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Here's something that might be of interest to Joe Biden's vetting squad.

News reports have Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's husband pulling the Don't You Know Who I Am card with a vacation boat dock worker in the middle of this pandemic that has killed thousands

of people in his state. The Detroit news reports that a boat dock worker posted on Facebook that

Mark Mallory, Whitmer's husband, tried to get his boat in the water. And when he was rebuffed,

he said, well, I'm the husband to the governor. Will that make a difference? Dude, your wife is the governor of

the state and is in the mix to be vice president of the United States. And you're trying to

strong arm a boat dock operator in the middle of a deadly pandemic when your wife again. The governor

has been the face of the stay at home stay safe talk? Also worth stopping here for a second, the governor's

spokesperson is not denying this. She's just saying that they're not going to respond to online

allegations. That's almost as good as a confirmation. And in London, Dominic Cummings, the top eight

to Boris Johnson in London has spent the last several days explaining why he drove more than

260 miles to his parents' house in Durham before

coming down with COVID-19. That would be against the guidelines issued by Johnson. He said he was

trying to ensure his child had care if he and his wife were ill with the virus. The New York Times

editorial board has wrapped the Senate for taking a vacation this week, which is Memorial Day Week,

one week after the House was out.

The House returns this week for a couple days. Also flagging this for Team Pelosi and the Democratic

leadership, the New York Times Ed board says the relief package passed by the House is a sprawling

jumble of measures. It was not intended as a serious legislative blueprint so much as a

maximal opening bid in a high-stakes

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