Maine’s state legislator voted on Thursday evening about her biennial budget, but the session was delayed by a long -term debate about the inclusion of transgenderatleet and the censorship of the Republican representative. Laurel Libby.
Libby, which was censored by Maine’s Democratic majority and speaker Ryan Fecteau For a social media post that identified a minor Transatleet, she proposed various changes to the state budget via a Maas in the legislative policy of the state.
Libby submitted 10 floors on Tuesday on the budget Tuesday for the deadline to do this, which is not prevented by a censorship. So, Libby could speak and present those changes during the Thursday session. One of those changes was not related to the budget, but was a proposal to keep trans -athletes from girls sports.
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However, when Libby spoke to present her changes, several Democrats protested, who make a debate with Republican representatives.
“During that four -minute presentation process, there was eventually a floor debate … between the Republicans and Democrats with regard to my censorship. So there was essentially a second mood with regard to the censorship, who are silent the dedication of the Democrats to silence my voice and my voice,” Libby said.
The Maine State House at Dawn, January 3, 2024, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
In addition to Libby’s proposal to prohibit trans -athletes from girls’ sports, she proposed several budget accounts that would have reduced taxes and government spending. These proposals include a withdrawal of a tax on solar energy, a withdrawal of the free community college and a withdrawal of a recent wage tax of 1%.
But Libby’s amendments were not even considered, and Democrats moved to postpone the changes for an indefinite period of time.
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“I was unable to talk to them, to argue and insist on the advantage that they would bring Maine people,” Libby said.
In the end, the budget that assumed did not include Republican input. The Maine house approved the $ 11.3 billion expenditure plan with a vote of 74-67 along festive lines. The Senate spent the 18-17 with two Democrats who put Republicans into opposition.
Libby was censored on 25 February because of a social media post of hers that identified a minor by name with a photo. Libby’s message pointed out that a transgender track and field athlete had taken first place on a Maine Girls Pole Vault Competition after the athlete participated just a year earlier as a boy.
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“It is a remarkable double standard because there are public photos of this person in many places, on social media and even some posted by his school. And so, yes, this post went viral, but this was a person who participated in a public event on a stage and accepted a championship medal who directly belonged to the girls who stood in the second place.”
Libby has filed a lawsuit against Fecteau and Maine house Clerk Robert Hunt, who wants to restore her mood and speaking rights.
Libby represents more than 9,000 voters in Maine’s House District 90, and six of them have registered the lawsuit as plaintiffs because the censorship has prevented it from carrying out other legislative actions to serve those voters.
“The actions of the speaker not only inflamed me, but the thousands of voters I represent, and that is the bigger whole here; the fact that the speaker, in his eyes, took revenge on me because he doesn’t like what to say,” Libby told Fox News Digital earlier.
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