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On 14 March 2018 the Facebook page Really American shared a quote-based meme asserting that a Republican candidate Maine's House of Representatives, Leslie Gibson, had described Parkland school shooting survivor and activist Emma Gonzalez as a skinhead and a lesbian, among other things: The account from which Gibson sent the messages (@gibson_house) was protected as of 15 March 2018, but screenshots of several tweets Gibson had previously posted remained in online circulation: Maine's Sun Journal newspaper reported on the controversy resulting from Gibson's tweet, noting that: Gibson subsequently issued an apology to Gonzalez via Twitter, which became inaccessible when his account was made private. The text of that apology read as follows: A few days later, Gibson announced he was dropping out of the Maine House race:
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