"Unfazed," Mills Disregards National Criticism: "Why Should I?"
Claims other Republicans "thanked him" for his vote
Mills has received mostly thanks on his vote from his colleagues, including other Republican senators not on the committee, he said.
Louisiana Illuminator reporting just moments ago:
State Sen. Fred Mills is the latest target of national conservative activists after bucking the Republican Party by voting to kill a proposed ban on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth but he’s not worried about it.
“Why should I?,” Mills said in an interview after he broke a tie vote Wednesday in the Louisiana Senate Health and Welfare Committee. “They don’t live in District 22. They don’t have a 337 area code.”
“I didn’t run for office to serve those people,” added Mills, a GOP member and pharmacist who represents portions of four rural parishes and New Iberia.
Mills, chair of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, started receiving immediate backlash on social media after casting the deciding vote on proposed ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors, killing the bill for the year.
“Fred Mills has sided with the butchers and groomers,” Matt Walsh, a conservative commentator tweeted to his nearly 2 million followers. “He will regret it. This is the biggest mistake of his political career, and also the end of his career. He’s going to be infamous and disgraced by his own base. We’ll make sure of that.”
Mills is term-limited and hasn’t indicated he will seek another elected office
Greg Price, who works with the State Freedom Caucus Network, which just established an ultra-consrervative caucus within the Louisiana legislature, shared with his 300,000 Twitter followers that Mills has received donations from pharmaceutical companies.
“One look at his donors shows massive contributions from Big Pharma, which gets rich off giving these drugs to children,” Price tweeted.
Other social media users pointed out that Mills had appeared in drag in a series of commercials for his pharmacy.
Mills, who does not use social media but heard about the posts from others at the State Capitol, was unfazed.
Complicating this serious issue further, Mills said that other Republicans “thanked him for his vote.” This reported by Piper Hutchinson:
Mills bucked his party to cast the deciding vote to kill a proposed ban on gender affirming healthcare for trans youth, which upset many national conservatives. But Mills said GOP senators in Louisiana thanked him for his vote.
Is Mills lying? Because if this is true, the state Republican Party does not understand the people of Louisiana very well.
Our source in the state GOP assures me the senate was ready to pass this bill… so Mills might be a liar and dragging down his party along with siding with transgenderists, too.
Again, we encourage you to reach out by email or call to the party and to Mills:
The state GOP: info@lagop.com
Senator Fred Mills: millsf@legis.la.gov
Mills’ disturbing and arrogant response certainly raises issues. He’s claiming his only obligation is to the people of District 22, the 337 area code. But his vote has a statewide impact!
As transgenderists are now calling Louisiana “an oasis,” would they all move to only New Iberia? No, they’d likely move here to New Orleans!
Fred Mills, bank president and pharmacist, is sticking his thumb in your eye and mocking you as he does it.
This betrayal cannot stand.
A wolf in drag sheep clothing.