There’s no way to put lipstick on the pig that was the 131st Maine Legislature, which mercifully expired last week. It was an altogether ugly spectacle from beginning to end.
As if we needed a reminder, the session from Hades confirmed that restoring Maine to The Way Life Should Be won’t be quick or easy. It won’t happen in one or two or even three election cycles. And it will be messy.
Maine state government has been on a left-wing progressive trajectory for over a half-century, and it’s only become more extreme since Janet Mills was elected and re-elected with Democrat majorities in both legislative chambers.
Gov. Millstone and her minions have fully embraced transgender ideology, and now they’re rushing to transform Maine into a sanctuary state for Dr. Frankenstein’s gender-bender madness.
The swamp critters shoveled another $21 million into Maine’s dysfunctional K-12 indoctrination centers with zero accountability for declining student performance across the board for the past four decades.
Without any mention in Maine’s Fake News outlets, the legislature on its last day in session authorized an alien resettlement agency in the executive branch of state government, to attract 75,000 more illegals to settle here over the next 5 years. Passage of LD 2167 was a top priority for the cheap-labor lobbyists at the state and regional Chambers of Commerce. The new bureaucracy will be plugged into a George Soros-funded network of left-wing nonprofits to provide free lawyers for illegal immigrants facing deportation.
We have our work cut out for us, don’t we?
Let’s take the Left’s wretched excesses as a call to action, and re-double our efforts to rouse the slumbering giant to a full awareness of what’s in store for the next generation of Mainers if we continue down the path we’re on.
Join like-minded Mainers on Saturday, May 11th from 9 am to noon in Kennebunk for a free Activist Training session. This invitation-only event will focus on grassroots organizing at the local school district level. Our local chapters of Mainers for Excellence in Education, under the direction of executive director Zach Gelpey, will top the agenda. Click HERE to let me know if you’re interested in attending. Seating is limited, so don’t delay.
We will also be joined by Maine First Project’s legal counsel, Jack Baldacci, with the Augusta-based Steve Smith Trial Lawyers. Jack will provide a brief review of the case law on K-12 bathroom policies, and the prospects for protecting the fundamental privacy rights of female students. We have set aside time for Q&A, so come prepared with your questions.
I’ll be briefing attendees on the path forward in the wake of LD 2167 — Mills’ alien resettlement agency — being tucked into the supplemental budget and passed in the wee hours of the morning before adjournment.
In the meantime, don’t despair.
Recall the words of New England’s premiere practitioner of confrontational politics, Sam Adams:
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
