[khnyny]

As you’ve pointed out, the practical health concerns should have been enough to squash these proposals. This whole situation at King Middle School just doesn’t make sense.

Children are not ward’s of the state - they have parents. These new proposals are extremely intrusive and violate parental rights and are dangerous for the health and welfare of these children.

[como_1996]

Here is the political make up for 5 of the 7 who voted in favor of this.

Susan Hopkins: Member of the Green Independent Party. She was endorsed by the Lavender Greens and self-identifies as bisexual. Worked as a lawyer in the student legal services department at the University of Southern Maine and has a private practice in immigration law and also does some family advocacy cases.

Rebecca Minnick: Member of the Green Independent Party. Plays in a band called Arms for Ex-lovers.

Peter Eglinton: Democrat and former employee of the White House Office of Management & Budget.

Lori Gramlich: Democrat State Committee Member. A major supporter of John Edwards.

Ellen Achorn: Democrat