Gov. Millstone’s bipartisan initiative to create an alien resettlement agency in the executive branch of state government continues to ooze its way through the sausage-making machinery at the Statehouse this week.
LD 2167, “An Act to Develop Maine’s Economy and Strengthen Its Workforce by Establishing an Office of New Americans,” is scheduled for a work session tomorrow, Tuesday, February 6th at 2 pm before the State and Local Government Committee in Room 214 of the Cross State Office Building.
The committee heard over four hours of testimony last week and received more than 100 items of written testimony. Tomorrow afternoon is the “work session,” when legislators on the committee will discuss the bill and likely vote on it.
I fully expect LD 2167 to win a party-line vote of “ought to pass” in committee. From there it will head to the House of Representatives for debate and possibly floor amendments.
I’m writing today to ask you to contact your state Rep to ask for a NO vote when LD 2167 comes before the House. That vote could happen next week — or next month. The timing is totally at the discretion of Madam Speaker.
To find your legislator’s home phone number, click HERE. For their mobile phone number and private email address, enter their name HERE.
My advice is to keep your remarks brief, polite, and to the point. And if you’re so inclined, you should tell your Rep this bill is a deal-breaker for you. Under no circumstances would you ever vote for a candidate who had any part in creating a new magnet to attract illegal immigrants to settle in Maine at taxpayer expense.
For talking points, check out the testimony I delivered at the public hearing HERE, and the testimony of Maine First Project’s executive director Zach Gelpey HERE. Sadly, no other conservative organization presented testimony either in person or online.
If enacted, Janet Mills’ proposed “Office of New Americans” (ONA) legislation will plug Maine into a network of George Soros-funded open-borders organizations with swarms of Leftist lawyers ready to defend illegal immigrants at risk of deportation.
Here’s how our friends at the Federation for American Immigration Reform describe the ONA network:
“ONA makes no distinction between legal and illegal immigration because, as you know, everyone is simply a “New American.” But this is hardly surprising given that ONA is an arm of the American Immigration Council, which is the policy arm of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, all heavily funded by the open-borders and amnesty-supporting Foundation to Promote Open Society, founded by left-wing billionaire George Soros.”
Given these facts, can somebody please explain to me why Sen. Rick Bennett and Rep. Amanda Collamore — both Republicans — agreed to co-sponsor this steaming pile of compost?
Why are Bennett and Collamore snuggling up with George Soros?
Are they stupid, or do they think their constituents are stupid? Or both?
If you haven’t already, it’s not too late to contact them and ask that they withdraw their sponsorship of LD 2167.
You can reach Rep. Collamore at (207) 679-7305 and at amanda.collamore@legislature.maine.gov. or collamoreforme@gmail.com
You can reach Sen. Bennett at (207) 592-3200 and at rick@rickbennett.org or richard.bennett@legislature.maine.gov
Please keep me posted on what you hear from them.
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
