📎 Note: As story 1 will explain, Eryn Gilchrist stepped up to oppose Republican candidate Leslie Gibson, who insulted #ParklandStudentsSpeak 's Emma Gonzalez and story 2 will explain -- he dropped out.
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Story ONE, March 15
This Young Woman Is
Challenging The Maine Republican Who Insulted Emma González
"(Natalie Gontcharova)
On Tuesday, Refinery29
reported that Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate for House
District 57 in Maine, called 18-year-old student activist Emma
González a "skinhead lesbian" on Twitter and
questioned her identity as a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School shooting. We also reported that he was running
unopposed.
Well, not anymore. Eryn
Gilchrist, a 28-year-old Bates College graduate who lives in Greene,
ME, and works for a medical device company, filed her paperwork on
Thursday — the deadline for Democratic and Republican
candidates to file in the state. The election will be held on
November 6, 2018.
According to the local Sun
Journal, the Democrat had never anticipated running for office, but
she felt so "horrified and embarrassed" by Gibson's
statements that she decided to throw her hat into the ring.
"I never thought I
would run for office, and I was perfectly content with just remaining
a member of the community, but after reading Mr. Gibson’s comments
I thought that the people of Greene and Sabattus deserved a
representative who will respect people and try to work through their
differences to make our lives better," Gilchrist said in a
statement issued by the Maine Democratic Party.
"That’s what I
pledge to do if I am lucky enough to be elected, and I look forward
to working hard over the next several months to earn the trust and
support of people throughout my community."
"We could not be
happier to have Eryn run," Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon said
in a statement. "She is a concerned member of her community who
cares about the future of her neighbors — and, like many other
Democrats across Maine, she's now stepping up to help them."
... After Gibson's tweet,
Democrats immediately called for a challenger to him on account of
his statements. ... "
You can read more here
Story TWO, March 16
"Leslie Gibson Drops Out of State House Race
Republican Maine State House candidate Leslie Gibson has announced that he is dropping out of the race for the Maine House District 57 seat...
...Gibson came under fire for his Twitter remarks about two students who survived the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. He wrote that one of the Parkland survivors was a "skinhead lesbian," and the other a "bald-faced liar." (David Hogg was the second student insulted.)
Gibson later apologized to one of the students.
The Sun Journal reports that Gibson also said that “I am not walking away with my head hung low. I am walking away with my head held high.”
Gibson had been running unopposed for the seat, but this week Martin, from Benton, and Democrat Eryn Gilchrist, from Greene, both entered the race. Both candidates cited Gibson's remarks on Twitter as motivation for running.
You can read the story here
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