{"id":525460,"date":"2021-05-19T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525460"},"modified":"2021-05-19T11:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:51:05","slug":"whitmer-may-face-multiple-investigations-over-her-private-flight-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whitmer-may-face-multiple-investigations-over-her-private-flight-to-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitmer May Face Multiple Investigations Over Her Private Flight To Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhitmer-may-face-multiple-investigations-over-her-private-flight-to-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gretchen-Whitmer-3.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Michigan State Legislature may launch separate investigations into Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s private flight to Florida in March.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer took a charter flight, almost entirely paid for by a nonprofit, to Florida in March to visit her ailing father weeks before warning Michigan residents about traveling to the southern state. Republican state Rep. Steve Johnson, chairman of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, said Monday he is considering an investigation into how Whitmer\u2019s charter flight was paid for.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is considering drafting a letter full of questions to the Whitmer administration and, based on the response, will decide his course of action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they refuse to [answer the questions], maybe, at that point, we will do hearings. It\u2019s definitely something in consideration,\u201d Johnson said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/05\/17\/michigan-oversight-chairman-hearings-whitmer-flights-possible\/5128700001\/\">The Detroit News<\/a>. \u201cI would like to give the administration the opportunity to answer questions before we go down that road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FAA is considering a probe into Whitmer\u2019s flight for a different reason. The company she chartered her flight through, Detroit-based Air Eagle, does not have certification to be chartering flights. The FAA noted that it\u2019s to early \u201cto conclude that a violation of federal aviation regulations occurred\u201d in a Monday statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FAA is looking into the matter,\u201d the FAA said.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s flight was paid for almost entirely by the nonprofit Michigan Transition 2019. According to The Detroit News: \u201cThe group spent $27,521 on travel over the first 14 days of May, according to a voluntary disclosure, which apparently covers the March flights, two months earlier. The same disclosure shows Whitmer paid the nonprofit $855 for her seat on the flights \u2014 3% of the total price tag for the flights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer stayed in Florida from March 12 through March 15, ostensibly to visit her father who suffers from chronic illness. She took the trip as a new variant of COVID-19 was beginning to spread in the state, and warned Michigan residents about traveling to Florida early the next month because of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to ongoing security and public health concerns, we made a decision to use a chartered flight for this trip,\u201d the governor\u2019s chief of staff, JoAnne Huls, wrote in a memo explaining the trip. \u201cThe governor\u2019s flight was not a gift, not paid for at taxpayer expense and was done in compliance with the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer, who oversaw heavy-handed lockdown measures and restrictions over her state, has continued to experience blowback from her trip out-of-state. On Wednesday, Republican state Sen. Tom Barrett is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/05\/19\/bill-would-require-governor-notify-lawmakers-when-leaving-michigan\/5161858001\/\">introduce<\/a> legislation that would force Whitmer to notify the legislature any time she travels out of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens if the governor has left, decides not to tell anybody and we have a real emergency arise?\u201d Barrett asked. \u201cWe just need to know who is fulfilling the role of governor of the state at any given time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-gretchen-whitmer-used-private-jet-borrowed-from-billionaires-to-travel-to-florida-during-covid-crisis3\">Report: Gretchen Whitmer Used Private Jet Borrowed From Billionaires To Travel To Florida During COVID Crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Michigan State Legislature may launch separate investigations into Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s private flight to Florida in March.Whitmer took a charter flight, almost &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278550,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gretchen-Whitmer-3.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Whitmer May Face Multiple Investigations Over Her Private Flight To Florida","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gretchen-Whitmer-3.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Whitmer May Face Multiple Investigations Over Her Private Flight To Florida","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}