ohio to the wheel and working in good faith with Gov. Gov. Mike DeWine, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb Gretchen Whitmer to stem the tide, leaders of the and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, doing the right thing House and Senate adjourned for a few weeks to protect their citizens by enacting sensible re- to go deer hunting because there was nothing strictions to contain the pandemic, including mask “urgent” on their agenda. mandates. Michigan Republicans would do well Undaunted in the face of such recalcitrant reac- to follow their lead or risk sliding even further into tionaries, Michigan’s fearless chief executive is in political irrelevancy. charge and on task, once again taking bold steps With no end in sight to a pandemic that has to contain the once again raging pandemic. No one already claimed more than 8,000 Michigan lives, wants to see restaurants closed, and the prospect the only thing we can do is to each play our part of Thanksgiving without family gatherings is almost by staying home as much as possible, masking too much to bear. But bear it we must, and for what up and keeping our distance from those who don’t reason? Because the very people who blame Whit- and won’t understand the gravity of the public mer for the pandemic’s economic devastation are health and economic crisis that continues to the ones responsible for causing it by refusing to envelop our state. comply with her life-saving emergency measures. Let’s also keep fresh in our minds until 2022 Read that sentence again. And, we suspect their pet- the scores of lives lost and untold numbers of small ulant refusal to wear a mask in public is just the tip of businesses destroyed this year because petty Repub- the iceberg. Taking their cues from our superspreader, The CP Edit lican partisans were incapable of putting people’s lives soon-to-be ex-president, we have to presume that ahead of politics. With a little help from newly vdrawn people who won’t mask up in public also engage in all legislative districts that remedy Michigan’s ridiculous manner of risky behavior, from hosting and attending Opinion gerrymandering, we can put Democrats — and com- large gatherings to eschewing social distancing. mon sense leadership —- back in charge of the state We also can’t help noticing the correlation between Chatfield both issued infantile statements decrying legislature. the Michigan Supreme Court ruling that struck down the governor’s continued lack of cooperation with the Until then, stay safe. Whitmer’s emergency powers in early October and Legislature. Evidently disappointed that the terrorist COVID-19 infections spiraling out of control immediate- plot to kidnap and kill Whitmer was stymied, legisla- ly thereafter. The ruling appears to have sent a clear tive Republicans have even launched a campaign to message to Whitmer-hating, COVID deniers across impeach her. Good luck with that. Correction A story titled “Lawsuit: Lansing cops ‘conceal facts’ after the state that they need not exercise any caution Then there is Dr. Scott Atlas, another exemplar inmate dies beneath City Hall” that appeared in the Nov. 4, because the tyrant’s rule finally has been terminated of the seemingly never-ending collection of kooks, 2020, edition of City Pulse requires a correction. Due to a reporter’s error, the reported timeline of when City Attorney with prejudice. quacks and connivers who crawl out of the Trump Jim Smiertka had first learned of Anthony Hulon’s death in The reaction of Republican legislative leaders to cesspool from time to time. A kindred spirit with Shirkey the city jail was incorrectly reported. Smiertka told the City Whitmer’s new restrictions is entirely predictable — and Chatfield, Atlas called on Michigan citizens to “rise Council that he didn’t know a lawsuit had been filed prior to its making headlines in Lansing. He later clarified that he and predictably laughable. Senate Majority Leader up” against Whitmer’s new restrictions, proving once was aware of the incident and the possibility of litigation for Mike Shirkey and outgoing House Speaker Lee again that having an advanced medical degree confers months, just not the lawsuit. Send letters to the editor on this editorial or any other topic to [email protected]. Please limit them to 250 words 6 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • November 18, 2020 LEGAL NOTICE CHARTER TOWNSHIP of LANSING Top 5 possible GOP gubernatorial The 2021 General Fund Budget and Special Fund Budgets were adopted by the Board of Trustees at a regular meeting on October 27, 2020, held electronically/virtually (via Zoom meeting identifier 231 542 1280) and are available for review in the office of the Clerk during regular office hours. candidates for 2022 Susan L. Aten, Clerk She’s been talked POLITICS he ran for governor. Just like the 10th Charter Township of Lansing about for governor so District didn’t know Lisa McClain until CP#20-289 often, it’s as if mention- she ran for Congress. The Republican ing Macomb County Party loves their self-funded executives Public Works Director (preferably a woman) who can relate to Candice Miller’s name the political winds of the times. Snyder in any speculative tapped into fiscal security. McClain gubernatorial list is a wrapped herself around Trump. John CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF LANSING festive formality. Kind James embraced patriotism. Someone of like serving cranberry sauce on else can make personal liberties a LEGAL NOTICE Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act Thanksgiving. theme and ride the wave. Application Enrollment Period And yet Republicans acknowledge 4. Looking for a grassroots-type Notice is hereby given that the Charter Township of Lansing will accept applications during a behind the scenes that the former sec- candidate? 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