Mills Considers Paying Climate Activists to Protest

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$5 gas got you down? Well Janet Mills has just the job for you… According to a new report, Governor Mills is considering paying left-wing climate activists to protest.

Seems like a great use of taxpayer dollars.

Take a look:

Maine governor’s climate council mulls paying people to attend meetings
Fox News
Jessica Chasmar
6/7/22
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maine-governors-climate-council-paying-attend-meetings

The Maine Climate Council created by Gov. Janet Mills is considering a proposal to pay a stipend to “disadvantaged” and “overburdened” Maine residents to attend meetings to ensure “procedural equity” in the government planning process to address climate change.

The council’s Equity Subcommittee, which was created last year as part of the state’s four-year climate action plan, has submitted its 2022 report, which states that “all state policy, program and other decision-making processes should enable equitable participation from disadvantaged and historically underserved communities.”

In order to ensure equitable participation, the subcommittee recommends providing “stipends to frontline and disadvantaged community members for their time, which can help members of these communities take time off work or away from other critical activities to participate in decision-making processes,” as well as “providing transportation and child care in order to allow overburdened Maine people to attend meetings and participate in climate decision processes.”

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