DETROIT (WWJ) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has been catching flack for a tweet she sent and then deleted on Sunday.
Nessel, attending the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Detroit on Sunday, tweeted a picture of herself with two people she said were strangers.
“I don’t know these people. But when you get offered a shot of whisky during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Detroit, you take it!”
The tweet was deleted, but when someone sent her a screenshot of it, with a caption that included “r-e-s-p-e-c-t,” she replied Monday morning with a new tweet that stirred some people on social media.
“If you aren’t willing to have at least 1 shot of Jameson at the Detroit St. Patrick’s Day Parade, you are: under age, driving, a recovering alcoholic, Muslim or Mormon or Doing it totally wrong.”
“Come at me, people.”
Many people criticized the AG in the Twitter replies, accusing her of being unprofessional. Others pointed out there were plenty of other reasons to not take a shot from a stranger. As the state's top law enforcement official, many felt it was a bad look for her, while there were others who defended her.
The Director of the Michigan Freedom Fund raised concerns about Nessel’s “judgment and sobriety” and pointed out it was not the first time the AG was in the news for alcohol-related headlines. Nessel was helped out of the stadium after having too much to drink at the Michigan-MSU game last fall.
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