Michigan GOP co-chair calls gay Transportation secretary ‘weak little girl’

LANSING, Mich. — 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” in a Sunday tweet. Maddock’s post drew immediate criticism from Democrats with state Rep. Samantha Steckloff, D-Farmington Hills, calling on Republicans “to stand up against this garbage” and to ask for Maddock’s “immediate removal.” “The @migop chair chose today to raise homophobic and bigoted attacks against Michiganders,” Steckloff tweeted. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South B…

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