Four of Maine’s largest companies are no longer listed as financial sponsors of Equality Maine, a non-profit that has advocated for legalizing elective late-term abortions and sex changes for minors.
The changes to Equality Maine’s list of sponsors follow a June 2 report from the Maine Wire showing how several of Maine’s largest companies donate money to the radical left-wing group.
At the time, Hannaford, LL Bean, Central Maine Power, and General Dynamics, parent company of Bath Iron Works, were listed as sponsors.
However, as of Friday, none of those companies appeared on the organization’s “Our Sponsors” page.
The organization also deleted a page that listed all of the legislative items it was supporting in the 131st Legislature, including LD 1619, the bill that legalized elective late-term abortions in Maine.
Some of the items EqualityMaine backed are still available publicly on a May 13 archive of the page. Social media posts from the organization also detail its political advocacy for far left policies.
In the recently concluded legislative session, Equality Maine advocated for a slate of proposals that would expand minors’ access to sex-change drugs and surgeries, including LD 535, a bill that will allow 16- and 17-year-olds to get sex-change drugs over their parents’ objections.
The group has also encouraged lawmakers to pass LD 1735, a bill that would prevent Maine law enforcement from reuniting a child with their parents if they were brought into Maine for sex-change drugs or surgeries.
It’s unclear whether the four companies asked to be removed from the sponsorship list or if the changes were just routine updates.
Equality Maine operates both a 501(c)3 and a 501(c)4.
Donations to the 501(c)3 are tax deductible and there are limits on how the money can be used to influence politics through lobbying and campaigns.
Donations to a 501(c)4 are not tax deductible, and those donations can legally fund more explicitly political work.
The website does not include information about which side of the organization a sponsor has donated to, or how much.
Equality Maine’s current sponsors include Bangor Savings Bank, Wex, Bank of America, Coffee by Design, Diversified Communications, Five County Credit Union, Town and Country Federal Credit Union, Martin’s Point Health Care, MaineHealth, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Gardner Real Estate Group, cPort Credit Union, Berman & Simmons Trial Attorneys, AthenaHealth, Norway Savings Bank, and TD Bank.
1.) The damage is done. Thorough and complete. The most extreme and long-term legislation was forced through.
2.) Companies are starting to see “pushback”, and investors are making sure profits dont take a hit when people stop handing their ca$h to fund subversive and destructive policies. “We’re apolitical now, let’s forget about the past and keep spending.” As a side note: Shaws is way better,llbean is still overpriced, cmp is destroying Maine woodland and cheated to overcome the will of the people. General Dynamics provides tools to bomb civilian babies in desert sh*tholes.
To Maine Wire: Do some digging. They took their name down, and will most likely find a proxy for donations. They made a deal with the devil, and that contract has no exit clause.
Thanks for the list of companies to boycott.
Too little too late…the damage has been done. The fabric of our beloved state is being systematically destroyed by those we elected to work for, and not against Maine taxpayers. Maybe by keeping eyes wide open, Mainers can influence big businesses to stick to doing their jobs, or risk being boycotted. Ask Bud Light, Target, Ben and Jerry’s…
This whole thing against our posterity we are pledged unitedly under God…to secure the blessings of liberty to…no joke,Uncle Joe! And who is guilty ..who is implicated…who is self-represented by our safe and legal law auschwitzing of 60+ million?? It is us. We the people..of,by,and for! Our own on-going Holocaust.
Thanks for this important reporting. I won’t feel so dirty picking up my prescriptions at Hannaford anymore. I wasn’t aware that my bank was part of this mess and I hope they will reconsider because I can’t continue doing business with them if they don’t. Makes me so sad as I have banked with them for decades and have long standing relationships with the people there. This week I’m interviewing other local banks. Awareness is everything. Business should not need to be in bed with government in order to succeed.
OMG !! Right wing snowflakes clutching their pearls! The clown car misinformation network. None of this is true.
Yikes!
Thats the laziest troll post ive seen all week. Possibly ever. Fact check me or get back in the kitchen birthing human! Shouldn’t you people be doing victory laps around the fetus harvesting center, or high-fiving a genitally mutilated child? Now go write a blog about disarming citizens because black youths are spraying birthday parties with bullets and the benefits of defunding the pigs. You folx are pants on head, i swear…
Meds for maynard, please. Stat.
Marie,
You write “none of this is true”.
Certainly the legislation proposed and passed is true. Certainly the lists of donors is true.
What can you possibly be stating, please?
Hannaford supports drag queen story hour to young children. Groomers are everywhere. It is hard to know where to shop with all of the pedo businesses around our state.
quit voting for Democrats!!!! it is the only way to counter the Nazi funded organizations that George Soros and company find tantalizing…it is too late for a lot of these people and they cannot or will not see the damage they are causing on our children and grandchildren.. take away parents rights? is this Nazi Germany or N. Korea? or Russia? or Ukraine? keep candidates off the ballot on hearsay, restrict the rights of parents, try to put health centers in schools to further their perverse immoral ideology, censure politicians they disagree with? pathetic and i don’t know how these people sleep at night