The Legislature wraps up a disaster of a session, a public hearing on the Protect Girls’ Sports referendum happens, and Graham Platner is very sorry for what he said. Again.
This week on the Pine Tree Pulse, Matt, Jake and Garrick tackle the end of the legislative session in Augusta, and detail the very long list of bad policies and bad ideas that have now become law, including a historically awful state budget which contains a now infamous income tax hike.
We also get into the upcoming “Protect Girls’ Sports” referendum, the ballot language chosen by the Secretary of State, and the public hearing on the question from earlier this week. Maine Policy Institute has a tool which will allow you to submit your public comment on the question, which can be found here. Our suggested language for the question to be changed to is:
“Do you want to define sports participation and access to private facilities in schools by biological sex as recorded on a student’s original birth certificate?”
We also return (again) to the Mills vs. Platner Senate race. Janet Mills is talking to tiny crowds and Graham Platner is once again apologizing for saying something offensive. But the buzz this week comes from an AI ad of Platner released by the NRSC, which might be kicking off a new type of negative campaigning.
We round things out by briefly talking about the downfall of Eric Swalwell.
All this and more on this week’s Pulse.