There’s a reason why governors can’t wait to deliver their annual State of the State message. Actually it’s more than one reason.
First and foremost, it’s the only time in the year that a governor can speak to the citizenry unfiltered by the state capitol news hounds. He or she can say whatever and nobody outside the inner circle can alter what is said before it is said. Secondly governor’s can talk as long as they want. Heck former Democratic Gov. Jim Blanchard took almost 90 minutes one year to get his message out much to the chagrin of the assembled lawmakers who sat through part of their lunch hour to hear the governor go on and on.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used up about 43 minutes to deliver her message that the “State of the State is ready to rock!”
