Brewer Third-Graders Visit Augusta To Support State Crustacean Bill

Students from Brewer Community School testified in Augusta Wednesday as lawmakers considered a bill that would make the American Lobster Maine's state crustacean.

Nearly 100 third-graders visited the State House as the State and Local Government Committee took up the bill, the Bangor Daily News reports.

The panel unanimously voted in favor of the bill after hearing testimony from four students.

“I think our students’ power of persuasion was really good,” teacher Cherrie MacInnes told the BDN. “Kids know how to talk their parents into giving them what they want. They took their knowledge of what they learned about lobsters, the process of a bill becoming a law and they put them together.”

MacInnes hopes the students can watch streaming video of Gov. Paul LePage signing the bill into law if it clears the Legislature.

The measure was proposed by the governor.