Mich. GOP State Co-Chairwoman Trolls Pete Buttigieg in Homophobic Tweet
In a Sunday tweet, Meshawn Maddock, the co-chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, labeled Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. Transportation Secretary and a gay former officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, a "weak little girl," reports the Detroit News.
"We're so blessed this weak little girl moved to Michigan! Looks like he's bringing all his California Dreaming here with him." She did so in a retweet in response to a recent interview Buttigieg did about the shift away from gas-powered vehicles.
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a 2020 Democratic candidate for president, and his husband, Chasten, recently moved to the Traverse City area, where Chasten is originally from.
Maddock and a Michigan Republican Party spokesman did not immediately respond Monday morning to requests for comment about Maddock's description of Buttigieg as a "weak little girl."
"Buttigieg served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, taking a leave of absence from the South Bend mayor's office for deployment to Afghanistan in 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation," adds the Detroit News.
Maddock describes herself on Twitter as "Ultra MAGA" and has been a co-chair of the state party since 2021," reports the Advocate. "Prior to this, she had made national headlines for organizing a protest to halt the state's stay-at-home order which led to heavily armed militiamen outside the Michigan Statehouse. She also 'helped fill 19 buses to Washington for the Jan. 6 rally," according to the New York Times and spoke at a Stop the Steal rally. In April, Paddock's husband Matt Maddock who was a State representative, was ousted from the state caucus for improper behavior."
Maddock has received more than 2,000 responses, many of them calling her for being homophobic and calling for her ouster.