LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel spoke at a civil rights conference in Lansing on Wednesday, addressing what she called “fake issues” that are dividing people. She said, “Drag queens are entertainment. A drag queen for every school.”

“Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says at a civil rights conference in Lansing while speaking out against what she describes as efforts to divide people.

“A drag queen for every school,” she adds.

— Craig Mauger (@CraigDMauger) June 15, 2022

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As the story took off on Twitter, Nessel backtracked the original comments, saying there were “in jest.” When Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon responded to Nessel’s drag queen comments, the attorney general fired back.

This is the most humorless take imaginable on a comment made in jest. I expect more from the star of Buddy BeBop vs the Living Dead.

Your benefactor, Betsy DeVos, has been a greater threat to school children in Michigan than drag queens have ever been. https://t.co/mdkDHxN7XU

— Dana Nessel (@dananessel) June 15, 2022

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Dixon didn’t take long to push back, asking Michigan’s top law enforcement officer to join her in criminalizing the involvement of “children in sexualized drag shows.”

Dana,

I’m calling out your party’s current efforts to normalize the sexualization of children.

And you have nothing meaningful to say.

So…

As the top law enforcement officer in Michigan, will you join me to criminalize involving children in sexualized drag shows?

Yes or no? https://t.co/53bP6lCziP

— Tudor Dixon (@TudorDixon) June 15, 2022

Dixon added, “When I am governor, schools will answer to local parents, not progressive activists, drag queens, and trans-supremacists. The days of radical activist politicians sexualizing our kids are over.”