Most polls have former Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D) leading in her quest to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Gideon’s liberal policies have endeared her to voters in the state’s progressive bastions like Portland. It remains to be seen how Maine voters as a whole will judge Gideon’s more controversial decisions in comparison to Collins’ relative moderation. Perhaps most problematic for Gideon was her decision to kill two bills in the state legislature outlawing female genital mutilation.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Yuichiro Kakutani reports:
Gideon leveraged her leadership position in the Democrat-controlled legislature to kill two separate bills that would have criminalized the practice of severing the clitoris of infant girls and sewing their vaginas shut. Instead, the Democrat supported a different law that would have funnelled $150,000 to her political allies to educate Mainers about the practice instead of criminalizing it, according to a former state legislator who spearheaded the push to stop the mutilation.
Under Gideon’s leadership, Maine Democrats argued that the bill was racist toward the state’s large immigrant community from Somalia, a country where the practice is “nearly universal” according to the United Nations. The Democrats also argued that the practice rarely takes place in Maine and is already outlawed by existing federal and local laws.
Gideon’s efforts have helped make Maine one of only 12 states that have not banned female genital mutilation. Such a legacy threatens to complicate her cultivated image as a champion of women’s rights, one built on her consistent support for abortion access and the #MeToo movement. The image strategy has paid off, translating into hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and outside money support from national pro-abortion groups. Gideon did not respond to a request for comment.
F. A. Cole, a survivor of female genital mutilation who testified before the Maine legislature, expressed deep frustration for the bill’s failure. “The Democrats, especially the Speaker of the House Sara Gideon, did everything she could in her power to just kill this bill,” she told the Washington Free Beacon. “I could not understand why.”
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this sounds like disfiguring small children as they murder others and sell their body parts , America we need to stop this and punish the guilty with capital punishment
Wow, I can’t believe Kamala Harris wants to DEFUND the Pentagon. Don’t these Democrats realize our police and Pentagon protect us from foreigners wanting to attack us. Democrats could care less if we the ppl die cuz they have their own security that we pay for. This Is disgusting. Vote RED OR AMERICA IS DEAD AMEN?????????????????????♀️?♂️?????
really she,s a piece of crap
Don’t you people understand that these evil Democrats are doing Voter Fraud in Maine to put Sara Gideon into the Democrat Senate seat. They are and have been cheating at the polls. Wake up.
time to sever her clit and cut off anything else these asses have
and sew her mouth shut!
Deport all muslims, citizens or not, at once!