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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's dogs are featured in a fundraising ploy to solicit donations to the "Fight like Hell PAC."The bizarre plea for donations, which does not appear on the timeline of tweets on her @gretchenwhitmer X account, reads, "hello! Frends!! we are. KEVIN!!! and. Doug!!! Our HUMAN!!! is the GOVERNOR of Michigan!! our HUMAN works.. hard for job! none. of this would be paw-sible!! without your... support! will YOU throw us a bone!! (or TWO) before.. the big DEADLINE?" The post then adds, "–the goodest boys!! of michigan!!!"'When they write the textbook on cringe, this will be in chapter one.'A graphic features a photo of Whitmer with her dogs and includes comments such as "HUMAN! seems. worried about FIGHT!! like hell pac.. end of quarter... fundraising deadline. HUMAN! doesn't know. if team will reach. fundraising goal... we dont like... HUMAN to worry.. so PLEASE!! help HUMAN reach. goal by DONATING!! to FIGHT like hell pac TODAY!!"The graphic links to a page where people can donate to the "Fight Like Hell PAC.""When they write the textbook on cringe, this will be in chapter one," Michele Blood quipped."If I was actually funny I'd say 'Michigan has gone to the dogs' But instead I'm just wondering who approved this ad campaign for the Governor. Holy Moly," Daniel Burke wrote.Whitmer apparently has an X profile for her dogs. A "Star Wars" themed tweet on May 4th reads, "seeing this. post. you are.." The post adds, "giving us… TREATS!!!!! you will."The governor responded to the tweet, writing, "The force is strong with this one. Treats you will get, my little Padawans."Whitmer has been serving as Michigan's governor since 2019.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A donut shop owner said that he fought back against a tip jar thief because he was fed up with criminals taking away his livelihood. Niko Chea told KNBC-TV that he has operated Niko's Donuts in Redondo Beach for more than three years and has been robbed five times already. The latest episode was a man trying to steal from his tip jar, but Chea said he refused to back down. 'Niko just kicked his butt out and took the money back.' “If someone was in need, I always give them a donut or two. I don't mind that at all. But when you come and steal, that's a whole different story,” Chea said. Chea was fixing a sandwich when he saw the man grabbing money from the jar on his surveillance video. He rushed out to confront him. The video that was obtained and published by KNBC on its YouTube channel shows him grab the money back from the man and shove him out of the shop as stunned bystanders watch. “My first reaction was just to kind of lunge and get everything back from him,” he said. "Get out of here, bro!" he yells on the video. Chea said it was only a couple of dollars, but he took action to protect the business he had built up by working 11-hour days. “I love this community,” he added. “Everybody that comes in here is almost like family.” He says he has been robbed five times at the shop, including one time when people tried to break into his shop at 5:30 a.m. while he was still inside prepping the donuts on Dec. 30. “If I didn’t yell, they would’ve come in,” he explained. The robbers ran off with the cash register and a few hundred dollars in that incident. Customers found out about the incident and have come in to the shop to tip Chea and show their support. “When one person's trying to make a business go, a small business, it just breaks my heart to see anybody try to take that away from them,” said Pam Sunder, a donut customer. “It also scares me that we've got so many crazy people running around doing this kind of stuff, so I was really pleased to see that Niko just kicked his butt out and took the money back," she added. Niko's Donuts can be found on 190th Street and on Instagram. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Residents of a homeowner's association in Florida forced the entire board to resign after they voted to make each townhome owner pay an extra $60,000 special assessment. The HOA sent letters to residents of the Villas of Carillon in Feather Sound telling them that they would have to come up with $60,000 in order to fully fund the maintenance accounts required by the state. 'There will be a lot of people that lose their home ...'Florida has increased funding requirements after the harrowing collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside in 2021 in order to make sure multi-family residential complexes have enough money to pay for proper maintenance. However, there is a dispute about whether those requirements apply to Villas of Carillon and whether the HOA board needed to make such a massive request from the 165 townhome owners. "There is a difference between being 100% funded and funding your reserve requirements for the upcoming fiscal year 100%," said Patricia Staebler, a certified reserve specialist based in Sarasota, to WTSP-TV. "I've been doing this for 15 years. In my entire reserve specialist career, I have not seen an association which is 100% funded," she added. According to her reading of the law, the HOA was not required to demand 100% of the funding up front from the owners. "Nobody needs to be 100% funded, that is overkill. And again, that is not the intent of the law," explained Staebler. In addition to that confusion, the new rule applies to buildings with three stories or higher and may not apply to the townhomes at Villas of Carillon, which are only two stories tall. On Thursday, more than a hundred owners filled a Hilton ballroom and forced the HOA to postpone the vote for the assessment based on a technicality in the rules. That evening, they received an email indicating that the entire HOA board had resigned. Had the assessment been voted in, some owners said they might have had to sell their homes. “There will be a lot of people that lose their home either they have to sell or they can't make these payments. They'll have a lien put on their house, foreclosures. I'm concerned about the overall community,” said Tammy Rodeffer, an owner, to WTSP. Feather Sound is a census-designated area in Pinellas County of about 3,600 people. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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