Now , HOW did I know that letter would be at the end of the sponsors name?
We fought for years to get a Fatherhood Commission established in Maine to look at, among other things, the problems facing divorced dads. We were viscously opposed by the radical fems in the Maine legislature, who comprise a small group of about 10 or 12 women who seem to spend most of their day as being "outraged" about something or other. After hundreds of people testified in favor of forming this commission, the legislature approved it. While fatherhood commissions have done well in other states, Mike Saxl, at the time the radical lefty leader of the Maine House, appointed Deb Simpson to co-chair the commission - to assure it did not do anything. I sat in on the meetings and Simpson would smirk at men testifying about losing their children, and was generally rude and disparaging to them. When a matter came up of making sure that schools gave divorced dads accesstokids' records when those men had the legal right to see those records, Simpson declared" I would NEVER let my kids' dad have access to their school records!"
Her husband is involved in the Maine Democratic party and was recently chastised by the Democratic leadership for running a particularly insulting cartoon about a House Republican on the democratic website.
Maine legislators are part-time, and Deb Simpson's full time job is as a waitress. Noah Adams of National Public Radio did a series about a year ago where he traveled cross-country and interviewed "average" working men and women. He stopped in Lewiston, Maine to interview "average" waitress - who happened to be Representative Deb Simpson and her co-workers. Bag job.
Anyway, I think the loopy left is trying to bring this character up through the political ranks. Watch out!