That’s the most important lesson to learn from the Democrats’ aggressive campaign to enact their fake “affordable housing” bill in the closing days of the legislative session.
The result last week was passage of LD 2003 by a 78 to 51 margin (including three Republicans) in the House, and a 20 to 13 margin (with one Republican) in the Senate.
It was painful to watch the spectacle play out at the Colosseum on the Kennebec.
As you know by now, Maine First Project was the lone organizational voice calling out LD 2003 for what it is — a race-based affirmative action mandate that will be a club in the hands of DC-based attorneys with HUD — the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Don’t take my word for it; it’s right there in the bill — in Section 8 of all places!
While it’s true that the deck was stacked against GOP legislators from the beginning, that’s no excuse for their timid demeanor since this showdown began.
Try this for a change:
Pound the table metaphorically — or maybe, just maybe — ACTUALLY pound the table on behalf of the Mainers who are being stripped of their liberties and their livelihoods by the swamp critters.
The Democrats would be on the warpath, raising loud objections at every opportunity, posting angry outbursts on social media, staging protests at the Statehouse. In short, they would have made a big deal out of it. They would have made a stink. They wouldn’t have been “civil.”
It was the same story in the Senate.
NONE of the GOP legislators addressed the Left’s endgame: subsidized housing for the legions of illegal aliens who continue to pour across the southern border and board buses for Maine. Janet Mills will continue to disperse these “new Mainers” across the state, all the better to turn red legislative districts blue in future elections.
And let’s not forget Mills’ chums clapping their hands like trained seals: the country-club, Chamber of Commerce types who just love the cheap labor that’s streaming across the border.
LD 2003 is all about eradicating “white privilege” in Maine. It’s about “affirmatively furthering” Maine’s commitment to “race-conscious housing programs” (see pages 6 and 7 of the housing commission’s report).
You know what we’re talking about here: all those lily-white bastions of bigotry from Medway to Lubec to Corinna to Dover-Foxcroft. You know, those rural areas populated by Deplorable caucasian oppressors maliciously flaunting their white supremacy while they lock out the oppressed BIPOCs.
In closing…
Don’t get your hopes up too high, but there’s an outside chance Gov. Mills may veto the bill, given the strong opposition of the Maine Municipal Association. In a strictly political calculation, Mills may conclude that in a close re-election contest, she can’t afford to have the MMA alienated.
Whatever the outcome, the sad saga of the “affordable housing” scam underscores the reality that Maine’s descent into statism won’t be arrested in one or two or three election cycles. It will require much more than electing candidates with Rs after their names.
It requires recruiting and training a grassroots army of activists to be on the front lines of the culture and political wars, not just in election years, but year in and year out for as long as it takes.
From the local school board, town council, and county commission all the way to the Colosseum on the Kennebec, we are training culture warriors who will fight fire with fire and take no prisoners. We believe Maine is worth fighting for.
That’s what Maine First Project is committed to, and that’s what sets us apart. We’re in this for the long haul.
Thanks for being in the trenches with us. It means a lot to me.
Soldier on!
Together, we will recover and restore Maine to the Way Life Should Be.
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
PS:
If you don’t learn from your losses, you’re doomed to keep losing.
Democrats won this round in the Augusta swamp because they were willing to muscle their fake “affordable housing” bill through without regard to whose toes they stepped on.
Meanwhile, GOP legislators opted for collegiality, preferring the Good Sportsmanship plaque to the Championship trophy. They don’t seem to understand that their base won’t show up in November to vote for more of the same-old, same-old.