A Republican candidate for the Maine Home of Representatives was criticized this week after sharing a debunked conspiracy principle concerning the Texas college shooter.
Heather Anne Sprague, who’s operating for Home District 43, on Wednesday posted a false declare on Fb that the Robb Elementary Faculty shooter was a transgender particular person “brainwashed” by liberal academics and that the capturing was the end result.
Nineteen youngsters ages 8 to 11 and two educators have been killed within the Tuesday college capturing in Uvalde, Texas, the deadliest within the U.S. because the December 2021 bloodbath at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty in Newtown, Connecticut.
On Thursday, she posted an apology, writing partly, “I let my concern and a few false info get the very best of me.”
Her opponent, Democratic incumbent Ann Matlack, mentioned in a press release that, “To suggest that these in that faculty introduced it on themselves is irresponsible and callous.”
Each candidates will face off this fall.
Home District 43 represents Cushing, Thomaston and different components of the midcoast.
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