Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is facing a petition for her recall after sparring bitterly with Donald Trump at the White House last week on the issue of transgender rights.
The change.org petition, organized by local conservative activist Melissa Moulton, already has 12,362 of the 15,000 signatures it is seeking at the time of writing.
But there’s one big problem: Maine is one of 30 American states that does not have any provision to recall a governor.
Arguably the gesture still carries symbolic weight in registering the discontent of locals but it has no actual power to instigate change.
Mills – whose approval rating currently sits at 48 percent, according to Fox 23 Maine – is also being targeted by protesters taking part in a “March Against Mills” at the State Capitol in Augusta on Saturday afternoon, with Moulton again among the organizers.
The hostility has erupted in the wake of her viral clash with the…
