Maine state candidate who called Parkland student 'skinhead lesbian' drops out of race

[RandySF]

A Republican running for the Maine state legislature is dropping out of the race following criticism for calling one of the survivors of last month’s mass shooting at a Florida high school a “skinhead lesbian.”

Leslie Gibson announced on Friday that he was ending his campaign for the Maine House of Representatives, the Portland Press Herald reported.

The former candidate said he made the decision after talking it over with friends and family, calling it “the best thing for everybody.”

“I am not walking away with my head hung low. I am walking away with my head held high,” Gibson said, according to the Press Herald.

The Maine resident had come under fire for his comments about survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting.

“There is nothing about this skinhead lesbian that impresses me and there is nothing that she has to say unless you’re a frothing at the mouth moonbat,” Gibson tweeted in response to a report about Parkland student Emma González.


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/378874-maine-state-candidate-who-called-parkland-student-skinhead-lesbian-drops

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. A pig republican was running unopposed

Makes a disgusting comment about an underaged girl, prompts a Dem to FINALLY run against him, he drops out, now that Dem is running unopposed?

Could anyone make this up?

[SoCalMusicLover]

2. "I Am Not Walking Away With My Head Hung Low"

“I am not walking away with my head hung low. I am walking away with my head held high,” Gibson said, according to the Press Herald.

Are you fucking kidding me? No need to compound your stupidity by making another ridiculous statement.

[3catwoman3]

3. He ought to drop out of the human race.

And, he is walking away with his head UP his ass, not held high. What a creep.

[Cha]

7. Really, 3catwoman3

[brettdale]

4. He showed the world

What the republicans really think.

[ProudLib72]

5. I don't give two shits if your head is high or low

Just so long as you leave, you fucking monster!

[Cha]

6. Didn't want to be dragged through

his self inflicted mud, eh.. on his own petard?

Of course, Les think his head is "high" because he's the type that spewed that about Emma in the first place.

Mahalo, RSF

[Leghorn21]

8. As far as I know, young Eryn Gilchrist is still in the race!:

One of two Florida teenagers criticized by a Sabattus politician issued a blunt call Wednesday for someone to make sure Republican Leslie Gibson faces an opponent in this year’s state House race.

“Who wants to run against this hate-loving politician?” asked David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. “I don’t care what party. JUST DO IT.”

Democrat Eryn Gilchrist of Greene is doing just that. She filed the required paperwork Thursday to run for the 57th District seat.

She said she never anticipated running for office but felt so “horrified and embarrassed” at the thought of Gibson representing her that she decided to jump in.


https://www.pressherald.com/2018/03/15/florida-teen-leader-denounces-leslie-gibson-as-a-hate-loving-politician/