This blog originally appeared at LGBTQ NATION.

In 2022, before her indictment, she referred to Pete Buttigieg as a “weak little girl.”

A former high-ranking state Republican official, indicted in an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, used an anti-gay slur to insult a Democratic lawmaker. Meshawn Maddock, who led the Michigan Republican Party until her recent indictment for trying to shift Michigan’s electoral votes to Donald Trump instead of President Joe Biden, is now making offensive remarks on social media.

Maddock’s slur was in response to a post on X from Michigan state Rep. Jason Morgan (D), an openly gay lawmaker and vice chair of the state’s Democratic Party. Morgan had shared a picture of the Michigan congressional delegation at the DNC last Friday, where they were smiling and holding American flags.

Morgan responded by publicly calling her out in a thread.

“As a proud gay man who loves his husband, these hateful taunts don’t undermine my Pride, but to countless LGBTQ young people across the USA, hateful rhetoric can lead to depression and suicide,” he wrote. He followed up by sharing a photo from his wedding.

Maddock has a history of using homophobic slurs to attack LGBTQ+ politicians. In 2022, while still serving as chair of the Michigan Republican Party, she called Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a “weak little girl” after learning that he and his husband, Chasten, were purchasing property in Michigan.

“If she wants to talk about little girls, Chasten and I are raising a little girl and a little boy. And we are raising them to have better values than the chairwoman,” Buttigieg responded when asked about her remarks. “The rest is politics.”

Maddock was indicted last year, alongside 15 other Trump supporters, for their role in a plot to help Trump secure the presidency. The plan involved falsifying a certificate claiming Trump had won Michigan and sending it to Congress in hopes of securing the state’s electoral votes for him.

The fake certificate falsely claimed that the 16 electoral voters had met in the Michigan Capitol on December 14, 2020, when in fact, the building was closed, and Biden’s electors had actually convened there.

Allegedly, phone records show Maddock communicating with coconspirators about the plot and how to keep it secret. She faced eight felony counts in the indictment. Maddock pled not guilty and opted not to seek another term as state party chair in February 2023.