Maine State Legislature voted for her half -yearly budget on Thursday night, but the session was delayed by a long -lasting debate about the transient athlete displacement and censorship of the Republican rep. Laurel Libby.
Libby, censored by Maine’s democratic majority and speaks Ryan Fecteau to a social media post identified a minor transport athlete, suggested several changes to the state budget via a logging hole in state regulatory policy.
Libby submitted 10 floor changes to the budget on Tuesday before the deadline to do so, which is not prevented by a mistrust. So Libby was allowed to talk and present these changes during Thursday’s session. One of these changes was not related to the budget, but was a proposal to keep trans athletes out of girls sports.
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But when Libby spoke to present his amendments, several Democrats protested and began a debate with Republican representatives.
“During the four -minute presentation process, there ended up being a floor debate … between Republicans and Democrats about my distrust. Then there was essentially another vote on mistrust, which confirmed the Democrats’ obligation to dampen my voice and my voice,” Libby said.
Maine State House at Dawn, January 3, 2024, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
In addition to Libby’s proposal to ban trans athletes from girls sports, she suggested several budget bills that would have lowered taxes and public spending. These proposals included the abolition of a tax on solar energy, the abolition of the Free Community College, and the abolition of a recent salary tax of 1%.
But Libby’s changes were not even considered and the Democrats moved to get the changes indefinitely exposed.
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“I was unable to talk to them, to go in for them and push the advantage they would bring to Maine people,” Libby said.
Ultimately, the budget that went by did not include Republican input. Maine House approved the $ 11.3 billion spending plan with a poll of 74-67 along party lines. The Senate adopted it 18-17 with two Democrats who took over Republicans in opposition.
Libby was censored on February 25 because of a social media post of hers that identified a minor by name with a photo. Libby’s post pointed out that a transsexual course and field athlete had taken first place on a Maine Girls Pole Vault competition after the athlete competed as a boy just a year earlier.
“It is a remarkable double standard as there are in many places public photos of this person, on social media and even some that were sent by his school. And yes, this post became viral, but this was a person who participated in a public event that publicly stood on a podium and accepted a championship medal that caused girls to stand in second place,” Libby previously said Pakinomist Digital.
Libby filed a lawsuit against Fecteau and Maine House Clerk Robert Hunt, who seeks to get her voting rights to be restored.
Libby represents more than 9,000 voters in Maine’s House District 90, and six of them have signed the trial as plaintiffs because distrust has prevented her from performing other legislative actions to serve these voters.
“The speaker’s actions not only released me, but released the thousands of constituents that I represent, and that is the bigger picture here; the fact that the speaker in his eyes reciprocated against me because he does not like what I have to say,” Libby told Pakinomist Digital.