Liz Uihlein, the billionaire heiress of Wisconsin's Uline shipping and packaging empire, is throwing her considerable political influence behind various movements aimed at trying to get the state's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to ease the state's stay-at-home order, according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"It's overhyped," Uihlein said in a statement. "And I don't wish anybody ill will. You know I don't wish that, but I think it hurts certain ages in certain places and largely in a lot of parts of the world. In the country, it's not as rampant as the press would have you make it."
Uihlein, who has called the coronavirus pandemic "overhyped," lobbied Republican state lawmakers and distributed a petition to her employees to have the governor removed.
Last Friday, two protests in the state have also sprung up calling for Evers' removal.
"We understand that the country can't reopen if the disease is not under control and hospitals are overwhelmed; however, we also have to realize that there will be no absolute, perfectly safe time to do so," Uihlein said.
Health experts, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, have cautioned reopening the country's economy too soon could jeopardize the health of people as the virus continues to spread.
"Donald Trump is not going to go into this election siding with Dr. Fauci against this Tea Party-like movement," said Charlie Sykes, a conservative anti-Trump author and broadcaster in Wisconsin. "If he thinks that this is what his base wants, he will go with them."
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