Chuck Ellis sits down with Leyland Streiff, primary petitioner for the Maine Girl Dads’ Protect Girls Sports and Spaces ballot initiative. After collecting more than 80,000 signatures, the campaign says thousands of valid signatures were thrown out on technicalities, including 1,400 from one circulator who missed a checkbox, leaving it about 500 short.
They discuss the federal court fight to get the initiative on the November ballot, the role of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, polling on single-sex sports and spaces, the opposition’s funding, and Title IX.
