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Michigan governor: Husband's call about boat was just humor

by Associated Press
| May 26, 2020 2:27 PM

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer acknowledged Tuesday that her husband dropped her name in an effort to get his boat in the water for Memorial Day weekend but said it simply was a “failed attempt at humor” during a phone call with a recreation business.

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