Michigan Democratic state Rep. Karen Whitsett, who has criticized colleagues for being profoundly “disconnected” from voters, announced this week she would no longer be caucusing with her party.
Whitsett cited her “close” relationship with Matt Hall, the incoming Republican leader in the state House, as her reason for exiting the caucus, saying she worried about being accused of leaking information to the GOP lawmaker.
“I don’t want anyone thinking that if, by happenstance, someone said something in the Dem caucus, and the speaker just happens to mention something similar to that — I don’t want anyone thinking that I told him anything and vice versa,” the rogue Democrat told the Washington Examiner.
During a phone interview Friday, Whitsett spoke warmly of working with Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump to advance an agenda touching issues…
