A group of Democrats wants a state Republican lawmaker to resign over comments in which she compared vaccine mandates to the Nazi doctor known as the "Angel of Death'' who performed experiments on Jews.
A letter called Rep. Heidi Sampson's remarks "wildly unacceptable and inappropriate.''
“Do I need to remind you of the late 1930s and into the ’40s in Germany and the experiments with Josef Mengele? What was it? A shot? These were crimes against humanity,” Sampson said during an anti-mandate rally on Aug. 17 in front of the State House.
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The state lawmaker made her comments several days after Gov. Janet Mills’ administration announced that health care workers in Maine would be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 1.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Baldacci, of Bangor, called the comparison of healthcare mandates to the Nazi Germany "an utter disrespect" to Holocaust survivors and the Jewish community.