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‘Bad Leadership’: Detroit Businessman Blasts Gretchen Whitmer’s Economic Policies

by Collin Anderson

Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer’s “bad leadership” on the economy has “decimated” the state’s small business environment, a Detroit businessman who launched a campaign to unseat the Democrat said.

“The small business climate in Michigan has been decimated. The governor chose winners and losers, and she supported national corporations over the people of Michigan when she did her lockdowns,” Detroit businessman Kevin Rinke told the Washington Free Beacon. “Small businesses continue to struggle to ramp back up. … They need employers, and their structure has been altered dramatically because of the governor’s subsidization of unemployment.”

Rinke, a former auto dealership owner, announced his own Republican gubernatorial campaign Monday, pledging to “put an end to Governor Whitmer’s assault on our values and our way of life” in 2022. He has already centered his campaign on the economy, education, and law and order—a strategy that mirrors the GOP playbook in Virginia, where Republican Glenn Youngkin delivered a shock upset over Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe…


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