Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Mini-Post: Way To Go Maine!

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Mini-Post: Way To Go Maine!

Go Maine!

The governor tell Trump... Stop picking on us and get your own house it order!

Janet Mills unloads on Donald Trump after he demands apology
Bangor Daily News
by Kathleen O'Brien and Billy Kobin
March 24, 2025

Gov. Janet Mills doubled down Monday, saying she stands for “the rule of law” after President Donald Trump asked her over the weekend to apologize for their February confrontation over Maine’s transgender athlete policies.

Without referring to Trump by name, Mills also said “if the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying because they can’t get basic, life-saving health care in states across this country.”

Mills, Maine’s first female governor and former attorney general, also rattled off other suggestions for Trump, such as how he should protect Social Security and Medicare for elderly women amid Trump, his “government efficiency” czar Elon Musk and GOP lawmakers eyeing the programs in their ongoing efforts to cut federal jobs and programs.

She will not back down to Trump & Company!

Mills said Monday that she does not communicate with public officials “by social media.” While criticizing Trump’s tariffs on Canada, she also noted the Constitution says the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed” and that it does not allow Trump “to make laws out of gold cloth or by tweet or Instagram posts or press release or executive order.”

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“Let’s talk about the price of gas and the price of bread and automobiles,” Mills said. “Nothing’s going down. Everything’s going up.”

Way to go governor!

1 comment:

Susan3/28/25, 3:16 AM
I saw that on the news. I visited Maine for one day in 2008 while on a cruise. That governor has guts and brains!
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