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Shenna Bellows apparently forgot about the Golden Rule of politics: Do unto others as they do unto you.
As you may perhaps have heard, Bellows is the Maine secretary of state responsible for unilaterally taking Donald Trump’s off the state’s presidential primary ballot. That decision came on Thursday night.
It only took one day for state Republicans to start impeachment efforts that might take her out of her position.
According to The Associated Press, at least one state GOP legislator has already announced his intention to pursue articles of impeachment for the move, which comes despite the fact that Democrats control the body.
State Rep. John Andrews said that the move was “hyper-partisanship on full display” and has sent notice to the State Revisor’s Office that he’s taking the first steps toward impeachment.
“I wish to impeach Secretary Bellows on the grounds that she is barring an American citizen and 45th President of the United States, who is convicted of no crime or impeachment, their right to appear on a Maine Republican Primary ballot,” he wrote in the letter, according to the Portland Press Herald.
In an interview with Fox News, Andrews noted that “in Maine, the people do not elect the secretary of state, attorney general or treasurer.
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