Anti-Defamation League calls on Maine lawmaker to apologize after comparing Mills to Nazi doctor
The New England chapter of the Anti-Defamation League is calling on Republican state Rep. Heidi Sampson to apologize for comparing Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and her sister to German doctors who performed experiments on Jews during the Holocaust.
Sampson appeared at a State House protest this week prompted by the governors recent announcement requiring health care workers in Maine to get vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct. 1.
Mills said the requirement is aimed at protecting the health of patients, noting that health care workers are already required to receive a battery of vaccinations for mumps, measles, chickenpox and other transmissible diseases.
But Sampson likened the COVID vaccine requirement to experiments performed by Nazi doctors on Jews during the Holocaust and likened the governor to Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death, or Joseph Goebbels, an acolyte of Adolf Hitler.
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