HIGH CRIME: Watch Gretchen Whitmer staff admit Senate special election delay is political

There is no high­er crime for an elect­ed offi­cial than to use a pub­lic office for polit­i­cal pur­pos­es.

But that is what Gretchen Whit­mer’s staff has admit­ted the gov­er­nor is doing by refus­ing to call a spe­cial elec­tion to fill a State Sen­ate seat.

At Sag­i­naw area “town hall” event, her own staff admit­ted as much.

They claimed the rea­son Whit­mer has­n’t called a spe­cial elec­tion more than two months after the seat was vacat­ed was because of “an issue with the Michi­gan Demo­c­rat Par­ty” and then said they could­n’t speak to the issue because it was a “polit­i­cal con­ver­sa­tion.”

Call­ing a spe­cial elec­tion to fill a vacant leg­isla­tive seat for 270,000 Michi­gan­ders isn’t a “polit­i­cal con­ver­sa­tion.” It’s a basic duty that should require absolute­ly no spe­cial con­sid­er­a­tions what­so­ev­er. The elec­tion should be called at the first oppor­tu­ni­ty, peri­od.

Whit­mer isn’t call­ing an elec­tion because she is afraid a Repub­li­can will win the seat. There’s noth­ing more to it than that. It’s a gross abuse of pow­er, and an impeach­able offense.