A stack of executive orders

I had mentioned that Michigan’s new Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued a stack of executive orders in her first days in office. I specifically mentioned the one that protects LGBT workers. Dawn Wolfe of Daily Kos has part of the list.

* The first one requires employees to immediately report threats to public health, safety, and welfare. This is to prevent another mess like the Flint water crisis.

* Requiring pay equity for women working in her administration.

* New ethics rules – don’t accept gifts, can’t have an outside job that conflicts with government duties, can’t have business transactions that benefit anyone other than the state, can’t use confidential state info for personal gain.

* Direct the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget to do more business with “geographically disadvantages” businesses.

* That LGBT protection order drops exemptions for religious organizations. This one was signed at the Affirmations LGBT community center in Ferndale. I wonder how that will play out with Catholic adoption agencies that refuse to let LGBT couples adopt.

* Sent requests to the new Attorney General to review some of the bills passed in the lame duck session, such as the one that created yet another school ranking system and one that authorizes an oil line across the Strait of Mackinac to be rerouted through a tunnel yet to be built.

I like her style. Alas, she faces a GOP majority in both houses of the legislature.