Friday, 04 July 2025

WATCH: Democrat Governor Booed Off Stage In Hometown

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills faced boos and hecklers while speaking in her hometown of Farmington over the weekend.

“@GovJanetMills got some INTENSE heckling that included shouts of ‘We have daughters!’ and ‘Stand up for them!’ today at the Maine Moose Lottery in her hometown,” state Rep. Laurel Libby, a Republican, said.

“Stop discriminating against Maine women and girls, Governor!” she added.

WATCH:

Per Bangor Daily News:

Gov. Janet Mills was in her hometown of Farmington on Saturday to announce the winners of Maine’s annual moose hunt permit lottery, but the process became a bit testy when she encountered hecklers who booed and shouted at her.

The booing began as Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Commissioner Judy Camuso introduced the Democratic governor to the podium to start reading off names of the more than 4,000 hunters who will have the chance to hunt moose during the 2025 season that begins in September.

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Mills repeatedly stepped away from the podium and raised her hands before returning to the microphone as hecklers continued to boo her, at one point telling the crowd, “I’m not going to read any names until you quiet down.”

“We have daughters,” one member of the audience under a tent at the Farmington Fairgrounds shouted in a video shared by Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, on social media. The video was taken from the side of the stage at an angle that did not show the faces of different hecklers.

“I have five daughters,” Mills said.

“Stand up for them,” an attendee replied, as part of an apparent reference to Maine’s policies allowing transgender girls to compete in female sports that drew attention this year after President Donald Trump began targeting Maine over the matter.

“@GovJanetMills refuses to address questions about why she supports men in women’s sports — and her family’s ties to the transgender medicine industry,” The Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan said last week.

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Earlier this month, the Maine House approved legislation to ban biological males from girls’ and women’s sports.

Maine Public Radio reports:

The Maine House gave initial approval Friday night to a bill that would ban transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports after hours of emotional debate on the issue.

The measure will likely face more significant opposition in the Maine Senate, however, which voted Thursday to reject a similar prohibition on transgender athletes.

Earlier Friday, the Democratic-controlled House had rejected a series of bills that aimed to change Maine’s policy of allowing students to play on teams based on their “gender identity.” But then lawmakers voted narrowly to advance a bill, LD 233, that will prohibit schools and colleges from allowing anyone who was born male from participating in athletics programs that were “designated for females.”

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The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Dick Campbell of Orrington, said he introduced the straight-forward bill at the request of a constituent before Maine ended up in the national spotlight on the issue. Campbell said he had hoped lawmakers would work in a bipartisan fashion to address what he called “a major problem.”

“This Legislature . . . should be able to address this issue,” Campbell said. “I don’t have the solution but together we ought to be able to come up with one.”

Opponents attempted to reject the bill but failed on a 70 to 73 vote after four Democrats — Reps. Stephan Bunker of Farmington, Wayne Farrin of Jefferson, Dani O’Halloran of Brewer and David Rollins of Augusta — voted with all of the Republicans to support the bill. While supporters describe the bills as attempting to protect female athletes from unfair competition or injury, opponents portrayed the measures as promoting misguided policies that could harm vulnerable youths.


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