We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country.
Maine got more lousy news from the Federal government this week.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi pulled non-essential federal funding from the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) on Monday in response to the state’s decision to house a male convicted multiple murderer in a women’s prison because he declared that he is transgender.
The inmate is not unknown to our readers. Andrew T. Balcer, who identified as a woman, stabbed both his parents and his dog to death. He was relocated from the men’s to the women’s prison not long after his arrest. [Related: Violent Male Sex Offenders in Canada Have Been ‘Transitioning’ To Get Into Women’s Prisons]
Prior to murdering his parents, Balcer allegedly told them that he wanted to live as a woman and later claimed that their refusal to support the transition led him to murder them.
AG Pam Bondi didn’t mince words.
“We will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country. No more of that,” she added.
California, the wokest drag queen of them all, has been putting male sex offenders in women’s prisons for a while. Just identify as a woman and the government will hook you up with all the rape victims you can manage.[Related: Women’s Health Care Alert: California Women’s Prison Inmates are Being Raped by “Transwomen”]
So, Maine won’t be the only state to lose Federal support for state prisons, while I assume the Feds will keep funding their own.
I wonder if anyone in Trump 2.0 has considered a similar scheme for states or cities that won’t help them detain illegal alien criminals. No more money for jails, courts, County Sheriffs, or local PDs that don’t follow the supremacy of Federal Immigration law and enforcement? A supremacy they can’t shut up about when they are running it.
If they have, I missed it, but I bet Maine would lose out there too (they’ve already got a fight over lost ed funding). And so they should. The Feds should not be funding any of it in any form unless some federal mandate requires states to do things they might otherwise not do.
In New Hampshire, at least on paper, the state cannot force costs on towns without funding them.
If the Feds don’t fund some mandate that costs local governments to enforce or comply, the States should tell the Feds to take a hike. It should work that way at the town level as well, with the goal of eliminating as many of these regulations and rules from the top as possible so voters have more control over their taxes and their lives. If they want whatever ‘It’ is, they can pay for it.
Maine isn’t into that at all. It is following the predictable path of increasingly impoverished progressive tyranny.
To be fair, the Granite State also relies too much on federal money. Most states do, but that “tradition” may change if Team Trump successfully neuters the swamp creature in DC. State and local budget writers and voters will have to make hard choices about their priorities, if he succeeds, which is also how it should be.
