MAGA ex-GOP party chair calls gay lawmaker a “f*g” on social media

A former high-ranking state Republican official who has been indicted in an alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election used an anti-gay slur to describe a gay Democratic lawmaker.

Meshawn Maddock used to be the head of the Michigan Republican Party until shortly after she was charged in connection to a scheme to make Michigan’s votes go to Donald Trump in 2020 instead of President Joe Biden, who won the state. Now she is now using slurs on social media.

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She also ranted about “chicks with d**ks.”

She was responding to a post on X from Michigan state Rep. Jason Morgan (D), who is an out gay lawmaker and the vice chair of the state’s Democratic Party. Morgan posted a picture of the Michigan congressional delegation at the DNC last Friday, where they were smiling and holding American flags.

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“F*gs and hags,” Maddock responded. X responded by reducing the visibility of her post due to a potential violation of the platform’s Hateful Conduct policy. However, the post has not been deleted by the platform.

Morgan responded by calling her out in a thread.

“As a proud gay man who loves his husband, these hateful taunts don’t undermine my Pride, but to countless LGBTQ young people across the USA, hateful rhetoric can lead to depression and suicide,” he wrote. He then shared a picture from his wedding.

On behalf of those LGBTQ Kids, I have one message for bullies like Meshawn & Donald Trump: #WereNotGoingBack to an America where hate and division win.

The choice is clear: We Choose Freedom from Hate. We choose @KamalaHarris, for the people. pic.twitter.com/3vMAVIoLMb

— Jason Morgan (@JasonMorganMI) August 24, 2024

Maddock has a history of attacking LGBTQ+ politicians with homophobic taunts. In 2022, when she still had her position with the state party, she called Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a “weak little girl” when she heard that he and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, were buying property in Michigan.

“If she wants to talk about little girls, Chasten and I are raising a little girl and a little boy. And we are raising them to have better values than the chairwoman,” Buttigieg responded when asked about her comments. “The rest is politics.”

Last year, Maddock was indicted along with 15 other Trump supporters in a plot to help Trump get elected: falsify a certificate that said that Trump actually won the state of Michigan, send it to Congress, and hope that Trump would get Michigan’s electoral votes.

The fake certificate said that the 16 electoral voters had met in the Michigan Capitol that day, even though it was actually closed on December 14, 2020. Biden’s electoral voters actually convened in the state capitol building.

Phone records allegedly show Maddock texting with the coconspirators about their plot and how to keep it a secret. She faced eight felony counts in the original indictment. She has pled not guilty, and in February 2023, she chose not to run for another term as chair of the state party.

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