Gretchen Whitmer officially sworn in as Michigan's 49th governor
Source: Detroit Free Press
LANSING – Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took the oath of office as Michigan's 49th governor Tuesday, challenging Michiganders to overcome their partisan differences to build a better state, as she said the state's residents have done previously.
More than 2,000 people braved freezing temperatures on a gray and damp day. Rain that drenched and muddied the Capitol grounds overnight stayed away during the two-hour outdoor ceremony.
Whitmer embraced her daughters Sherry and Sydney and husband, Marc, after using a family bible to take the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Clement, a Republican nominee to the court. Officials had said Justice Richard Bernstein, a Democratic nominee, would give Whitmer the oath, but Bernstein spoke briefly and handed the task to Clement, in an apparent sign of bipartisanship.
Whitmer, an attorney and former Senate minority leader from East Lansing, campaigned on a platform of fixing "the damn roads," improving education, and cleaning up the environment, defeating Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette by nine percentage points.
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