From Rep. Andy Levin:
Michigan is so lucky to have a leader like the LG in this moment. It quickly became clear last year that COVID-19 was disproportionately infecting and killing people of color, so Gov. Whitmer asked the LG to chair a new Coronavirus Taskforce on Racial Disparities. Thanks in part to the Taskforce’s work, the number of deaths in the Black community came down dramatically over the course of 2020. Now the LG’s program of addressing underlying causes and conditions leading to those disparities is the model that the new Biden administration is using to address this issue across the nation.
Meanwhile, the LG has remained so accessible and helpful to my constituents during the pandemic, coming to multiple town halls to answer questions about state programs and protocols and taking part in a youth conference I put on for MLK Day.
If you can’t tell, I’m a massive fan of our LG and I’m always happy to talk to him about the issues facing our state and the bold solutions we can implement to fix them.