Donkeys and RINOs in Maine are one step closer to wiping out single-family housing communities once and for all.
Just before 8 o’clock last night, the Maine House of Representatives passed LD 2003, Speaker Fecteau’s assault on single-family neighborhoods in Maine.
We have one last shot to kill this Slums-to-Suburbs bill!
Please contact your state Senator as soon as you can TODAY. The Senate could take up a vote on the bill anytime from today to early next week. Let your Senator know you don’t want your neighborhood turning into something that looks like a slum in Portland. Tell your Senator you’ll be watching the vote and remember it when you vote this November.
This is so important, I’m hoping you’ll go one step further. Consider forwarding this email to at least one friend or relative who shares your views. Ask them to join you in holding lawmakers accountable.
The House vote on LD 2003 was 78 to 51, with quite a few Republicans giving the nod to Fecteau’s aggression — and 22 members absent.
Incredibly, just four Republicans actually got to their feet to speak against this awful piece of legislation. Go figure.
Without question, the best of those floor speeches was by Rep. John Andrews of Paris.
He hammered the most dangerous provision in the bill — Fecteau’s insistence on exposing Mainers to the threat of “discrimination” lawsuits filed by armies of Housing and Urban Development lawyers in the DC swamp.
If the bill passes the Senate and gets signed by the Governor, Katie bar the door.
Local communities will be subject to federal lawsuits if they don’t comply with mandates that will make our rural and suburban communities look like the worst of Portland’s crowded, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Fecteau kept that fascist provision in the bill in every one of his multiple, last-minute amendments — lengthy, complicated amendments that never saw the light of day in a public hearing.
We can’t let this power grab become law. The state Senate is our last shot at keeping the bill off the Swamp Queen’s desk.
Please contact your state Senator as soon as you can TODAY, as we don’t know when the Senate will take up the bill. Let your Senator know how dangerous and destructive this bill is, and that you will remember in November how every Senator voted.
In fact, if you would forward this post to even just one friend or relative who shares your views, that would be great. Ask them to hold their Senator’s feet to the fire.
If we lose this battle, you can say goodbye to single-family residential neighborhoods. And we will all be saying hello to subsidized Section 8 housing projects in rural and suburban Maine.
“The projects” — shorthand for crowded, crime-ridden, government-subsidized apartment complexes — will begin springing up from Bethel to Machias, and from Bridgton to Mattawamkeag. They will be just like Chicago’s “projects,” just on a smaller scale, and with a Maine twist.
Can you say, “asylum seeker”?
Many of the tenants will be border-crashing, non-citizen, “new Mainers” (aka illegal immigrants) who continue to make their way from Texas to Portland.
That’s the dirty little secret the swamp critters in Augusta dare not say out loud. Their frenzy to pass this bill is driven by their vision of re-settling thousands more illegal immigrants in Maine.
That’s a good deal for the cheap-labor lobby at the state and local Chambers of Commerce, but it’s a raw deal for life-long Mainers.
I know we’ve asked a lot of you this legislative session.
Together, you and I have at least temporarily disabled aggressive efforts to discourage concerned parents from addressing school boards. And together we’ve won over a lot of Republicans who originally supported the Slums-to-Suburbs proposal.
I won’t lie to you — scoring a victory in the Senate will be difficult. But we do have a shot in this volatile midterm election year. Do vulnerable Senators really want to answer on election day for giving the green light to the Left’s assault on the suburbs?
Let’s find out!
Thank you for all the work you do to restore Maine to The Way Life Should Be.
Sincerely,
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project
PS:
If LD 2003 or any of its spin-off bills are enacted, Maine will have the most extreme “fair housing” statutes in the country — worse than California’s and Oregon’s experiments with aggressive enforcement of statewide housing mandates.
Make no mistake: the radical Left’s commitment to providing subsidized housing to illegal immigrants is what’s driving this legislative juggernaut at the Statehouse.