Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants everyone to know “she’s a New York Times Best Seller,” although her new book True Gretch disappeared from the list faster than her forgotten campaign promises.

“She’s a New York Times Best Seller,” Whitmer posted to X in third person on Monday, along with a picture of herself posing with True Gretch in front of the newspaper’s headquarters in New York City.

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— Gretchen Whitmer (@truegretch) July 29, 2024

On July 16, The Midwesterner noted that despite Michigan’s 49^th governor relentlessly promoting her “slim” book with large type and wide spacing on late-night shows, book signings, social media, and elsewhere, it had yet to appear on the New York Times’ famed best sellers list, or the Publishers Weekly Bestsellers List.

The next day, it debuted at number four on the Times’ hardcover nonfiction list, before fading back into obscurity.

By the time Whitmer posted to X on Monday, True Gretch was nowhere to be found, and it hasn’t returned since. The governor’s book has yet to make an appearance on the Publishers Weekly list.

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With a retail price of $26.99, Whitmer’s memoir published by Simon & Schuster “shares the lessons in resilience that steered her through some of the most challenging events in Michigan’s history, such as the Covid-19 pandemic a five-hundred-year flood, the rise of domestic terrorism, and the fierce fight to protect reproductive rights,” according to its Amazon description.

It’s currently on sale through the online giant for 34% off with free shipping, and there’s plenty in stock.

Amid speculation Whitmer was being considered a potential vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris’ presidential bid, True Gretch briefly reached number 14 on Amazon’s “Top 20 Most Sold & Most Read Books of the Week” last week, but has since disappeared from that list as well.

There is, however, one book from a politician that has dominated best sellers lists for nearly two years: Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, which has spent 90 weeks on the New York Times list, and currently sits at number one on both the New York Times and Publishers Weekly rankings.

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“The Yale Law School graduate and 2024 Republican presidential nominee looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood,” according to the Times descriptor.

Vance’s book, which was adapted into a star-studded feature film by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard in 2020, helped to propel him to his Senate seat in the 2022 elections, making him the second youngest member of the upper chamber. The former U.S. Marine veteran earlier this month accepted former President Donald Trump’s nomination to be his running mate at the Republican National Convention, where Vance asserted liberal policies have destroyed the middle class.

Meanwhile in Michigan, Whitmer has faced criticism for failing to fulfill her campaign promises to “fix the damn roads” and prevent large corporate water withdraws she condemned as a candidate in 2019.

Six years later, Michigan’s 2023 Roads & Bridges Annual Report makes it clear “roads are deteriorating faster than the agencies can repair them” despite Whitmer’s best efforts.

“Without additional and consistent long-term investment, the percentage of roads in poor condition will continue to increase as the increasing construction cost outpaces the ability to fix them,” the report reads.

Whitmer has also inked a development deal with a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party to build an electric vehicle battery component plant in Mecosta County that will draw 715,000 gallons of ground water per day. The agreement with CCP Gotion, which comes with about $800 million in taxpayer subsidies through negotiations shielded by nondisclosure agreements, equates to about 139,000 more gallons of water pulled from the ground daily than a nearby Nestle water facility she vowed to shut down in 2019.

Now, the environmentalists Whitmer courted to put her in the governor’s mansion contend they’ve heard nothing from the governor about her promise to crack down on the corporate water withdraws, while bills to increase groundwater protections and oversight have languished in the legislature under Democratic control.

“She’s basically kind of ignored us for the last six years. Which is sad,” Peggy Case, board president of the nonprofit Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, told ProPublica. “I mean, she didn’t ignore us before the election.”