Chalk up another victory for Maine parents and taxpayers in the battle to restore some semblance of sanity in our failing government-run K-12 schools.
The scene of this culture-war showdown was the town of Greene in MSAD (Maine School Administrative District) 52, comprised of Turner, Greene, and Leeds in Androscoggin County.
Board member Anthony Shostak was first elected in 2022, unseating a long-time incumbent. During his three years of service, Anthony has been an outspoken advocate for restoring academic excellence and protecting students from the porn pushers and transgender cultists.
Shostak certainly hasn’t shied away from controversy since taking office. He submitted testimony two years ago on a bill in the legislature to repeal the statute that allows Maine schools to disseminate obscene material to minors.
Here’s an excerpt from Anthony’s testimony:
“I had to review a book challenged in our district. This book contains the sexually explicit image of one person’s [*******] firmly planted in someone else’s mouth. That sentence bears repeating: It is as graphic and explicit as the hardest of hardcore pornography. Allowing school librarians to place this in the hands of children is an egregious lapse of judgment.”
Well now, the teachers’ union bosses weren’t about to tolerate that sort of blasphemy. How dare Mr. Shostak challenge the wisdom of the “experts” who select the reading material on the shelves of school district libraries? Didn’t he get the memo?
Kiddie porn, gay porn, and transgender supremacy are essential elements of the new state religion in Maine’s public schools. No dissent by a heretical school board member will be tolerated by the cult’s high priests and priestesses.
But the cultists had a problem in Greene.
The town is overwhelmingly Republican, and GOP voters tend to oppose the dumbing-down and gender-bender indoctrination that’s the rule rather than the exception in Maine’s public schools.
So the teachers’ union bosses recruited a woke, far-left candidate who posed as a MAGA Republican! No kidding. Her allies used social media to falsely depict her as a conservative.
But the challenger’s stealth campaign failed, due in large measure to the team Anthony Shostak put together, not to mention his own persistence and perseverance on the campaign trail.
Maine First Project’s generous donors enabled us to blanket the district with a mailer that landed in mailboxes during the last week of the campaign:
We were happy to help defend a school board seat that deep-pocketed union bosses were hell-bent on flipping.
Stay tuned.
Next June, we look to play offense in the MSAD 52 district. Two seats currently occupied by loony leftists are up for grabs, one in Greene and one in Leeds.
If you have a friend or relative in either of those towns who might be interested in stepping up to the challenge, let me know.
We’re here to help restore Maine to The Way Life Should Be, and that starts at the grassroots level in local school districts across the state.
Best Regards,
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project