Dale Zorn Should Resign

Sonya Lewis, MD, MPH
3 min readMay 1, 2020

Last week, just days after protesters, some carrying guns and signs emblazoned with Nazi symbols, flocked to Michigan’s Capitol to oppose Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID-19 stay at home orders, Michigan State Senator, Dale Zorn (R-Ida) wore a face mask on the Senate floor that appeared to depict the Confederate flag. When asked about his face covering, Mr. Zorn bizarrely claimed that his wife, who made the mask, told him that it actually resembled the Tennessee or Kentucky state flag. Despite this “clarification” Mr. Zorn clearly knew in advance that his mask could be offensive, telling WLNS, “I told my wife it…

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