Gretchen Whitmer: “The business community saw that it was important that we…”

“I've got a daughter who's a member of the community. I see what it means when people. People don't have security in their home or in their workplace. Guess who else did? The business community saw that it was important that we codify [LGBTQ protections]. this, and they took a leap. For a while, we weren't successful, and then they kind of took a backseat. And I said, this is the moment.” (07:54–07:59)

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